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audio books, leadership
Christian Audio is offering J. Oswald Sander’s classic Spiritual Leadership free this month. You can download your own copy here. Our Oxford Club for men has found this book to be life changing in its import. If you don’t own a copy get your free audio version now! Don’t forget to use the coupon code [...]
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bridge building, compassion, mercy ministry
Christian Audio is giving away this month a free download of Tim Keller’s Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road. I have read this book. It is an important contribution to the conversation about the need for believers to show mercy to the poor and compassion to the needy. If you need motivation [...]
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apologetics, Evangelism, postmodernism, witness
That’s how D. A. Carson characterizes his latest book, The God Who Is There, Baker, 2010, 233 pages. He subtitled it: Finding Your Place in God’s Story. He wrote it principally for the rising number of people in our postmodern world today who really do not know how the Bible works at all. It’s a [...]
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discipleship, ministry, spiritual growth
In 2009 Matthias Media published this book subtitled: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything. When I read Mark Dever’s assessment (This is the best book I’ve read on the nature of church ministry) I knew I needed to read it. I have. Since then I have given away several copies. Recently I picked up thirty [...]
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leadership, men's ministry, reading
Another Oxford Club meeting for men lies just around the corner a week from Saturday. I just finished reading chapter 13, The Leader and Reading, in Oswald Sanders’ Spiritual Leadership. In it the author cites the example of John Wesley as a model for leaders who wish to lead well. John Wesley had a passion [...]
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Richard Adams’ book, Watership Down, is a story of rabbits. Rabbits that are fearless and full of fear. Rabbits that are adventurous and full of caution. If this is sounding strikingly similar to another animal species, you might be on to something. Through an epic story of rabbits, Adams teaches us about man’s humility and [...]
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leadership, men's ministry, servanthood
This Saturday at 7 AM at the church office (see events section of this site) we will begin a new discussion study. So many men indicated a desire for prayer for growth in their leadership abilities in the home, on the job, and at the church, that we decided to utilize J. Oswald Sanders classic [...]
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fellowship, Hobbits, leaving
You can grow into people, as Frodo did, or grow away from them, as Bilbo did. As we leave OGC, there is not a trace of staleness or coldness with the relationships we have.
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fatherhood, leadership
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road gets what fatherhood is all about.
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giving, tithing
Someone asked last Sunday about the source of my quotation, which I’ll provide here. For those of you that weren’t there, I read an article from an author named A. J. Jacobs, an agnostic who wrote a book about an experiment he undertook to live one year “biblically.” What I found most fascinating about this [...]
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