On the Fear of God: Reflections from Ecclesiastes

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As Christians, we are to fear our God. But after much bewilderment over its complexities, we often store this truth away in some remote periphery of our faith, never to be obeyed nor experienced. “Perfect love casts out fear,” we remind ourselves. Why should we fear God? Wouldn’t this distort the grace and forgiveness that […]

Excuse the Mess

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Most of us have invited someone into our homes and one of the first things we said was “excuse the mess.” Whether it truly looks like a bomb went off, or we spent (ok, really our wives spent) all day cleaning, that is typically a default statement. We do this to make sure that, if […]

For I Know that My Redeemer Lives

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For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know that in my flesh I shall see God. Job 19:25-26. I get goose pimples when I read these words. This assurance is one of the many I hold closest to […]

Worship: The Heart (Part 1 of 3)

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But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:23-24. These verses are Jesus’ very own words on […]

Notes on Life Together (5 of 5)

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If you’d like to read through the entire series on Life Together, please use the following links: • Community • The Day with Others • The Day Alone • Ministry CHAPTER FIVE: CONFESSION AND COMMUNION He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. As Christians, we can be involved in all manner of […]

Spiritual Sowing

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Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary in doing […]

Notes on Life Together (Part 4 of 5)

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We continue through highlights of Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Community, the Day with Others, and the Day Alone are followed by today’s topic: Ministry. There is a lot of ground covered, but perhaps these snippets will entice you to pick up the book. An argument arose among them as to which of them was […]

Songs for the Book of Philippians

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I wanted to cover some of the songs that we’ll be singing throughout the series on the Book of Philippians and why we’ll be singing them. That’s what I really want to hone in on in this post: why we’ll be singing these songs and how they fit into the context of the Book of […]

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

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Elaine Scarry, Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University wrote the following in her short book On Beauty and Being Just: “Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposiumand everyday life conŠrm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. But it […]

Notes on Life Together (3 of 5)

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In case you are just entering the series and would like to catch up, feel free to read through Part 1 and Part 2. CHAPTER 3: THE DAY ALONE (HIGHLIGHTS) Only in fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in fellowship. ~Bonhoeffer, Life Together. […]

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