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Memorizing Hebrews

Watch this video of Ryan Ferguson reciting Hebrews 9 and 10 at Worship God 06. Inspiring! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Thanksgiving Ideas

Mark Dever has some great ideas on Thanksgiving: What do we do differently on Thanksgiving? A few quick notes. Personally, I try to have a longer quiet time in which I thank God for much that I’ve been praying about that year. As a family, we have friends over, generally Christian and non-Christian, American and [...]

The Nativity Story – The Movie

Here is the trailer to “The Nativity Story,” a movie that’s coming out in December. An dramatization of the birth of the King. I don’t know what I’ll think of this until I watch it, but I will say this, the problem with these type of movies is that you are emblazoned with an image [...]

“Good Monsters” by Jars of Clay

It looks like Jars has put out a new CD. I actually haven’t followed Jars really since their first CD. But you can go to their website to listen to the whole CD. They actually have Six Pence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash in the song “Mirrors and Smoke.” And then they also have an [...]

(Return of the King (Part 1): The King’s Plan

Here is the first message that I am doing as a series entitled, “Return of the King.” Yes, the inspiration was in watching the Trilogy again… Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose [...]

What I Should Have Read in Seminary, But Didn’t…

CREDIT: Tom 7 Photo Gallery Dane Ortlund at Informational Inflammation has a post called, “Seminary Reading” where he says if he had 300 pages to assign a semiarian before going to the pastorate, he would assing the following: * Lectures to My Students, C. H. Spurgeon (excerpts) * The Life of God in the Soul [...]

Christianity Today and Young, Restless, and Reformed

I used to get Christianity Today until I noticed that slowly, the ads were consuming the magazine. I wrote an email to the editor asking about this and they said that it was no different than other news magazines. Well here is the breakup of ads to actual content (November 2006 issue): 71 pages of [...]

The Preacher or the Plaigerer?

You must read this article entitled, “That Sermon You Heard on Sunday May Be from the Web,” in the Wall Street Journal (HT: Justin Taylor). Here is a tidbit: The Rev. Brian Moon says he has come up with ideas for his sermons after water-skiing, while watching “My Name Is Earl” on TV and while [...]

Fill In the Blank Humility

Joshua Harris has a great post on what it means to be wise in one’s own eyes (Proverbs 3:7): I am wise in my own eyes… 1. When I don’t pause to pray for God’s guidance on a decision. 2. When I fail to depend on God’s word and approach it as a daily “lamp [...]

Is Congregationalism the Best Way?

Mark Lauterbach at GospelDrivenLife has an excellent post on his ventures into Congregationalism and its pitfalls. He writes: Look around friends — there are churches in long term decline, with members drifting away in disillusionment, with splits and angry departures — and their problems are diagnosable and treatable in the good of the Gospel. They [...]

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