I spent Thursday through Saturday at the Advance 09 conference at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Advance 09 was sort of the springboard for Advance The Church, which you might describe as a movement dedicated to shifting the momentum of christianity in America from hypocrisy, politics, morality, pragmatism, and judgment to a hyper-focus on Jesus, [...]
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I just read this summary of this message, by Russell Moore, titled “The Devil Votes Christian Values: Why We’re Tempted to be Glorified Satanists Rather than Crucified Followers“. I can’t wait to listen to the whole thing. Listen to how he articulates some really powerful truths about how slippery the slope of idolatry can be: [...]
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I listened to this sermon by pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church this morning. I highly commend it to anyone who considers themself — or desires to be — a ‘leader’ of any kind of ministry.
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Yesterday I saw this post over at Zack’s blog (yes, another Zack). It describes an article based on a section of the book Bono In Conversation, where Bono essentially witnesses to an interviewer. I love this because it’s such a classic scenario, capturing the stereotypes and assumptions that so often blur our communication about the [...]
If I get to church Sunday and all we do is worship through these songs, I think that’ll be time very well spent… What’s missing?
Need something to focus your prayer life? Here’s one: Seven Christians detained based on suspicion of being Christian…
