Zack on February 17th, 2010

This is five minutes from John Piper’s message from this year’s Desiring God Conference For Pastors.
Piper taught for an hour on what he has learned from C.S. Lewis over the course of his life.
Almost every single sentence is quotable and I STRONGLY encourage you to go download it or watch it (for free, of course).
But [...]

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Remember this series of posts from several months ago?
I wrote about the book “Religion Saves (and 9 other misconceptions)” by Mark Driscoll, head pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle.
The book is based on the sermon series by the same name (which you can watch, listen to, or download for free).
Well, this month, like every [...]

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Check out this excerpt from Seeing And Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper (download the whole book as a .pdf file for free here).
The title of the chapter is “The Glory of Rescuing Sinners, Not Removing Satan“:
Now without sin and law to condemn and accuse and oppress us, Satan is a defeated foe. He is [...]

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Zack on October 30th, 2009

I’m not too sure how many of you out there can relate, but I LOVE Christmas music.
Every year, around this time, I start to get an itch for some Christmas music, and I always go back and forth because I don’t want to be sick of it before Christmas actually rolls around.
Besides the basic warm [...]

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Zack on October 1st, 2009

Derek Webb is one of the best musicians that you’ve probably never heard of.
He has a niche of followers who love his music and wrestle with his message, but I’ll bet that if you’re over 25 and reading this, then the name is new to you.
If that’s the case, do yourself a favor and go [...]

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Zack on September 22nd, 2009

One of the things that Stephanie and I love about our new church home is the intense emphasis on national and international missions.
The Summit Church has a vision to plant 1,000 churches in the next 40 years — most of them in un-reached countries around the world.
That’s right: one thousand churches
One vehicle for this effort [...]

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There’s an article this month on the Desiring God website titled 10 Reasons Why Believing in the Sovereignty of God Matters.
If you consider yourself to be a follower of Jesus, or someone interested in God in any capacity, I highly recommend that you take a minute and go read it.
The idea that God is ’sovereign’ [...]

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Zack on August 11th, 2009

You may have never noticed it before, but on the right sidebar of this blog, there’s an “Un-reached People Group Of The Day” banner…

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Zack on August 1st, 2009

A few weeks back, I shared my excitement about a new book, Religions Saves, and Nine Other Misconceptions.
I wrote a few posts since then, talking about individual chapters (1 and 2), but today I’m excited to be on the official blog tour. So, here’s my overall review of the book (and please forgive me if [...]

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Zack on July 24th, 2009

Most of my recent experience as a follower of Jesus has been learning about the Church: what it is, is not, should be, and eventually will be.
I have worked to get a church started, worked to get a church established, worked with pay and without pay…
And this is still a topic that Steph and I [...]

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Zack on July 17th, 2009

A couple nights ago, we went to mom and dad’s to hang out and have dinner.
Josiah had cut a couple of teeth and added some new baby babble and an army crawl to his bag of tricks since they had last seen him, so we went and had some catfish and played some boccie ball [...]

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This is a short video from Sermon Jams featuring a sermon snippet from a modern-day hero of mine: John Piper (who is on twitter!).
Listen to him spell out Paul’s teachings about displaying Christ as your treasure!

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Zack on June 8th, 2009

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, His [...]

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This video needs no introduction or explanation (I am re-posting it from here):

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Zack on May 13th, 2009

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:
Satan does not [...]

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