How do you come across the books that are on your “to read” list? One way I do so is by taking careful note of referenced works in the books I am already reading. For example, my buddy Jed and I started slowly working through Chester and Timmis’ Total Church. Jed lives out in Boston [...]
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I recently finished reading Lawrence Roff’s Let Us Sing for a seminary class I’m taking and came across these two quotes from the reformers worth sharing on music and singing:
Luther:
“I would certainly like to praise music with all my heart as the excellent gift of God which it is and to commend it to everyone…Next [...]
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Tim Chester has a great post over at Resurgence on Communities of Grace vs. Communities of Performance that is worth your time to read. The concluding paragraph:
Imagine such a church for a moment. Here’s Andrew: he sometimes uses porn because he struggles to find refuge in God. Here’s Pauline: she sometimes has panic attacks because [...]
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Looks like I forgot to post these way back when.
A few last Keller quotes on motivation for mercy ministry. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
“Many true Christians do not evidence the social concern that Bible says is a mark of real faith. How do we explain that? Though it may not be [...]
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In this post, I want to hit on two ways I deliberately connect with my daughters above and beyond our normal week-in and week-out routines. The first is what I call “Daddy Breakfasts” and the second is “Daddy Dates.”
Daddy Breakfasts
Daddy Breakfasts consist of me and one of my daughters heading out for Saturday morning breakfast [...]
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A guy from work that works the F-18 program pointed me to these videos this week. I had no idea that an aircraft carrier went up and down like this on the water. Each video is 10 minutes but really, really worth it. Crazy dangerous stuff. Amazed me.
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If you’re a conference goer, you might want to check this out. I have no intentions of going to the conference, but the video itself STIRS me.
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Over the last eighteen months or so, Andrew Bird has become one of my favorite musicians. I cannot get enough of the complex simplicity of his music. In a recent review titled, Hints of the Trinity, Christianity Today takes a look at the implications of some of his lyrics from this latest album, ‘Noble Beast‘.
Their [...]
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My wife and I catch the preaching of Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church from time to time and have benefited greatly from it over the last couple of years. We followed them through the Song of Songs (immensely helpful and practical) recently as well as their Doctrine Series, and the Religion Saves Series. We [...]
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