Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, wrote an interesting piece on The Resurgence. In it he talks about “conference Christians”, defined as “someone who spends a great deal of time (and often money) attending Christian conferences.” I have to admit that I’ve never been to one of the conferences that he talks [...]
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Last Friday I played in a charity golf tournament that benefited Reach Out Honduras, a missions organization started by our dear friends Alex and Laura. I use the word “played” very loosely, as I’m terrible at golf. My playing partners will now strongly attest to that fact. I don’t spend a lot of time at [...]
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My friend Laura wrote a post on her website today called “The Return“, detailing some thoughts on their return to Honduras. They spent a little over a month back here in the States raising money and awareness for their missions organization. A couple paragraphs caught my attention. I love the simplicity of life in Puerto [...]
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As I’m sure most of you remember, a couple weeks ago was Easter weekend. In the church, Easter is like the Super Bowl of the yearly schedule. We put our best foot forward, hoping to show new people that we’re not as boring as that church down the street, and that our theology is better [...]
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I want to take a moment to apologize to each and every person I have come into contact with through my life. This may sound odd, but I would like to ask your forgiveness for something. You see, I’ve spent time and energy, two things I don’t have in abundance and neither do you, on [...]
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You ever think about what is in your back yard? Might seem like a bit of an odd question, but it’s one that’s been on my mind recently. It’s really pretty easy for me to answer. We’ve got a fort for the kids to play on, a slide and a little house for the younger [...]
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Just about every Sunday I stand in front of an audience of people, preparing to lead them through music in worship to God. Every time, probably more out of habit now, I ask the same question, “How is everyone this morning?” I occasionally get a genuinely excited “Whoo!”, but most of the time it seems [...]
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A couple of days ago, I had an epiphany, a moment where an idea crystallized and finally became clear to me. What was that idea? Hope doesn’t work. It simply doesn’t do anything but sit there and wait. We hope for a new job, we hope for more money, we hope for a person to [...]
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Yesterday I read this article from Redbook (hey, a couple people I follow on Twitter linked it, don’t judge me) and it riled me up a little bit. Hence, I’m writing this when I haven’t written anything in a long time. Essentially, the article says that girls are being oversexualized at a young age, which [...]
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I just read this quote from Mark Driscoll’s book, Doctrine, and thought it made a phenomenal point about idolatry in our lives. The chapter this comes from is discussing how we worship, and it crystallizes several things to me. One of the great evils of idolatry is that if we idolize, we must also demonize, [...]
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