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“I Am The King of the World…,” Part One
“I am the king of the world…” – Jack Dawson (Titanic), myself, and other church leaders “The Lord can certainly raise up for Himself another laborer to complete his work.” -Michael Sattler I want to...
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Introducing, Sign of The Kingdom, Part Two
Why the name change and what exactly does the cryptic sounding phrase sign of the kingdom mean? These are two frequently asked questions since I’ve revamped the blog. My last post attempted to answer...
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Introducing, Sign of The Kingdom, Part Three
In the first two posts of this series, I reintroduced the blog, updated our personal story, and began to discuss what the phrase sign of the kingdom means by a brief look at the Kingdom of God in...
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm….
Every Friday I plan (hope!) to link to some of what I feel like are most significant blog posts during the past week or two in hopes that they will cause you to think and even better, further the...
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John Piper and God’s Judgment of Crossway Publishing
As a former neo-Reformed acolyte I purchased an ESV Study Bible the day it came out; in fact I purchased two, one for my wife and one for myself (and I told her she had to read it). On second thought I...
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The Church, the State, and Gay Marriage
“Debate on “church and state” or “the church and secular vocations” has gone on for ages, as if the issue were the relationship between two administrative hierarchies or between two segments of a...
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Reimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part One)
My wife is an educator so we’ve often discussed how obscene it can be that the Sunday sermon is aimed at one particular learning style (auditory/audial) and largely neglects the rest. And it takes up...
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Reimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part Two)
In my last post I offered some great quotes from “Flipping the 40-Minute Sermon” by Karen E. Yates and today I want to think through some implications of the ideas she’s pointed out. This post will...
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Reimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part Three)
Today’s post will conclude this series on reimagining the sermon and will only make sense if you’ve read Part One and Part Two. I’ll continue to structure today’s post with a few statements on what our...
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A Brief Statement of Faith (and Works)
This beautiful and challenging “statement of faith” was among the responses at last night’s gathering of the Atlanta Mennonite Fellowship. It is an extract from a larger writing of Meno Simmons, the...
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