September 2010

Walking Through the Valley of Vision

September 30, 2010
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The Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers, and one of the most helpful and refreshing resources on prayer I have found. It’s one of two or three books on prayer that I regularly recommend to people who want to grow in the discipline. I have benefitted from reading and praying through the [...]

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Build: A Gospel Formed Man

September 28, 2010
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I’m looking forward to The 2010 Build Conference for Men in Normal, IL on October 23. This regional Acts 29 event is designed to equip men to re-center their lives around the Gospel. From the website: Men often find their identity in creating, fixing, and building things, but fail to recognize their own need to [...]

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New Sermon Series: Jude

September 27, 2010
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This coming Sunday we kick off our Fall sermon series that will take us through the book of Jude. Jude calls Christians to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints,” which means there is no room for spiritual pacifism in the Christian life. This requires men and women to [...]

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Zooming in on the Lagoon Nebula

September 24, 2010
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“Zooming on an image of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spectacular object is named after the wide lagoon-shaped dust lane that crosses the glowing gas of the nebula. The Lagoon Nebula is around four to five thousand light-years away in the constellation [...]

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Theology Pub

September 14, 2010
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Brian Malcolm took this photo during a recent Theology Pub at our new location. The old pub relocated and meeting there in the future is up in the air. So we’ve been gathering at another great pub in our city (click the photo for a larger version). One of the questions I get from other [...]

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The Church, The Effect of the Gospel

September 11, 2010
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For unless we want to say that in vain the Father sent the Son, in vain the Son suffered and rose again, and in vain the Holy Spirit was promised and sent, we must believe the effect of all these things, namely, that in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit the Father builds [...]

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A Colony of Heaven

September 9, 2010
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To avoid bewilderment among these many perspectives on the church, we need to focus on the apostolic gospel by which the church was founded. The saving truth of the gospel is to be believed, and proclaimed to the nations. The gospel is also to be lived, for holiness, no less than truth, marks the Spirit’s [...]

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