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An Encouragement From Jonathan Edwards
Rough week? Listen to what Pastor Edwards has to say to us today, from his Images of Divine Things (1728): The way in which most things we use are serviceable to us and answer their end is in their being strained, or hard-pressed, or violently agitated. Thus the way in which the bow answers its end [...]
Women of Genesis: Sarah
Today we discussed Sarah and her role in the foundation of God’s people, through whom would come Christ. Here’s some notes, and at the end, resources leading you into being a woman both like Sarah, and not like her. Take what is good from her life, redeem what is bad. She makes mistakes, like all [...]
Stuff I’m Digging Lately
Stuff I’m Digging Recently My Jesus. My woman. My city. David Crowder’s new one. Shane and Shane’s new one. Flyleaf The Reformed Pastor, by Richard Baxter. (It’s rockin’ my hair off.) Our study in Genesis on the women of Genesis. Personal devotions in various texts (1 Samuel, Job, Daniel) Good stuff, there…good stuff.
Getting Past Hello
I’m wondering: how, as church planters, do we move people from unchurched to meeting in groups with others to discuss Jesus? In my city, it seems as if there is a HUGE dividing line between the unchurched and Pharisaical Christians (there are devout Jesus-lovers, but they are the minority, I think). The unchurched want nothing [...]
A Psalm of Derek
When I first started following Jesus, I would write psalms as an act of spiritual discipline. I have since forgotten this practice…until today. I was sitting in Starbucks and I just started to write. Here’s what came out: Why must I be thrown at the feet of Your mercy?           Can I not bow on my own? No, indeed [...]