Many of us were appalled with those who began talking about gun control, school security, and the effects of video games on America’s youth within hours of what some are calling the most tragic school shooting in American history. It just seemed insensitive. In our Single Focus Bible Study on Sunday morning–48 hours after the...
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Dec 10, 2012 • I asked David Potete a few questions about ministering, particularly in the urban context such as Chicago. Below are his helpful answers! David has been the pastor of Northwest Community Church in Chicago for several years. __________________________ What is the best advice you’ve been given? Strive for balance. In the early 1980’s as I...
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Nov 15, 2012 • I no particular order: The grace of God in His all-powerful, world-creating, death-defying, lion-like Son Jesus. A book written by 40+ authors over several hundred years that has either all come true or will come true. Randy and Beverly Riggs Lynsey Riggs Mark and Debbie Stripling Zaxby’s Sweet Tea Dropbox Biblical theology SBTS M. Lloyd...
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Nov 13, 2012 • In September of 2006 I met with Jack Williams and Bert Tippett to talk about an article I emailed them. They were the two people I knew with connections to the FWB writing world. I wanted to get something published. That didn’t work. They were nice and all, but my articles weren’t that good. What...
I’ve sensed it for a while, but now I’m certain of it: there’s a storm brewing somewhere in my future. It’s as though I can feel the warm winds picking up and see the dark clouds way off in the distance. I do think the saying holds true in life: you’re either in the middle...
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Nov 12, 2012 • I wrote this a few years ago and just found it. Thought it might be appropriate what with yesterday being Veteran’s Day. ____________ I met a man today. He was waiting in front of me at the County Clerk’s office. We were both getting a license plate for our cars. The first thing I noticed...
Around a year ago I likened seminary to a Dewalt drill. I’m definitely not a big tough tool kind of guy, but this past week one of my professors, @kyledunham, said something that provided some clarity in my constant search for balance between the complexity of seminary studies and practicality in the pulpit… he said,...
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Nov 8, 2012 • I grabbed this from a Christianity Today article on Spurgeon. I love the seriousness with which he approached preaching. The weight of it was so evident in him. From the beginning of his ministry, Spurgeon attracted vast audiences in such establishments as Exeter Hall and the Royal Surrey Gardens Music Hall. While to all appearances...
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Oct 17, 2012 • In this sermon by Mark Dever, he gives five ways for pastors and his congregation to pray: Pray Paul’s prayers from Ephesians, Colossians, etc. Pray the preaching of the gospel would be clear. Pray for increasing maturity in the congregation. Pray for sinners to be converted and for members to be built up through the...
The other day, I was hurrying across the parking lot at church to teach a school class when a man approached me holding his forehead. With a look of pain he explained, “I was just stung by a bee. The hive is right over there by that sidewalk…” My first thought was not, “Oh poor...
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Oct 10, 2012 • Here are two helpful videos of David Platt and Mark Dever discussing important truths of disciple-making. Dever speaks of this often, but he mentions again in the first video that the reason many don’t make disciples is because they’re not really Christians. This is so important to consider. He also gives very practical advice on...
The foundation of the husband/wife relationship and roles is found in Genesis 2:18-25. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird...
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