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How to wait
The call of Jesus to his disciples was to wait until they were clothed with power from on high. In the waiting, we need a sense of anticipation. For the Church, we shouldn’t be waiting alone. We should be waiting together. It’s not about sticking ourselves in a room until something happens… although I’m not sure that’s not a completely…
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The paradigm of kingdom thinking
One of the more important chapters in Simply Jesus by NT Wright is on Space, Time, and Matter. It’s a mind-bender for me, which I enjoy. The contention is that Jesus wasn’t about telling people how to get to heaven. Jesus was about announcing the coming of the Kingdom HERE… NOW. Not in some “Kingdom Now” type of theology, but…
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Discipleship prayer
Lord, may people see in me a God they want to follow.
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Why we must Live Dead in prayer
“The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” — Samuel Chadwick
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To the desert go prophets
I picked up a copy of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, which is a fascinating read. At the beginning of each chapter he has some great quotes and I loved this one by Paul Shepard (from Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature) “To the desert to prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims…
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Tested by Fire
Over the past several weeks we have been in prayer for a missionary friends who has battled for his life. There are so many spiritual elements in the equation and the prayers of the saints have truly carried on a spiritual war. So much is at stake. It’s the life of a missionary. It’s a closed country. It’s the lives…
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Living Dead isn’t just for young adults
I was in a pastors meeting today being introduced to a missionary with an incredible story. He and his wife are giving their lives to missions work in Asia. Both were previously married, their children are adults, they weren’t saved until just a few years ago, but in that time they kept in motion when it came to praying and…
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Mixed up roles
Thinking this guy: can play an “intellectual” in a movie about God not being dead: is just silly. Who would buy that? It’s like saying this guy: can play THIS guy: Just silliness. Oh, wait… he IS a senator? (By the way, I AM tagging this post as HUMOR… so don’t go ripping me about how I don’t…
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Let’s get engaged
Not this: But THIS: 4 Our weapons that we fight with aren’t human, but instead they are powered by God for the destruction of fortresses. They destroy arguments, 5 and every defense that is raised up to oppose the knowledge of God. They capture every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Cor. 10:4-5) Let us become engaged once again…
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Overcoming obstacles in discipleship
Two key questions that come up for me when I am trying to walk in a discipline: 1. What keeps me FROM this? 2. What drives me TO this? The first question is ready because it brings guilt. “I know I’m supposed to study the Word, but…” We can come up with reasons: “I can’t get my alarm to work. I…
