The Music I Study To: Worship Music

January 26, 2011
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The Music I Study To: Film Scores (Part one) The Music I Study To: Jazz (Part Two) The Music I Study To: Worship Music (Part Three) The truth is I study to a lot of different kinds of music. While writing my book, Note to Self, the music in the background varied from film scores, [...]

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Plant!

January 25, 2011
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Plant! is an upcoming conference on church planting organized by Sovereign Grace Ministries that features a diverse group of speakers who will teach and dialog together about the gospel, the church, and the need to start new churches. It looks great. Check out the deets: Date: March 24-26, 2011 Location: Covenant Fellowship Church, Glen Mills, [...]

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The Music I Study To: Jazz

January 25, 2011
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The Music I Study To: Film Scores (Part one) The Music I Study To: Jazz (Part Two) The Music I Study To: Worship Music (Part Three) I’m not even sure exactly when I got into jazz, but I know I found it through my appreciation for the more technical styles of heavy metal. If you [...]

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The Music I Study To: Film Scores

January 24, 2011
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The Music I Study To: Film Scores (Part one) The Music I Study To: Jazz (Part Two) The Music I Study To: Worship Music (Part Three) From time to time people ask me if I listen to music while I study, and if so what do I typically play? I actually do listen to music [...]

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iPhoneography: Are You Ready?

January 22, 2011
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This is Coach Ryan strapping Elias’ color onto his leg before his first match at today’s wrestling tournament. He lost his first match, but won his second by pinning the other kid which landed Eli in third place in his bracket. In both winning and losing he has been learning a lot and loves this [...]

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Francis, Preaching, and the Gospel

January 18, 2011
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Last night I linked to Dr. John Kossler’s post where he shared some thoughts on the place of words in the Christian life and pushed back on the words often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, “Preach the gospel. If necessary use words.” I appreciate what John had to say. Other’s don’t (I’ve heard from [...]

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A Message We Must Speak

January 17, 2011
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Dr. John Koessler has a great post up on the place of words in the Christian faith. As a Christian and a preacher, I could not help thinking how important the voice is to the Christian faith. As Stephen Webb observes in his book The Divine Voice: “Christianity has an oral quality.” Christianity and public [...]

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