You Don’t Want That: A Moral Life

February 9, 2011
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I have these memories of my mother asking me, “What do you want for Christmas, Joey?” And, like most kids who are asked such a question I was ready with my answer(s). This was before the internet and Amazon “wish lists,” but I cataloged commercials in my brain and ranked the toys I wanted from [...]

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Truth Sobers

February 7, 2011
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“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” – Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death (1842)

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Your Note to Self

February 4, 2011
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My book, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself, is coming out in April. I wrote it to encourage others to engage in the habit of personally responding to God’s word in deep, practical ways. It’s a call to meditation, not for mere introspection or intellectual exercize, but to rerspond in ongoing faith [...]

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Desiring God Conference for Pastors

February 2, 2011
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Pat Aldridge and I went up to the Desiring God Conference for Pastors, and of course immediately met up with Steve McCoy. The conference was exactly what I had hoped for. You can check out the audio here – all of which is worth your time, though I was most impacted by Dr. Joel Beeke. [...]

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Why We Stayed a Day Longer In MN

February 2, 2011
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This photo of Lake Shore Drive is explanation enough why we didn’t head back to Chicago. (Photo: E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / February 2, 2011)

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Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed

January 30, 2011
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We sing a lot of hymns at Redeemer Fellowship. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed? is one of them. It was written by Isaac Watts in the 18th centiry, and bears the stamp of his theology. It is a rich, beautiful, cross-centered hymn. However, a refrain was written for the hymn over 100 years later [...]

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Note to Self Update: Endorsements

January 27, 2011
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If you are like me you are first interested in a book because of what it’s about and who is writing it. But, who endorses the book can be an encouragement to pull the trigger and get it (especially if the author is unknown). Ever wonder how the endorsement process works? I didn’t think so. [...]

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