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How Are Your Verbs? Dave Black Resolve For 2009 And Maybe Ours?

Posted in Christian Living, Christianity, Discipleship, Great Ministries, tagged , on January 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I think this is the toughest blogpost I have ever read! There are times I wish I didn’t check certain websites. Men like Alan Knox and Dave Black, women who blog about doing it makes me question am I doing enough! I know, I know, the Gospel is about believing a bunch of abstract facts [...]

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Why Is Everything Better On Sundays?

Posted in Christian Living, Theology Applied, tagged , on December 17, 2008 | 21 Comments »

Why is my marriage always better on Sunday?
Why are my kids the greatest on Sunday?
Why do I like everybody in my church on Sunday?
Why am I so excited about Jesus on Sunday?
How come I always find my bible on Sunday?
Why do I like the worship music on Sunday?
Why don’t I have a problem with the [...]

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Transforming The World Or Escaping From It: How Our Eschatology Effects Our Perspective

Posted in Christian Living, Current Issues, Eschatology, World Issues, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I love this quote from Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation“
So, too the reason God now calls kingdom people to remain separate from the ways of the kingdom-of-the-world is not to isolate them from their culture but to empower them to authentically, serve their culture and ultimately win it over to allegiance to [...]

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Why The Church Has More Hams Than Shems and Japheths

Posted in Christian Living, Church Leadership, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Reformed Perspective, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , , , , on November 14, 2008 | 18 Comments »

Here are the verses:
20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a [...]

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Battle Ram Christianity: How Misguided Zealousness Shaped My Relationships

Posted in Christian Living, Discipleship, Theology Applied, tagged , , on November 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »

“You aren’t sharing the Gospel? How can you say you love Jesus”? “What you studying in the scriptures? Nothing!? Man you ain’t going to ever grow like that”! “Relational witnessing? What is that? I can’t find that in my bible!”. “You go to who’s church? Man, don’t you know that your pastor and Jakes, Dollar, [...]

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A Sermon A Day Keeps The Bible Away?

Posted in Christian Education, Christian Living, Current Issues, Discipleship, Interpretation, Sermons, Studying the Scriptures, Theology Applied, tagged on November 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »

No this is not about Piper per se! This is more about my journey as a Christian and some pitfalls or better yet crutches I used along the way. Back in 2004 I was handed a MacArthur CD and immediately the Spirit began to take my previous (?) 10 years of Christianity and bring me [...]

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Robo-Christianity Part 1

Posted in Christian Living, Ecclesiology, Studying the Scriptures, Theology Applied, tagged , , on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

By Guest Blogger Brother Lawrence D!
Back in 1987 a movie was released called RoboCop. RoboCop is set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future. RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg, otherwise known as “RoboCop”. RoboCop is designed to be a robot police officer that is governed by what is [...]

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Heck No I Can’t Serve You…..Gotta Study My Bible

Posted in Christian Living, Theology Applied, tagged on November 5, 2008 | 21 Comments »

I remember a few months back, I don’t know maybe 7 or 8 I wanted to get a bible study going at my church, really a man’s study. I was talking with a brother of mine and he said “Lionel you dudes don’t need to study the bible more, man go out and help somebody [...]

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A Note From My Muslim Neighbor to Americans (I add Christians)

Posted in Christian Living, Current Issues, Theology Applied, tagged , , on November 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »

If the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a Muslim is the above picture and you treat all those who profess to be Muslims with fear and prejudice this post is for you. I will add some comments after this:

“Islam is a cancer to the world. Sadly, it will, eventually, come [...]

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Lord, I am Trying to be a Good Christian, but Christians Keep Getting in the Way!

Posted in Books, Christian Living, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , on October 29, 2008 | 55 Comments »

I am reading “Paul’s Idea of Community” by Robert Banks on page 53. He quotes 1 Corinthians 1:4-8:

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but [...]

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