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Never trust a pastor who publicly embarrasses the sound-tech guy when something goes wrong in a service.

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J.I. Packer: "Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God."

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An guy saw me in my collar & wanted to tell me a few years ago he came to faith & Jesus changed his life. Later he said his great grandfather was a famous preacher, his parents even had some of his stuff that “belonged in a museum.” He then gave me his card…

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In college Alistair Begg encouraged a group of us to finish our homework on Saturday so we could rest on Sunday. I raised questions about sabbatarianism, etc. & in his Scottish brogue he said, "Brother, if Moses & Chick-fil-A need a day off, so do you." That settled it for me.

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RC Sproul was arguably the most effective communicator of the last century. I’ve always been struck by the question he’d ask his wife, Vesta, after each lecture or sermon. Instead of wondering, “how did I do?” he’d ask, “was I kind?”

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When the history of the American megachurch is written, I think we’ll see that the movement’s real effect wasn’t to draw in unchurched skeptics, it was to keep in bored believers. It was never really “seeker sensitive” so much as it was “wanderer sensitive.”

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J.I. Packer: "Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God."

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I just reconciled with a friend I hadn't spoken to since 2016. We exchanged sharp, ungodly words while having a silly argument about the election. FOUR YEARS lost. I refuse to let 2020 rob me like that.

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Herman Bavinck on his death bed: “My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.”

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On this Transfiguration Sunday, I thought I'd share a reminder Norm Macdonald gave Jane Fonda. Macdonald: Are you a Christian? Fonda: I believe in the historical Jesus. Macdonald: Do you believe in the hypostatic Jesus? Fonda: No. Macdonald: You're not a Christian.

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Dear Preachers, Everyone knows what the word “therefore” means. With Love, Everyone

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Youth pastor sermons be like, the word “chair” here comes from the Greek word X, literally meaning an object upon which one sits. In the ancient near east, it was custom to sit when you were tired of standing but not ready to lay down. So, what are the chairs in your life?

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When the history of the American megachurch is written, I think we’ll see that the movement’s real effect wasn’t to draw in unchurched skeptics, it was to keep in bored believers. It was never really “seeker sensitive” so much as it was “wanderer sensitive.”

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Lots of negative things said about "the media" lately, but it's hard not to be encouraged by @JoeNBC using his platform all week to highlight the American founding and bringing on stellar historians like @tomricks1 and the great @RBrookhiser .

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RC Sproul was arguably the most effective communicator of the last century. I’ve always been struck by the question he’d ask his wife, Vesta, after each lecture or sermon. Instead of wondering, “how did I do?” he’d ask, “was I kind?”

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RC Sproul would put his cigarette out on the church stoop & ask to borrow a bible to preach from. When he preached at my wife's church when she was 6, he saw her staring at him & took a cup & filled it with equal parts sugar, milk, & coffee & gave it to her. What a legend.

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"I never heard Tim Keller speak a cross word about anyone else. Maybe that’s what you should expect from someone who spoke so many words about the cross." - @collinhansen

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Churches that emphasize Bible-teaching tend to draw argumentative people. Churches that emphasize liturgy tend to draw snobby people. Churches that emphasize the Spirit tend to draw narcissistic people. 🧵

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Expository preaching should have such a clear point that it sounds like a topical sermon and topical preaching should be so rooted in scripture that it sounds like an expository sermon.

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Dammit, @DavidAFrench , I had to google how to make a meme for you! @thedispatch

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When the history of the American megachurch is written, I think we’ll see that the movement’s real effect wasn’t to draw in unchurched skeptics, it was to keep in bored believers. It was never really “seeker sensitive” so much as it was “wanderer sensitive.”

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I hydroplaned & totaled my car into a concrete barrier today. Other than my knee being the size of a grapefruit, I'm fine. But it did remind me that life is fragile. Being Advent, we’d just prayed The Great Litany: “From dying suddenly and unprepared, Good Lord deliver us.” Amen.

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Iain Murray’s magnum opus—a two volume work he started in 1962!–is completed and in the hands of his editor. The story of England’s Evangelicals, from 1525-1700.

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@JoelOsteen Also sing the songs that remind you of the good times, and sings the songs that remind you of the better times

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Young men in particular confuse pugnaciousness for faithfulness and bombast for courage. kindness isn’t compromise and emotional intelligence isn’t woke, fam

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Eugene Peterson's paraphrase of Rom 12:1 is as good a description of discipleship as you'll find: So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, & walking-around life—& place it before God as an offering

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Each pride month feels less and less about creating a public square which includes LGBTQ+ people and more and more about creating a public square which excludes those with a traditional view of sexuality.

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Herman Bavinck on his death bed: “My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.”

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We shouldn’t just strive for “balance,” but “fullness.” We want to embrace all God’s gifts alongside all God’s people! 🕊📖⛪️

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We finally decided what to give up for lent: sleep! Pennilyn Grace Messer, born happily and healthily this morning! 🙏

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Don’t listen so as to respond, listen so as to understand

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What's considered "evangelism" by many churches is really marketing, differentiating our congregation (cool & energetic) from the one down the street (uncool & boring). The "evangel" is an announcement, not a brand; & our enemy is sin, death, & the devil, not one another! ⛪✌️

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My favorite tidbit from the @DrSteveNichols RC Sproul bio is that his dog would get anxious when he left the house so he'd go into his office, start a cassette tape of his teaching, and sneak out the window.

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Do not conform to FOX or MSNBC, Twitter or Facebook, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Kevin Vanhoozer: “Christian scholarship is a ministry, not mastery. We don’t understand things so we can simply use them utilitarianly, but so we can use them doxologically—to the glory of God and the good of our neighbors.”

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What's considered "evangelism" by many churches is really marketing, differentiating our congregation (cool & energetic) from the one down the street (uncool & boring). The evangel is an announcement, not a brand; and our enemy is sin, death, and the devil, not one another!⛪✌️

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N.T. Wright: “Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment."

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What's considered "evangelism" by many churches is really marketing, differentiating our congregation (cool & energetic) from the one down the street (uncool & boring). The "evangel" is an announcement, not a brand, & our enemy is sin, death, & the devil—not one another! ⛪✌️

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Yesterday I taught our biggest membership class. Today our parking/seating was at capacity in both services. More telling, lines formed for prayer ministry as people began repenting & experiencing spiritual renewal like never before. & we’re NOT unique! God is doing something…

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While the seeker-sensitive era saw theological depth as an *obstacle* to evangelistic effectiveness, I think it's clear now that it's a *prerequisite.*

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@BillKristol We don’t need him weighing in on the election, we need him to help put out this fire. He and @BarackObama need to do a joint address calling for justice and peace. We have plenty of political hacks, we only have a handful of national statesmen.

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Our worship will lack reverence so long as we've bought the lie that casualness = humility & informality = authenticity

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While the seeker-sensitive era saw theological depth as an *obstacle* to evangelistic effectiveness, I think it's clear now that it's a *prerequisite.*

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Mark Noll: "Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to write end times books"

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@IVMiles For many pastors he was the first person that told them it was ok to just be a shepherd and not a CEO or leadership coach.

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…the solution isn’t to embrace one charism of the church to the exclusion of the others—that will just lead to being hurt in different ways by a different community. The goal is to hold all the gifts and callings of the church together.

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Just shared the gospel w a guy at sbux who has Asperger’s. He lost faith because of the bullying he experienced at church. Whether it’s to “win the quarterback, get the school” or “build a culture of emotional health,” any logic that excludes “weirdos” from church is damnable.

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Evangelicalism thrives as a renewal movement within particular traditions—Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican, etc.—but absolutely flounders when it becomes unmoored. Evangelicalism is like salt: great when complementing a main dish, but toxic when a dish unto itself.

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FWIW I’m not convinced this is Baptist thing. I think it’s an evangelical thing, and I think the difference is important. Baptist churches can be absolutely beautiful.

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I’ve declined invites to both gay weddings & divorce parties, for fear my presence wouldn’t communicate support for the individuals but affirmation of the proceedings. If one believes an act to be injurious, love forbids acquiescence. God help us walk the hard path of friendship.

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This by @PLeithart is convicting and a challenge for *any* denomination drawing those seeking stability our culture of chaos. His bullet points alone are more worthwhile than any book you’ll read on church planting.

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Few things reveal the rot at the core of evangelical ecclesiology like referring to pastors as "staff" and congregants as "attendees."

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Each pride month feels less and less about creating a public square which includes LGBTQ+ people and more and more about creating a public square which excludes those with a traditional view of sexuality.

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Dale Ralph Davis on the message of Jonah: "God doesn't just want a successful mission, he wants a sanctified missionary."

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Not everyone who supports women’s ordination is motivated by the sexual revolution. Not everyone against WO is motivated by patriarchy. People believe all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons. If you want to convince someone of an error, start by listening.

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Written in *1975* (!), God help us

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A lot of the “anti Big Eva” crowd excuse their shock-jock rhetoric as “frank truth telling,” when in reality it’s an unhealthy love of drama/attention. Nothing is more cringe than trying to pass off school-girl immaturity for boldness, imho.

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Eugene Peterson: "Being a Christian means accepting the terms of creation."

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Narcissists benefit from the God-centered reverence that comes from the liturgy. Snobs benefit from sitting under the simple proclamation of Scripture. Argumentative people benefit from the Spirit making head-truth a heart-reality.

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Hear me out: “The Case for Anglican Anglicans”

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If you’re in Dallas and don’t have a church to go to Sunday, the great Malcolm Guite will be preaching at All Saints Dallas and you will NOT WANT TO MISS IT!! Services are 8:00, 9:30, 11:00.

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Visited a local @thelcms church this AM. During the Eucharist, a lady w dementia wondered to the side of the sanctuary. The elder distributing the elements stepped out from behind the railing, left everyone who was kneeling, & took Jesus to where the lost one was. Luther won.

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I want more than cultural Christianity—I want everyone to have a vibrant faith—but I don't want less than cultural Christianity. At a time in which the fabric of civilization is this threadbare, the probs created by cultural Christianity (nominalism, hypocrisy, etc.) seem quaint.

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@HowardWKYT Her refusal to play the victim is striking. Every school in America should ask this reporter what in her past made her this resilient, and then put more of that in their classrooms and gyms. A masterclass in grit.

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If you don't follow @ericmetaxas because of your disagreements w/ him, you're missing out. You'd find his xmas special creative, funny, and original irrespective of politics! A sad features of our hyper-political age is that we shrink people down to their take on the POTUS.

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biographies of leaders > books on leadership

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I once heard the great Australian preacher Peter Adam talk about his history of suicidal ideation & clinical depression. He said before the onset of mental health challenges, he was a bold & thundering preacher, but afterwards his speech slowed & softened… 🧵

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Roasting heretics on the internet since 1996

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The Creeds are always better than what your “vision team” or whatever comes up with over coffee around a whiteboard

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Maybe a banal point, but if you don't find people, *especially* eccentric people, interesting and enjoyable, pastoral ministry probably isn't for you.

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Some tea to spill, as the kids say! 📢 👶🏻

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Happy and healthy girl! So thankful to see her!

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Young men, the single best thing you can do for your mental health is make friends with old men. Don’t worry about being “mentored,” just meet them early in the morning at the donut shop and listen to their half-true stories. That’s it.

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New Christian, our son Auggie! Take that, Satan.

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A few people asked about this pic. Not sure, but I like it because when my wife was 6 she saw RC in her church’s narthex—& when he saw her staring at him, he got a cup of coffee, *loaded* it w cream & sugar, & gave it to her. Don’t trust theologians who don’t like kids!

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RC Sproul was arguably the most effective communicator of the last century. I’ve always been struck by the question he’d ask his wife, Vesta, after each lecture or sermon. Instead of wondering, “how did I do?” he’d ask, “was I kind?”

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Pastors not being experts—in politics, psychology, administration, etc.— isn’t nearly as big a problem in the church as pastors thinking they are.

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After lots of discussion about the challenges of pastoral ministry, which are real, I thought I’d post an encouragement. A congregant sent me this pic of me & my first thought was: what a privilege. If you’re considering ministry, it’s worth it. It’s a cross, but it’s worth it.

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No one: Absolutely no one: Me: Here’s what the Baptists need to do… Thanks to Mere Orthodoxy for giving me space here to put my nose where it absolutely doesn’t belong, reflecting upon Robert Jeffress, Donald Trump, and the Rt. Rev. (?) @BethMooreLPM

Why We All Need Baptists to be Baptist - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The liturgy started sleepily this fourth Sunday in Advent, people trickling in later than usual. A traffic jam made traveling downtown to our Anglican parish especially difficult. It turned out the...

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The highest complement in pastoral ministry I’ve ever received was from a transgender friend who said, “I get the sense that you’re against us [the movement] but for me.” I think about those words a lot.

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Thomas Cranmer stuffed more scripture in the BCP than George Costanza had coupons in his wallet.

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A church that's more embarrassed by other Christians than it is excited about Christ will never grow

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Herman Bavinck “The [Anglican] Church has been recognized as a Reformed Church as much as the Presbyterian. This fact shows that Calvinism has room for the display of individuality, for that difference in character which must exhibit itself among the various nationalities.”

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I’m an urban pastor. Here’s what I’ve learned from years of interacting w our homeless neighbors & congregants on a daily basis: Mercy can start a relationship, but accountability forms true friendship. No one can feel respected and infantilized at the same time.

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J.C. Ryle: "We are not told that the unprofitable servant was a murderer, or a thief, or even a waster of his Lord's money. But he did nothing, and this was his ruin. Let us beware of a do-nothing Christianity. Such Christianity does not come from the Spirit of God."

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Fear God and you’ll preach to transform people; fear people and you’ll preach to transform God.

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Everybody talking about the US becoming a Banana Republic but in this economy we’d be lucky to be an Old Navy, smh

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if twitter goes dark pls mail me a letter outlining your thoughts on christian nationalism every morning 🙏

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As a pastor, it's easy to use social media to only share the W's, giving the impression we're constantly crushing life and ministry. To balance things out, here's a 🧵 chronicling everything that went wrong yesterday leading to the massive L that was my sermon.

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I mean, yeah, we’ve all seen Back to the Future. Had *any* historical event not happened maybe none of us would be here. So we shouldn’t make value judgements about the past? This is a profoundly dumb way to talk about history.

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Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: "All of us today would be in a worse spot if slavery never existed"

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Corinth hearing Rick Warren say the church at its birth is the church at its best

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Who's a character that scared the hell out of you as a kid?

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Who's a character that scared the hell out of you as a kid?

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Stott went on to embody a non-anxious orthodoxy, one that was as generous as it was grounded, clear as it was kind. May we all be more like Uncle John on this website. God, please forgive us.

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I argue here that "facts don't care about your feelings" won't do the heavy lifting that many think it will--engaging w/ an important new book by @NoahCRothman . @benshapiro

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The best gift a pastor can give a child is to take them seriously.

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Some reject (a) Butler’s understanding of sex as an icon. Some reject (b) his interpretation of the sex icon. Some reject (c) his communication of his interpretation of the sex icon Parsing these very distinct camps will reduce the heat and increase the light.

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Listen *for* the Spirit of Christ in tradition, listen *to* the Spirit of Christ in Scripture.

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I talked with a pastor-friend who was discouraged by a rude email from a congregant. I reminded him of W.H. Auden's letter to his pastor, which begins, "Have you gone stark raving mad?" And ends, "I implore you by the bowels of Christ..." So, it could be worse.

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Of the many things we’re thankful for this year, a sibling for Pennilyn is #1 !

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When someone tells me they’re reticent to embrace either theology, liturgy, or the Spirit because they’ve been hurt by “those sorts of people,” I GET IT! Really I do. But…

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When Francis & Edith Schaeffer began L’Abri, they had 4 rules. They wouldn’t: 1. Raise funds 2. Advertise 3. Recruit staff 4. Make plans What would they do? Pray. All of life is all of grace, & they organized their work to remind themselves of that reality. May we do likewise!

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Christians don’t arrange worship around their schedule, they arrange their schedule around worship. The church doesn’t go through time, time goes through the church.

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"We can give people their weekends back" Crosspoint City Church pastor James Griffin reveals they've added a Thursday evening church service so that families who travel on the weekend for kids sports or want to go camping can still attend more than twice a month. #Lordsday

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