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Other People's Music: Big Buts
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Consider how your life, your heart, your thoughts are shaped by big buts. I'm serious. There are some incredible big buts:. God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved." (Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV). Some trust in chariots and some in horses, BUT. We trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Psalm 20:7 ESV). So you are no longer a slave, BUT. A son" (Galatians 4:7 ESV). This i...
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Other People's Music: Bandaids & Bulletholes: Supplication
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Bandaids and Bulletholes: Supplication. Memory Verse: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 8221; —Psalm 51:1-2. We must apply the eternal salve of Jesus’ salvation to our wounds of sin if we have any chance of recovery. There was a man who had two sons. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. And h...
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Other People's Music: Take Heart
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a fan of other people's music. In this case, 'music' includes any kind of human expression, such as a thought, a passion, or an idea that says - with perfection - the things I want to say without knowing how to say them. This blog is full of other people's music, but I hope to write my own someday. Maybe today. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Turn Around and Keep Walking. Life as a House. I Call You Friends.
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Other People's Music: Bandaids & Bulletholes: Introduction
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Bandaids and Bulletholes: Introduction. For this next series of blogs, I'm going to post lessons to a curriculum I wrote last year about dealing with sin (namely, the process of turning from it) called 'Bandaids and Bulletholes.'. This series is intended to be pertinent to an individual and equally effective when done with someone else or with a group of people. However you slice it, I hope it cuts deeply. The following is the introduction. Seemed like a good place to begin. The same is true of sin.
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Other People's Music: Isn't it ironic?
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But irony is also something very not. I often think of myself as an ironic character, chained and bound by her “tragic flaw.” I can’t seem to hear (or choose not to hear) when God graciously knocks at that fourth wall, bringing truth, bringing sight, bringing grace, rewriting the tragedy. Rather than stopping the show and letting him speak. But he keeps knocking. 8220;Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! The ironic life is the shameful life. Because ...
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Other People's Music: May 2013
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Bandaids and Bulletholes: Supplication. Memory Verse: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 8221; —Psalm 51:1-2. We must apply the eternal salve of Jesus’ salvation to our wounds of sin if we have any chance of recovery. There was a man who had two sons. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. And h...
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Other People's Music: November 2012
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Bandaids and Bulletholes: Confession. In reading this lesson over, I almost can't stop laughing. God's providence brings a smile to my face. I had no idea how much this lesson was going to learn me, so to speak. The threads God started to weave last year continue work their way through my heart—and yet they're only the fringes of his ways. There's still such a long way to go. What is it about confession that makes us cringe? The woman at the well. One of the biggest problems with sin is that it is deceit...
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Other People's Music: February 2011
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I'm currently reading a book called Leading On Empty. By Wayne Cordeiro. and it's good. It serves as a very practical and helpful tool in preventing burnout and helping you recover from burnout if you're already feeling its pangs. Cordeiro communicates as if he's an old mentor who understands, whose axioms are simple enough to absorb, accessible enough to transcend many contexts and deep enough to keep you wondering, "how do I make this manifest in my own life? After Christ for a lifetime. There are some...
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Other People's Music: February 2012
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I Asked the Lord. 1 I asked the Lord that I might grow. In faith and love and every grace. Might more of His salvation know. And seek more earnestly His face. 2 T'was He who taught me thus to pray. And He I trust has answered prayer. But it has been in such a way. As almost drove me to despair. 3 I hoped that in some favored hour. At once He'd answer my request. And by His love's constraining power. Subdue my sins and give me rest. 4 Instead of this He made me feel. The hidden evils of my heart. Life as ...
