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Bible, gospel, prayer, priorities
Yesterday’s message from Acts 20:17-38 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here’s how I summed up this second installment of what has become a three-part New Year’s mini-series: Given grave threats to the church’s wellbeing, what it needs most is leaders and followers alike who focus on ultimate priorities [...]
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Bible reading, discipline, planning, sanctification, spirituality
Whoever coined that little saying, got it right. Making a plan and working a plan can make all the difference on so many fronts in our lives from the physical to the relational to the spiritual. For over a decade now I have followed a plan of one sort of another of daily Bible reading [...]
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budget, finances, giving, stewardship
As with last week, we asked the deacons to tabulate the offering from Christmas Day so as to keep the body informed about our progress to close the 2011 budget year with a strong finish. The total for our general fund giving for 12/25 was $6083. While that is about $1000 below our weekly budget [...]
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discipleship, Don Whitney, New Year, resolutions, spirituality
For an excellent resource by Don Whitney to help frame your 2012 journey with Jesus click on ten-questions-start-new-year.
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budget, finances, generosity, giving, stewardship
With Teddie out of the office for two weeks of vacation here at the end of the year, we won’t deposit offerings from last Sunday or this Sunday until the first week of January 2012. However we didn’t want to fail to report giving in light of our yearend ask letter that went out a [...]
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death, family, grief, marriage, obedience, providence, sovereignty
By tale I don’t mean fiction. Each family referenced in this post once existed or does now actually exist. These tales relate fact, some of it hard-to-swallow, down right mind blowing truth. Household #1 – Ezekiel the prophet’s. Every year as I read through the entirety of the Bible I always come up short when [...]
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church, gopspel, spirituality
For an excellent article from 9 Marks reflecting on various issues relating to gospel centrality in our church or any church click here.
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doctrines of grace, eternal security, Hebrews, perseverance, spiritual birth
Last October Nancy and I visited a church we’ve never attended before near our mountain retreat during our annual fall vacation. The pastor preached a message from the book of Hebrews. He concluded from the numerous warning passages in places like Heb. 2:1-3 that believers in Christ can lose their salvation. Controversy notwithstanding and readily [...]
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Advent, giving, incarnation, Missions
I find myself often praying portions of Philippians 2:5-11 with folks during this Christmas season. Where would we be if the Son of God had not counted equality with God a thing to be grasped and had abhorred the virgin’s womb? Lost – eternally, horribly, hellishly lost. But the news is good! He humbled himself, [...]
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deity of Christ, failure, faith, glory, grief, guilt, love, prophecy
Sunday’s message from John 13:31-38 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here’s how I summarized things: Because of Jesus’ great care in preparing His own for His departure, we should believe in Him as the Messiah, God’s Son – His pointing to glory both of the Father and the [...]
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