The Art of Raising a Daughter
A great post from The Art of Manliness: I’m not going to lie, when I first heard that we were having a girl, a small tinge of disappointment hit me; I’d really been hoping for a boy. I know, turn me in for the jerk-of-the-year award. It wasn’t that I didn’t want a girl, it was just that I didn’t know how I would relate to, or help raise a sex that preferred tea parties to a rugby match. It was easy to imagine how I would bring up a boy. Strict discipline mixed with love and honor, lessons of wilderness survival, famous battles, endless wrestling matches and instruction in...
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Hilarious… HT: AF From StudentLife.com: This is a video we (Student Life) produced for a free youth minister event called Refuge. It was conceived as a satire for what I consider to be an unhealthy “rock star” culture that has been growing inside Christendom, as well as an encouragement for the unheralded heroes on the front lines of ministry. Our friends at the event seemed to get a kick out of it. Shot by Taylor Robinson and George Wiley, with video post by Jason Poole and audio by Eric Chapman and Nate Dregger. The role of Ignatius is played by our friend Josh...
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Some great resources on missional ecclesiology recently posted: Drew Goodmanson – Pastor at Kaleo Church in San Diego Download the PDF of the Practical Missional Ecclesiology Workshop. James Harleman – Pastor at Mars Hill Church (Lake City) Jonathan Dodson – Pastor at Austin City Life Spirit-Led Ecclesiology: Following the Spirit Through...
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The Total Church Training took place on March 9, 2009 at Mars Hill’s Ballard campus presented by Steve Timmis, Re:Lit Author and Director of Acts 29 Western Europe. Session 1: Session 2: Session...
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In recent years, there has been a shift in Evangelicalism away from pure systematic theology, which primarily emphasizes doctrine (God, Man, Christ, Faith), or pure practical theology, which stresses principles for biblical living, and a shift toward covenant/biblical theology, which places an emphasis on the unfolding revelation of God’s redemptive plan in history (Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration). The latter style of preaching and biblical interpretation focuses on seeing Scripture as one story, and interpreting everything in light of God’s grand meta-narrative. In our...
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