December 2009
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For those times when ONE blog isn't enough...
For the next few weeks I’ll be manning the helm of not only this blog, but two (count ‘em) blogs for our winter conference. I won’t be the only contributor, but I will have a significant amount of input and veto power over everything that appears on them.
The first is a live blog of the conference. In a way, our winter conference has already started, as students begin to...
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Signing a Declaration? Really?
I followed a link today to www.IBelieve.com sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and was shocked to find this thinly guised signup for the BGEA and Christianity.com mailing lists:
It’s sad, Franklin Graham, that you would be a part of this.
The verse on the “declaration” is that our LIGHT would shine, not our WORDS. Indignantly declaring that we are...
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“Our belligerence toward “Happy Holidays” is roughly analogous to...”
– Me, in comment to a funny post by Jon Acuff
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More verses I've never heard on "Christian"...
This is the latest in a series. To read the series from the beginning, click here.
Romans 1:18 in combo with Romans 3:23
I’ll give it to Christian radio. They might have actually played these as the “verse of the day.” But I’ve never head it. The first one says that the wrath of God (not exactly a ratings-hog of a concept) is poured out against the unrighteous. The...
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Tim Keller=Brainache.
I am absolutely loving the first of the two Keller books purchased recently. I don’t know how any(genuinely seeking)one could read this book and remain ambivalent toward Christianity.
More to come on this thought once I finish the book.
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Hard Work.
I started my three new books with Roy Williams’ Hard Work, because (contrary to what the title might have me believe) I knew it would be the quickest read. And nothing fuels reading like some good momentum.
Tim Crothers (Roy’s help writing the book) does an excellent job of hiding behind what sounds exactly like Roy Williams is speaking, and making it come off as both well written,...
Matt Chandler isn't wasting his Brain Tumor. →
What an encouraging video by Matt Chandler, pastor of the Village church in Texas.
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While I'm on the Santa topic...
I’ve heard some people say that they are worried about their kids, when they are told about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Jesus, that they might learn two of the three are a lie and assume the third is also.
That’s pretty silly, unless during family devotions you are praying to the Easter Bunny. Kids can tell the difference between something you devote your life to and something...
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Santa Claus.
We’re probably not going to do Santa with our kids.
When I say that, immediately there are those who jump up to tell us how it’s just innocent fun to tell the stories of Santa. (Funny how it’s not OK for me to tell others not to do Santa but it’s perfectly acceptable for others to tell me to do the opposite…)
They also often say something to the effect of “we...