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Just Showed Up For My Own Life

Our church hosts what they call “First Friday Films,” which happens (usually) on the first Friday of every month. A documentary film with a global message is typ...

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Music, Justice, Movies

Affections: How Important Are They?

Have you ever noticed that the Bible commands you to feel something? Here are some texts: “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord” (Rom...

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Priorities?

"If the affections of the soul are not supremely fixed on God, and if our dominant desire and primary goal is not to possess God's favor and to promote His glory,...

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The Dawkins Confusion

Naturalism ad absurdum. Read a rebuttal of Dawkins by Alvin Plantinga.The God Delusion is an extended diatribe against religion in general and belief in God in p...

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Culture, Books

Beholding Beauty

Apparently, this article from the Washington Post has been heavily discussed in the Blogosphere for the past several weeks. The Desiring God blog and my friend N...

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Music, Christian Living, Culture

Humility in Ministry, Part 3

Jonathan Edwards writes (Religious Affections, Yale, 312-314):The essence of evangelical humiliation consists in such humility, as becomes a creature, in itself e...

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Humility in Ministry, Part 2

C.H. Spurgeon writes (Lectures to My Students, Zondervan, 331):Have you not by this time discovered that flattery is as injurious as it is pleasant? It softens t...

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Humility in Ministry, Part 1

Sin is sin. Blatant immoral sin certainly leaves behind a mess; simply look at the many prominent Christian ministers who have shipwrecked on the rock of sexual ...

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The Ringing Bell

Derek Webb releases a new album and graphic novel tie-in on May 1. Yes, you read that correctly, "graphic novel tie-in." The album is titled The Ringing Bell.

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Music

1 Samuel 12:19-25

I preached my second of two sermons for preaching class on February 25, 2007. The assignment was to preach on any Old Testament text.Right click here and choose ...

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1 Samuel, Sermon
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