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This was a neat read, I had to link to it. I don’t care if you hate Lutherans or denominations in general, the whole article was worth it for these quotes: I once was blessed to meet the greatest Luther scholar of the 20th century, in person, Roland Bainton, in the early 80′s after a [...]
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Kevin DeYoung wrote a great post about this issue that I highly recommend. Do you ever feel guilty that: You could pray more. You aren’t bold enough in evangelism. You like sports too much. You watch movies and television too often. Your quiet times are too short or too sporadic. You don’t give enough. You [...]
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This post is great, I wish I had written it. But I didn’t. From Charles Lehmann’s blog, Drowning Myself Whenever I Can: … The only good Christian is a dead one. We have to die to ourselves. We have to take up our cross daily and follow Him. We must daily be drowned in the [...]
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I recently found out that Spirituality of the Cross, a book that has been profoundly helpful to my spiritual walk, is going to be revised. I commented about how the book has impacted me and the author of the book, Gene Veith, reprinted my comment here. I’m deeply thankful for this book and highly recommend [...]
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Daily prayer is and always has been a struggle for me. I don’t prioritize it like I should. I often neglect His Word and prayer. Lately I’ve taken somewhat of a hiatus from blogging to get in the Word more and to pray (plus many other areas of my life have been busy). If I [...]
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I posted this in tandem with Daily Prayer in order to give instructions for how I created my ribbon bookmark. I recently received the Treasury of Daily Prayer as a Christmas present and discovered that it was supposed to come with a ribbon bookmark to help me navigate the various sections and psalms. It didn’t. [...]
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Tony Reinke over at Miscellanies shared a series of Charles Spurgeon quotes today about Christless preaching. I recommend you go read all six quotes, but here’s two to whet your whistle: The motto of all true servants of God must be, “We preach Christ; and him crucified.” A sermon without Christ in it is like [...]
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This is an amazing reminder that all life is precious and valuable to God. Charles Lehmann reminds us that God does not desire the death of a sinner: It is tempting for many of us to look at the death of Michael Jackson with just a little bit of quiet happiness. Though he was never [...]
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As the above ad shows, seeker-sensitivity can get out of hand. But sometimes in our efforts to denounce it we end up shredding up the good guys in the process, who are merely using cultural illustrations to teach the Gospel. Today I read a great post by Charlie Lehmann dealing with the strengths and limits [...]
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If there is one thing that drives me absolutely up the wall, it’s people who quote Bible verses out of context to support whatever they’d like to say that particular day. Jay Winters has written a great post about keeping verses in context that I wanted to share with everyone. The post also explains how [...]
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Is there really any biblical support for a separation of clergy and laity? 1 Peter 2:5 says: “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” So it seems we are all priests before God, and thus need [...]
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Sorry for my sporadic posting here lately. I’ve been posting regularly at NWI Connect and some of my other blogs, but prayeramedic has suffered some recently. I’ve been selectively reading a great book for a research paper I’m writing. The book is entitled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo [...]
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I’m reading “The Essential Kierkegaard” right now by Hong & Hong. It combines a lot of his better (and lesser) known writings into one compilation. I wanted to share two quotes to inspire you to think today. I will resume the Returning to Intimacy series soon. “Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must [...]
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Well for any church leader or passion-driven Christ follower, this is Tiffany to give you a must-read book suggestion. Growing True Disciples written by George Barna is the book for you. I must say, I haven’t read a book like this in a long time. It was hard to put it down. Before I started [...]
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I just finished reading Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (link at the bottom of this post). The last chapter talks about confession and communion, and it blew me away. Bonhoeffer talks about how “the pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. [...]
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I (Tiffany) have been reading “A Slice of Organic Life” by Sheherazade Goldsmith. I picked this book up at the hospital book sale. I have almost finished reading it in two days. One thing that I really like about the book is that ANYONE can do SOMETHING organic. I think many people still have the [...]
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This is part 3 of a series on a great book I am reading entitled, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters, by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. You can purchase this book from Amazon by clicking on the image to the left. Well, I’ve actually finished reading the [...]
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This is part 2 of a series on a great book I am reading entitled, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters, by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. You can purchase this book from Amazon by clicking on the image to the left. I apologize for not posting on [...]
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This is part 1 of a series on a great book I am reading entitled, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters, by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. You can purchase this book from Amazon by clicking on the image to the left. Let me begin by quoting the [...]
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