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The moral conversation
David Brooks hits the moral conversation issue hard again. Where do we find the answers to the great questions we have, such as, “What is the purpose of my life?” We still ask those kinds of things, but where are the voices that can help guide the answers? Public conversation doesn’t want a moral voice any long. We want political…
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4.26.15 The Imagination of Abraham (Church on the Move)
“The Imagination of Abraham” – A sermon from Heights Church Subscribe in a reader or on iTunes
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The choice of joy
The enemy robs through anxiety. Jesus restores through joy.
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When the large needs to learn from the small
In the church context, that’s another conversation. And, let’s be honest, probably one that won’t be had in the near future. But there IS a context it SHOULD happen… and SOON. There are two situations linked in a way I think it’s time to say, “The large could learn from the small.” One article posted by a couple of teachers…
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Faithful saints
With the flood of self-promotion, self-branding, social marketing, etc., craze we constantly battle, what gets missed are the true saints. Between the hollering online over any issue, Baltimore, gay marriage, war, etc., it’s hard to remember there are simply MILLIONS of good people living good lives doing good things… quietly. A saint has just left us. No one will know…
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Self justification
The model Jesus gives us for following him is incredibly simple… and difficult. Love him. Love people. Prepare for rejection. “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.” (Luke 10:16) This is simply bad news all the way around when we unpack it, especially if our self-justifying…
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Thanks. I needed that.
Mark Batterson in his book The Grave Robber put it this way: Sometimes we need someone to silly-slap us! We need some tough love applied. Probably 25 years or more ago I sat at breakfast with a man I wanted to learn from. I was new in ministry and a habit I was establishing at the time was trying to learn from…
