August 2006

Works the World Understands

August 31, 2006

I have this excellent collection of Puritan sermons next to my reading chair. Six volumes, each weighing in at over 600+ pages. I was reading from it this week and wanted to share a quote. From a sermon on Mt. 5:16, Christ here intendeth that we must abound especially in those good works which the [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday

August 29, 2006

“Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang they’ll say they scraped it from that who scored it from this who bought it off so, and after four or five connections the list’ll always end with the Pin. But I’ll becha you got every rat in town together and said ‘show your hands’ if any [...]

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Thoughts on Sufficiency

August 28, 2006

Scripture is God’s true, perfect, delightful, inspired and sufficient word to the world. While every Christian I know affirms all of this, in practice the sufficiency of Scripture seems to be getting far less attention, and I am convinced that it is the most important aspect of Scripture for the church in the 21st century [...]

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Union University Events

August 24, 2006

This year I have been to the SBC, Together for the Gospel Conference, The Founders Conference and am set up to hit the Desiring God Conference in Sept. Even our small, local Association is having a leadership conference featuring Darrin Patrick, Daniel Montgomery and others. There appears to be an increase in gatherings worth attending, [...]

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Give it Away

August 21, 2006

This past weekend the small town we planted our church in had its big annual festival: people come from all over for the parade, rides, games, food, vendors, prize animals, etc. What makes this sort of thing so important is that the community gathers together. I say this because in the bedroom community our church [...]

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Stats and Thanks

August 17, 2006

This blog averages 450 or more unique readers a day. Sometimes the number is in the upper 500′s; on Sundays it drops to the low 300′s. Today I had over 1000 unique readers without putting up a new post. Why? Kevin Cawley’s “My Del.icio.us World” post referenced my Top Ten Tuesday list, which was linked [...]

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Free Derek Webb

August 16, 2006

I am late on this, but I just found out. Derek Webb will be launching FreeDerekWebb.com on Sept. 1st where you will be able to download his album, Mockingbird, for free in its entirety. It is a fantastic album that deals with “many sensitive issues including poverty, war, and the basic ethics by which we [...]

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