lifeasmission

I was listening the other day to a message given by a teaching pastor that I respect.  He was teaching on baptism, specifically whether or not aspiring members needed to share the official doctrinal stance of the church before being accepted as members.  Rather than addressing that question directly, he decided to take a round-about [...]

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Lost in ponderings of Heaven this afternoon, I had this thought…

The “Heaven” held out to us in Scripture is not a place or state where everything is finally the way I want it, but a place or state where everything is finally the way God wants it.  It is the fulfillment of all that God [...]

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I received my Economic Stimulus Payment the other day and wondered what I would do with it.  As I thought and prayed, I decided to join the ranks of those who called the whole premise of the program into question.
Feel free to accuse me for oversimplifying things if you want, but bottom line, the whole [...]

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A friend posted this quote this morning and it got me thinking…

Prophets yell because their hearts are on fire.  They scream at the world trying to wake us up.  They can’t help it  After all, God is in their throats.
Steven James
Having felt something of a prophetic bent in the way God has wired/gifted me, I [...]

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This year I had the good fortune to be able to host an annual New Year’s Eve Party for a bunch of my Malone friends and plenty of others.  The party was doubly significant in that it also marked the completion of a bunch of restoration that I’ve been doing on my home.  For [...]

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A new friend shared this quote with me the other day from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work, Life Together.
He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

As I was thinking about this, I [...]

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