I had never heard of Louie Giglio until today, but I ran across the following clip from one of his messages on “How Great is Our God.” If there had been no video, I would have sworn that I was listening to John Piper: the voice and the style sounds exactly like him, even Piper’s [...]
In my last update, I was thrilled to report Jessica’s (not her real name) progress going into the holiday season. My wife and I were honored to join her family for Christmas dinner at Betel’s town center church in Birmingham, England. We drove two hours on Sunday morning, 23 December 2007, and eventually found our [...]
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Posted 08 February 2008
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Daily Scribe § Homelessness § Personal § Prayer § Wales § marginalized
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Also tagged: alcoholics, Betel of Britain, broken people, Christmas dinner, Christmas reunion, drop outs, drug rehabilitation, ex-offenders, friends and family, heroin addiction, marginalised, marginalized, outcasts, prostitutes, unconditional love
[Continued from Part 2] So what do you do when you’ve exhausted your Christmas options? Admittedly, my inherited tradition was a bit schizophrenic: trying to balance Santa Claus and Jesus Christ on the same day, obsessing over gifts and then trying to concentrate on God’s gift in worship, attending the drunken office parties as well [...]
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Posted 11 December 2007
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Christian life § Daily Scribe § Personal
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Also tagged: A. W. Pink, birthday of Jesus, celebrating christmas, Charles Dickens, Christmas, commercialism, giving up Christmas, ignoring Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Jesus' birthday, nativity plays, Santa Claus, secular holiday
There's a great story, told in the first person, about a young woman in San Diego who was baptized as a child in the Mormon faith, became an atheist through her college years, and softened to agnosticism. While she was pursuing her interests in evolutionary psychology, she began listening to Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the [...]
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Posted 26 October 2007
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Christian life § Culture § Evangelism § Sexuality
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Also tagged: agnostic, atheist, barriers, biblical sexuality, Christian sexuality, Christianity, Evangelism, evangelism barriers, premarital sex, sexual boundaries, unbelievers
What does Hebrews 10:25 mean in relationship to church worship services on Sunday? Does the New Testament command these weekly meetings or have we simply assumed something that the biblical writer (and the Holy Spirit) never intended to say? As someone involved in church leadership, even on a denominational level, for many years, I need to answer these questions. Are we talking about something that is a cherished custom or is it more than that: a biblical command?
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Posted 04 August 2007
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Worship
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Also tagged: Christian worship, church discipline, Custom or Command, guilt and manipulation, Hebrews 10:25, human tradition, intertestamental period, Jewish customs, New Testament, not forsaking the assembling, synagogue, weekly gatherings, what does the Bible say, worship services
