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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Savoring the Gospel

January 17, 2011
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“Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully” 1 Timothy 1:8 It seems that every few years there is a fight over keeping the 10 commandments in the public square (a courthouse, a public school, etc.). I’m not interested in getting into the merits of the arguement for either position [...]

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Michael Horton’s Systematic Theology

January 15, 2011
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One of my favorite memories from college is a bunch of college students crammed into a dark dorm room on Sunday nights listening to The White Horse Inn on the radio. Wow, remember the radio? It was a weekly tradition for me a few others 15 years ago that led to great conversations. The White [...]

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iPhoneography: Study

January 14, 2011
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Pastor Jamie Page, in his study at The Church in DeKalb (Redeemer’s first church plant). TCD is a bright, gospel-centered work in the DeKalb, IL where real conversions and discipleship is happening. We’d love for you to pray for the church and the community. And yes, all church planters via Redeemer will have to shave [...]

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The Value of Knowing History

January 13, 2011
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I’ve been thinking of putting something together on the value of reading and knowing history, but concluded it would be more interesting to ask a historian to deal with this. So I emailed a friend Richard Bailey to get his thoughts on this. Richard is an Alabama native transplanted to Buffalo, New York, where he [...]

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