Don’t Waste Your Sports
Don’t Waste Your Sports Sermon by C.J. Mahaney 1 Corinthians 10:31 Sunday, August 31, 2008 Covenant Life Church; Gaithersburg, MD 57:34 run time; 13.2MB MP3 Download here. “Participation in sports must be informed by the knowledge of God. We have a tendency, when considering the topic of glorifying God in sports, to proceed immediately to practical application and to prematurely consider specific ways we are called to glorify God in sports. But any practical consideration must first proceed from a theologically informed understanding of the character of God as revealed in...
read moreThe Church Needs Men
Scott Thomas, director of the Acts 29 Network, has done a series of blog posts outlining a number of things he would do differently if he were planting or re-planting a church today. His fourth point addresses the topic of men in the church, asking the question of whether we are developing men who are mules, stallions or donkeys. See the excerpt below. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Seven Things I Would do Differently as a Planter – Part Two by Scott Thomas 4. I would focus on developing young men for the...
read moreDriscoll on Nightline
I thought Nightline’s piece was pretty balanced. Driscoll himself said this about it: “I want to personally thank the crew at Nightline for the recent feature on Mars Hill, myself, and my family. This interview was one of the first where I felt that the reporter did not write the story and simply show up to get a few photos and quotes to finish it.” Here is the article that came out a week ago: Pastor Dude’s Mega-Church Draws Crowds The references to sexual issues relate to Mars Hill’s latest sermon series on The Song of Solomon. And what he says about...
read moreResolutions | Job
So I’m on my chronological reading plan. It’s slow going, which is good because Genesis is so rich, and so much of the Bible points back to these early chapters. I finished Genesis 11 yesterday, which tells the story of Noah’s descendents and introduces us to a young boy named Abram, son of Terah, who would become Abraham, the father of God’s people. I opened my reading guide this morning and found an abrupt shift to the middle of the Bible, as I saw that my next passage is Job 1-5. In a chronological Bible, The Book of Job is integrated with Genesis because Job lived...
read moreESV Study Bible | Tullian Tchividjian
Watch as Tullian Tchividjian describes all of the ESV Study Bible’s key features. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.775216&w=425&h=350&fv=] Tullian Tchividjian | Senior Pastor, New City Church William Graham Tullian Tchividjian is a Florida native, a grandson of Billy and Ruth Graham, the founding pastor of New City Church, and a visiting professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. A graduate of Columbia International University (philosophy) and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Pastor Tullian is the author of The Kingdom of God: A Primer on the Christian...
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