Friday, February 28, 2014

Nothing

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Let me lay out some facts as I see them. There is nothing about what you do that is 100 percent secure. There is nothing about what you ha...

A complete circle

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One could say the end of ends in 1 Corinthians 15:28 completes the task God gave to humans in the opening chapter of the Bible on day six (c...

Thought for today

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Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. (Prov 14:31 TNIV) <idle musing...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

That's a serious charge

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If we preach the Plan of Salvation as the gospel, we will find ourselves doing everything we can to get people motivated or, to used words f...

It's deeper than that

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Here’s the deal with Jesus. He’s egalitarian when it comes to this issue, and He wants everyone to repent of their sexuality because everyon...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Half-baked

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In this book I will be contending firmly that we evangelicals (as a whole) are not really “evangelical” in the sense of the apostolic gospel...

Fickle

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What we desire, whether noble or corrupted, is not the truest thing about us. Building our identity on the foundation of what we desire guar...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Decisions, decisions, decisions

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I believe the word gospel has been hijacked by what we believe about “personal salvation,” and the gospel itself has been reshaped to facil...

The sum of the parts...

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When we take any one of our strongly felt desires and construct our entire identity around it, we discover that we are making a part of wh...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Truest and things

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What we have—or don’t have—is not the truest thing about us. Building our identity on the foundation of what we have means that we’ll alway...

Whose gospel?

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Isn’t the more important question about whether Paul preached Jesus’ gospel? Moreover, there’s another problem: Piper’s assumption is that j...

I should have expected this

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This showed up in my inbox this morning: Last month, “Big Food,” in the form of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a trade orga...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Grammar musings

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I'm always wondering about grammatical usage of words. The question in my mind today was which is the correct way to say something: onli...

True or truest?

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But here’s the truth: what we do is not the truest thing about us. Building our identity on the foundation of what we do creates an identity...

With open eyes

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As a result of my Evangelism Explosion experience and its aftermath in my own thinking, I developed a cynicism about evangelism. It took dee...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Security

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So many of us grew up in homes where we never felt secure. We had to work extra hard, trying to earn approval or love that never came. Our t...

The two Ds

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Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision ; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples . ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Thorn bushes

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Looking back, I can see how I’ve tried to get others to perform, regardless of their motivation. I’ve focused a lot on their work and not en...

There's so much more

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Multitudes in the Church walk around as if they are in mourning—never knowing rest of soul or the peace of Christ’s presence. They picture t...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

It's true

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I just finished reading a new book (relaased February 1). I rarely read popular Christian literature, and even more rarely read a new releas...