Like I mentioned in my last post, January is when I tend to do some reflecting on the past year. In this post I want to tell you about my favorite book from 2011: Tim Keller’s King’s Cross It’s hard to really articulate how much I’ve appreciated this book. The flow of the book is [...]
I’ve been a Christian for over twenty years now. I’ve had seasons of growth, seasons of dryness, seasons of ‘active ministry’, seasons of ‘rebellion’… Heck, I’ve been a ‘professional christian’ in various capacities. But right now, at 27 1/2 years old, with no important-sounding titles like ‘pastor of _______‘ or ‘_________ leader‘, I can honestly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 read this in the Scripture this morning, and I thought the ESV wording is really interesting: The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
