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SBC Annual Meeting Recap
This past Wednesday, I shared with our church family my personal reflections on the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. Here is the video, as well as a few additional articles I referenced. Chuck Lawless: Ten Reflections on the 2018 SBC Annual Meeting My handout listing resolutions, motions, and Alabama stats: Southern Baptist Convention Report Baptist Press…
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Ripples #3: Blueprint for the [Early] Church
Is what was true for the early church true for us today? Well, yeah.
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Review of Steve Parr’s “The Coffee Shop that Changed a Church”
The Coffee Shop That Changed a Church: Discovering the Net Effect by Steve R. Parr My rating: 4 of 5 stars First off, full disclosure: Steve Parr is a friend. I’ve heard him speak on his “Why They Stay” research several times, and brought him to my church so they could hear it too. I’ve…
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Grace Given on the Way to Jerusalem
Common grace and saving grace: how God uses one to lead us to the other.
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On the Way to Jerusalem #2: Ultimate Urgency
Jesus said it’s a narrow door to Heaven. Do you know what the two keys are to that door?
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Stay on Target… Stay on Target
Right now I’m going through a daily devotional with several friends from church that is based on John Piper’s Life in the Spirit. It’s ten days of meditation on the person and the work of the Holy Spirit. This morning I was struck by this line from Piper: God sends the Holy Spirit as a…