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Parenting: It’s Never an Interruption
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Parenting: It’s Never an Interruption. January 12, 2011. Parenting is all about living by the principle of. Let me give you an example. We had planned a day at a local theme park with our children. I was anticipating a day of familial amusement park bliss. I was hoping that on this day my children would be self-parenting, and if God could throw in a fully sanctified wife, that would be cool! So I jumped in and said, “Do you want to fight? I do this because I have personalized what is not personal. I bark...
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Parenting: The Joyful Impossibility
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Parenting: The Joyful Impossibility. January 11, 2011. Now, Im about to write something here that may seem counter-intuitive and quasi-irrational, but here it is: That moment in the car was not dark and horrible. No, it was a precious moment of faithful grace. Rather than my burden growing heavier that evening, my burden lifted. Do I mean that suddenly parenting got simpler and easier? But something fundamental changed that evening for which I am eternally grateful. Getting to the Heart of Parenting.
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The Hardest Peace
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Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard. May 18, 2015. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Lifes Hard. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2015. 192 pp. $15.99. Is that vigorous shake. Kara Tippetts, a 38-year-old mother of four, died of breast cancer this spring. Rather than demanding death with dignity, Tippetts exemplified dignity while dying. Her final book,. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life’s Hard. When some of my friends heard I was reading. I starred the ...
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Don’t Take It from Me: Reasons You Should Not Marry an Unbeliever
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Don’t Take It from Me: Reasons You Should Not Marry an Unbeliever. January 22, 2012. You can find those passages in abundance, but when someone has already allowed his or her heart to become engaged with a person outside the faith, I find that the Bible has already been devalued as the non-negotiable rule of faith and practice. Instead, variants of the serpents question to Eve—“Did God really say? 8221; are floated, as if somehow. Does this sound like the kind of marriage you want? 8221; She did come to ...
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Leaders Are Encouragers
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October 13, 2011. Gracious words are like a honeycomb,. Sweetness to the soul and health to the body. Leaders can give you a list of ways you can improve. They know the areas that need adjustment, correction, or improvement. This is a necessary ability in leading anything well. They will not long tolerate the status quo, or the organization becomes stagnant, and we all know what happens to water when it remains stagnant. It starts to stink. Herein lies the power of encouragement. There are three areas in...
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Where Did All These Pentecostals and Charismatics Come From?
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Where Did All These Pentecostals and Charismatics Come From? November 18, 2013. Where in the world did all these Pentecostals and charismatics come from? In the explosive growth and geographical extension of Pentecostal and charismatic groups, we are witnessing one of the most if not. Most stunning episodes of Christian expansion ever. In the not-too-distant future Pentecostals will likely make up the majority of Christians worldwide. Such a reading and application of the book of Acts was long in the mak...
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Eugene Peterson on the Reading and Writing Life of the Pastor
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Eugene Peterson on the Reading and Writing Life of the Pastor. April 19, 2012. The aspiring teacher is a devout reader. Thats why The Gospel Coalition encourages pastors and lay leaders to read classic works of literature. Eugene Peterson, through books like. Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List. How has good literature, whether modern, classical, or ancient, shaped you in your pastorate, in your theology? You have previously mentioned Wendell Berry. Diary of a Country Priest. Now she know...
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Small Towns Need Jesus Too. People in big cities aren’t the only ones who need Jesus. Small towns need him, too. Desperately. READ MORE. Right Now View All. Being There: How to Help Those Who Are Hurting. September 2, 2016 Erik Raymond. SETI, Glory, and the Signal from Deep Space. August 31, 2016 Jared C. Wilson. Why Books Like This Matter So Much. August 27, 2016 Ray Ortlund. The Temple and the Tabernacle. August 27, 2016 Tim Challies. The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures. August 31, 2016.
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Gay Is Not the New Black
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Gay Is Not the New Black. July 19, 2012. The idea that same-sex “marriage” is the next leg in the civil rights race is ubiquitous. One of the clearest examples of the conflation of homosexual “marriage” and civil rights is Michael Grosss article in. In which he coins the now-popular phrase “Gay is the new black.”. Nor is this kind of thinking exclusive to the political left. When asked by. Even the California Supreme Court bought in to this line of reasoning. In a February 2008 decision they reasoned:.
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Deists Who Love Jesus (and Talk Like Freud)
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Deists Who Love Jesus (and Talk Like Freud). March 20, 2012. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, according to Smith, is the set of beliefs that includes:. 1 A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth. 2 God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. 3 The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself. 5 Good people go to heaven when they die. The God of the Deists was a far-away, radica...
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