I’m in Mark reading for our small group challenge before and after work today, and it is interesting to me how Christ spends his time in the first few chapters of Mark, as best as I can sum it up, he’s explaining how to live according to the kingdom of God. Deep theology being taught [...]
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American Business .vs A Bakery
A great quote I found recently that I liked concerning business and life… American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it’s profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It’s just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, [...]
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Why I Blog
I don’t blog because I’m brilliant or because I necessarily have some bright new ideas that no one else has been able to come up with I blog because it forces me to collect my thoughts and think specifically about something. It’s Lso an opportunity to help me determine how to write out my thoughts [...]
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Conversion and Following
We talk a lot about the “conversion process” as Christians, but it seems Christ spends just as much time talking about following Him and how that would look. Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For [...]
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God Speaks
I’ve always had what I felt was a conservative view of how God spoke to his children (believers). I felt like I was justified in this position because of how God had spoken in his written word, and how he had chosen prophets and individuals in the Bible to communicate his words. I’ve had this [...]
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Seven Pounds
I recently watched Seven Pounds, and it was a dramatic sorrowful story of reckless penance from a man who had lost his wife and killed several others in a car crash.It seemed like a sorrowful, selfish, and eventually suicidal death in a vain attempt to get rid of a debt he could never repay. But, [...]
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“Becoming De-Westernized”
Here is an article that I found on another blog recently. This is only the introduction, but I think it brings out some good questions and thoughts about how we live our faith, and whether we’ve allowed other extra-biblical things into our faith, that we sometimes expect of other believers of different cultural backgrounds or [...]
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a quote that caught my mind
I’ve been slowly reading a book* entitled, Why We’re Not Emergent By Two Guys Who Should Be, and I came across an interesting quote. While I’m almost certainly taking out of the context of disproving the validity of the emergent church, here it is anyway: In the music scene it’s really cool to search for [...]
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evangelistic methods after modernity (part 1)
During my final semester at Moody (www.moody.edu), as I completed my degree in Evangelism and Discipleship, I had to write a final paper to culminate my learning. I used this as an opportunity to examine some of how our culture is changing and how we are sharing the gospel/evangelizing/sharing the good news/telling our personal faith [...]
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Light
During our honeymoon in Montreal, we stopped at a statue depicting a crowd of people with varying looks, expressions, and actions. When you looked at the front of the crowd you saw an expectant, excited look on the people’s faces, as if they were rejoicing over some coming light. As the group moved towards the [...]
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