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And this is just what we all needed… HT: Vanessa
A side road back to Blacksburg is just what I needed to gather my thoughts, be reminded of my need for trust above clarity.
Part 2 of the review of Andy Stanley's book "Deep & Wide.." We must learn to think deeply again. We've become like the "Modern Family" sitcom in our ecclesiology - adrift and in reaction mode to what's happening around us. We have no strategy and act like we have no mission. We're simply in our church living rooms spouting off one-liners and have become the slapstick of society. Our youth and college students struggle to apply (or even know) scriptural principles to living and decisions.
The humility Jesus demonstrated is stunning and instructive.
From John Eldredge in Beautiful Outlaw: “Oh how hard it is to rescue the human heart, to dislodge it from it’s chosen means of survival without toppling it into resignation, despair or defensiveness. Jesus won’t take the shortcut of a…
In this "nuff said" entry, read about: Noah and Tim Tebow, Repenters, Driscoll's apology, Let it go-please, abortion speech, Urkaine, and help for those who don't want to raise their hands in worship.
A quick look at John Eldredge's book "Beautiful Outlaw.." Eldredge helps us rediscover Jesus as a very real person. Yes, He is fully God, and yes, He is fully man, but as a mysterious both, God the Creator did not cast off His infinite personality to become a flannel board, neutered get-well card of a deity.
It all started last week when my cousin created a Facebook event page for his mom’s (my aunt Imie) 80th birthday celebration. The big shindig happened this past Sunday in Hamburg, Arkansas, at the Ashley County Museum. It was one…
Deep & Wide by Andy Stanley was one of the books I began 2014 reading with Dave Farris, our campus pastor in Pulaski, Virginia. Andy is the pastor of North Point Church near Atlanta, and his book Visioneering is on…