Month: September 2008
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What are you tethered to?
It’s an odd question, using an old image (unless you are a tetherball player) but John Piper has a great piece on the Desiring God website that Jonathan B tipped me off to. Here is a sample… The Bible tethers us to reality. We are not free to think and speak whatever might enter our…
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Scary time of year…
With Halloween a mere five weeks away, I am reminded of a trend in some churches to create a Hell House sort of haunted house experience for the sake of evangelism. Honestly, I personally find this sort of approach frightening. It seems on the one extreme we see Christians watering down the gospel and trying…
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This is creepy…
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Mental Chewing Gum
Many years ago, as a young youth pastor, God impressed something on me about how I viewed my work. In looking at a long list of church kids we were not reaching and then thinking about the massive number of unreached students at local schools, the temptation was to go after the unchurched. In some…
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Another book
Total ChurchTim Chester & Steve Timmis I have been hearing (and reading just a little bit) about the concept of missional church for some time. It strikes me as both refreshing and obvious. I suspect I have been influenced by people who think this way without even being aware of it. Anyway, I mentioned this…
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Keswick Youth
One of the highlights of my sabbatical was the opportunity to serve on the youth team at Keswick Convention. Jane and I volunteered when we realized that serving was the only way we were going to be able to find a bed in the town for the convention. Keswick Convention has a very long history…
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The New Study Bible
I gave a plug at Infusion for the ESV Study Bible due out in October. I even handed out a sample from it. You can learn more by visiting their website and checking things out yourself. From what I read, it looks like this will set a whole new standard for study Bibles!
