I’m less afraid of a worldwide zombie apocalypse than I am of visiting Florida.
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Don’t tell me you missed THAT news story!
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“Oh, how I love Your law!”…
Does this sound like a modern Christian?…We need to seek the law of God—to pant after it—to delight in it. Anything less is an offense against the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul from The Law of God

Been enjoying this album that goes through the entire story line of the Bible. Good, creative, even experimental music by Heath Hollensbe, who describes himself as:
A SENSORY THEOLOGIAN INTENTIONALLY LABORING TO RAISE YOUR AFFECTIONS TOWARDS CHRIST
Songs:
- Hovering
- Creation
- Failure
- Atonement
- Covenant
- Re-Creation
Great blog I’ve been reading lots of articles from. Lots of good wisdom from the folks over at Peacemaker Ministries (a group I’ve come to love over the past 2 years.)
Here is some helpful blogs they’ve posted:
- Why do many Christians fuel church conflicts rather than turn and pursue peace?
- Many of my friends are leaving our church and I’m not sure if I should leave with them …
- My church is having HUGE conflicts over homeschooling vs. public vs. Christian education. How should I respond?
- Truth Distinguishes Real Issues from False Ones (Part 3 of Church Conflicts Often Overlook Some Basic Truths About Truth)
- What do you do when the people keep leaving and the pastor doesn’t seem to be taking their reasons as valid?
My question, having met a few church planters in the last few weeks, is, when somebody says they are looking to gather a core, is that code language for we’re looking to take people from another church and put them into our church plant? That isn’t a criticism but I think we need to call a spade a spade. Of course those of us in established churches need to be gospel hearted and generous but I think we also need to give the church planting movement a bit of a slap. To grow churches in this country is hard, hard work and to turn churches round is tough and so somebody turning up and trying to take the people you’ve cared for can be somewhat trying. I’d love it if I met with a church planter and, when I asked him what stage are you at, he replied ‘I’m trying to steal Christians from other churches.’ I’d at least give him points for honesty.
…’redeeming the city’,… Is this appropriate language given what we know of the biblical use of redemption? That depends. People are redeemed by the Holy Spirit regenerating their hearts, having faith in Christ, repenting of their sins, and receiving Christ and his saving and renovating benefits from his accomplished work in history. Christ did not directly accomplish redemption for buildings, neighborhoods, cities, towns, or any other particular group or entity whatsoever. Christ’s benefits do not apply to a local diner or run-down gym. They do not apply to capitalism, to philosophy, to Wal-Mart, to the Icelandic courts of law, or any other non-human not made in the image of God.
There may be some warrant for a loose definition of redemption that is non-soteric and can be applied to non-individuals by proxy. First, God cursed the ground in Gen 3:16, 17, the result being toil and struggle in our work from that day forward. That curse, however, will not be redeemed until the last days, so there’s no indication that God, and especially not man, will do anything to redeem that curse before the second coming.
Should We Witness for Christ? (Part 2)
My first blog post on “witnessing” for Christ might leave the impression that I am among those who suggest that evangelism is something only pastors and/or those with a special call to evangelism need to worry about. I am not. In fact, I think the Bible raises serious questions about the genuineness of a person’s Christianity if he has no heart or concern for evangelism…
Faithful > Radical
If there is anything that marks my generation of leaders, it’s the desire to be “radical”—to violently overthrow old paradigms. We want to shake up the status quo in the church, in government, in business, in philanthropy. And this is good.
By and large millennial Christians want offer lives in service to God and others by offering new and creative solutions. This is good.
But if I could speak a word of caution, from one rabble-rouser to another, I would say that sometimes the most radical thing you can do with your life is to simply be faithful.
Yes, you heard that right. By consistently doing the same thing every single day you might be more radical than you think. I know that doesn’t sound very sexy,
I loved this quote:
Talented quitters are a dime a dozen, but people with marginal talent who commit to hard work in the day-to-day grind always stand out as radical.
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Finally, a word about The Hidden Life of Prayer:

This classic was written by David McIntyre (sometimes spelled M’Intyre) who lived from 1859 to 1938. McIntyre was a Scottish preacher who succeeded Andrew Bonar as minister in Finnieston and later served as principal of the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow from 1913 to 1938. His book was first published in 1913. He describes the book’s purpose in his preface: “Books on secret prayer are without number; but it seems to me that there is still room for one in which an appeal may be taken, steadily, and from every point, to life—to the experience of God’s saints.”
One publisher’s introduction to the book says this: “Upon the foundation of biblical teaching, M’Intyre piles example after example of what has been helpful and effective in the prayer lives of many Christians, from Augustine to Spurgeon. The result is a handbook for prayer based both on Scripture and on the time-tested wisdom of God’s people through the centuries. Reading this book will, therefore, give you an abundance of counselors (Proverbs 11:14) to help you toward a victorious prayer life.”
Source: challies.com
Homosexuality… the secular media calls and ask me why [Christians] talk about this so much…I don’t call the media, they call me…
A reporter called me from a major national newspaper and the first question he asked me… was about homosexuality, the second was about homosexuality and the third was, “Why is it that we’re talking about homosexuality?”
“It is because you called me and asked the questions.”
And that is just the way it is, that is why the church, right now, finds itself talking so much about homosexuality. It is not because that is what we would choose to talk about but because that is what the world is talking about, that’s what people are asking about and we have a responsibility to respond in truth.
Dr. Albert Mohler

Source: albertmohler.com





