*** Preface. My buddy Brent has given some inside info in regards to the Genesis of this debate that most of us were unaware of. His information seriously hinders the integrity of my pressupositions that brought about this post. This being the case, please read the comments to find out how big of an idiot [...]
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” Some are saying that in the next generation, the government’s chief job will be to devise ways of keeping a growing mass of people entertained, because machines will have taken their jobs” No Little People, Schaeffer p. 85.
Schaeffer was quite prophetic as he wrote in the 1970’s, and even then he had some cautionary [...]
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Websters Dictionary defines a bonus as, “something in addition to what is expected or strictly due: as a: money or an equivalent given in addition to an employee’s usual compensation.”
When I was a kid my parents would give me five dollars for good grades on my report card. Not average grades but a B+ or [...]
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As primarily an individualist transit culture, we are often unable to comprehend the honor culture in which Jesus lived. In a time of limited mobility in which the culture you were born in would be the one you would spend the rest of your life, honor and your reputation was everything; once it was gone [...]
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I was fortunate enough to be at this conference and hear Chandler give this message. Its not something that can be captured on podcasts or video, but as I sat in Mars Hill Church hearing Chandler give this message the work of the Holy Spirit through him was evident. Dude is [...]
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If you have a bracket filled out on ESPN.com go ahead and joing the group mattandryan
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This one is not long and it is WORTH 4 minutes of your time. Trust me.
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Ryan and I would like to celebrate one of our favorite young pastors, Matt Chandler, by giving him his own celebratory week on the blog. This guy thinks we should be ashamed and repent for linking to a sermon of Chandler’s:
I have to say I think this Matt Chandler guy is a danger to the [...]
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Here is a sermon Matt Chandler preached that has stuck in my mind for a few weeks now. It is one of the most helpful and impacting messages I have heard in quite awhile.
I would implore all of you to listen to it and apply it to your life.
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According to Time Magazine (which my wife uses as Ambien every night) “New Calvinism” is one of the most powerful ideas of our time shaping American culture. Now I am not sure if this is the same as “Neo-reformed” but either way its quite remarkable that a theology that had seemed to have gone the [...]
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