Death By Love

I had previously mentioned Mark Driscoll’s upcoming book, Death By Love as one the books I am most looking forward to reading in the remainder of the year.  Well, a website for the book was launched recently and if you view the trailer (since when did books have trailers?) you might see why I think [...]

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Back to blogging.

It’s been a while since I have written anything and to my readers, both of you, I am sorry.  Vacation and sermon prep. had taken most of my free time.  I have a few things to write about and hope to do so in the next couple of days.

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Saturdays (and Mondays) Are For Shalom

OK, so I am bit late on this one.  I was away from the computer most of the day.  I was working to spread shalom in my home.
This week I want to share a slice of shalom that has really encouraged me.  My wife, Jill, loves to garden but more than that, she loves to [...]

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Heaven Is Not My Home – Chapter 18

Between Two Worlds
“This world is our home: we are made to live here. It has been devastated by sin, but God plans to put it right.” (p 247) And that is how Marshall begins the final chapter. The focus, our focus, he contends should not be so much on the here and now [...]

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Heaven Is Not My Home – Chapter 16

The New Creation
I enjoyed this chapter and found it helpful in thinking through some aspects of the new earth. Marshall really focuses on discussing two points in this chapter: 1) our bodily resurrection, like Jesus’, will be physical and 2) the meaning of 2 Peter 3:7. While he does cover some other subjects [...]

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Moving Conversations to the Gospel

Joe Thorn posted a very helpful article on transitioning everyday conversations to the Gospel.

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Saturdays Are For Shalom

Here’s a brief quote I read today in the Harvie Conn book I’m finishing up this week:
Jesus, the anointed of the Spirit, enters as forerunner into the Age of the Spirit, and his life of prayer manifests [sic] this act of entering in.  He prays ‘through the Holy Spirit’ (Luke 10:21).  Prayer becomes God’s eschatological [...]

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Serving and Growing Within the Church

A couple days ago I read this quote from a burnt-out church volunteer. “When they [the church] see a leader, they hook you. They say, ‘Here is an executive. She’s in our church — let’s use her and make her do these things.’ Before long, it’s ‘Will you teach Sunday school or [...]

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Spurgeon is the Man Week Recap

Mark Driscoll completed the “Spurgeon is the Man Week” with this post last Monday.
The post contains all the week’s post and a list of “shout outs” (yours truly is near the bottom of the list). If you like Spurgeon (like I do), I encourage you to check out the posts.

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