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Dec 8, 2010, 12:10 pm
”We often come to God and ask for the comforts of earth, and God gives them to us along with grief. He has prepared the Heavens for us, but we exchange this for rummaging in the earthly puddle.” Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2010, 11:59 am
"Goo goo for Gaga? Of course not. But the tough question is this: to what extent is this gagafication already at work in the church? Indeed, is the church already gagafied? To what extent has the assumption that youth has the answers captured the imagination of our churche... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2010, 10:57 am
It’s okay to admit that you’re weak: "
“Contrary to cultural opinion, it’s okay to admit that you’re weak, God’s grace is sufficient, but it’s not okay to fake strength!”
- Paul David Tripp, Twitter post Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2010, 12:38 pm
Copenhagen's Bicycle Butlers - Park Illegally and get your chain oiled and tires pumped: "
Photo: Niels Ahlmann Olesen for Berlingske.dk / Urban.dk
The City of Copenhagen has been on a 'charm offensive' since April 2010. The goal is to get more people to use the bike racks around the ci... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2010, 12:29 pm
Since the 1970s, parents have been told that a university degree -- and the entry it affords into the so-called knowledge economy -- was the only track to a financially secure profession. But all of the skilled trades offer a career path with an almost assured income, Joerres said, and mak... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2010, 10:26 am
Wisdom with an African Accent from Evangel by Robert E. Sagers:
Short-term mission trips rarely seem to go as planned. And that’s not always a bad thing.
My church recently sent a team to minister to the Tonga people of Zimbabwe, a team of 11 equipped to do some preaching, teaching, and hut... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 10:02 pm
‘Hip’ Christianity and litur-tainment: "
For those who care about the future of the church this Wall Street Journal article by Brett McCracken is worth reading: The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity. All of us are familiar with churches whose worship services feature bands, jugglers,... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 10:30 am
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 4:
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and th... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 2:47 pm
From Mark Driscoll’s latest book Doctrine (Crossway, 2010):
If we idolize our gender, we must demonize the other gender. If we idolize our nation, we must demonize other nations. If we idolize our political party, we must demonize other political parties. If we idolize our socioeconomic clas... Comment - Like
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Aug 1, 2010, 11:37 pm
But you shall rise again: "
“You must indeed, O believer, grapple with death, and shall get the first fall – but you shall rise again, and come off victorious at last. You must go down to the grave; but, though it be your long home, it will not be your everlasting home.
You will not hear the vo... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 12:13 pm
I often fail to resist this urge...especially when I teach.
“If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”—Exodus 20:25.
God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and ... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 12:16 pm
"Loss of a sense of God’s presence. Some years ago First Things published Carol Zaleski’s disturbing article, The Dark Night of Mother Teresa, and we now have her private writings collected in Come Be My Light. What startled me in reading of Mother Teresa’s experience was the recognit... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 11:21 am
I don't know anything about the organization that made this video but I thought it did captured a nugget of truth that I have discovered myself: Comment - Like
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May 25, 2010, 12:47 pm
Ethiopian in the White House describes his homeland as a place where "there's lots of happy togetherness, family and love. . . . I always feel like the biggest luxury I have is that I am connected to poverty."
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May 25, 2010, 10:37 am
"You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God’s love to you! Do not argue, “I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.” ... Comment - Like
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May 20, 2010, 10:52 am
Kevin DeYoung has hit the nail on the head when he says:
“Until we are content with being one of the million nameless, faceless church members and not the next globe-trotting rock star, we aren’t ready to be a part of the church. In the grand scheme of things, most of us are going to be... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 11:32 am
…don’t try to manufacture the spiritual life of one’s own choosing, accept that which God has sent you. This is also not to say that one should not seek after ‘higher things’, but that we should be circumspect, careful, and not prone to flights of fancy as we flit from pure to purer to... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2010, 3:44 pm
[Regarding a favorable memory of a church he previously attended]
"The church itself attracted me greatly, the clergyman who I heard every Sunday was a right reverend personality, a unique figure, who knew how to bring out old and new from the experiences of an eventful life; he was perfectl... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2010, 5:32 pm
I copied this interesting post:
From “Yes, The Internet Is Rotting Your Brain” (Salon), a discussion of the new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Your Brain, which is an expansion of ideas posited by author Nicholas Carr in the much-discussed Atlantic Monthly artic... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 11:10 am
This may be the BEST conversion story I've ever heard, second only to C.S. Lewis, I think.
Notice how God unilaterally saved this man.
I, a Very Rabid Anti-Christian, Very Suddenly Convert
(by John Shore)
The split-second before I very suddenly became a Christian, I couldn'... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2010, 12:05 pm
I just wanted to recommend this very good lesson from pastor Eric Smith:
http://ericcsmith.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/life-under-the-lordship-of-christ/ Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2009, 12:31 pm
“I will pour water upon him that is thirsty.” (Isaiah 44:3)
When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is not the way to rise from the dust, but to continue in it. You might as wel... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 12:37 pm
Read the Anselm quote from the post below this one.
After reading (and posting) that quote I went on to read Anselm say later in that same book:
O CHRISTIAN soul, soul raised up from a grievous death, soul redeemed and delivered from a miserable slavery by the blood of God, arouse your mind from... Comment - Like
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