Category: Links
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Stand Alone Post: Read through Desiring God with John Piper!
Beginning Thursday, March 31, 2011 from 12:00-1:00 PM (EST) John Piper will be hosting a series of five interactive roundtable discussions with the guys at Bethlehem College and Seminary based on his book Desiring God. And they will be live-streaming it on the web. This is a great opportunity to reacquaint yourself with Desiring God, or to read it…
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Lesson #5: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Bites from sheep and the sovereignty of God.” This week, we continue with Lesson #5 in the series “What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 Years Ago.” Number 5: You must remind yourself daily of this simple, but profound and incredibly comforting truth: God is sovereign and in…
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Stand Alone Post: A La Carte – Quotable Quotes
My “quotes” file was beginning to overflow, so I thought I would pass on some of the best ones I’ve collected in the last few months: “Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.” – J. I. Packer “Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill…
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Lesson #4: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Feeling discouraged? Want to ‘throw in the towel?” Today I continue in the series “What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago.” So far, we have looked at three of the 12 lessons. This week we come to number four. Number 4: Ministry will always…
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Lesson #3d: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “The dangerous draw of pragmatism.” This week, we continue with our focus on where we derive our primary identity from…our ministry or from Christ. Last week we looked at the first two “dashboard lights” that signal that our identity is being derived from our ministry rather than from Christ. Today we look at numbers…
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Stand Alone Post: Marriage Vows, the Average Human, Our Facebook Obsession and More
Till Death Do Us Part – In 1990 Robertson McQuilkin resigned his post as president of Columbia Bible College and Graduate School in order to take care of his beloved wife Muriel, who stopped recognizing him (due to Alzheimer’s) in 1983 and went to be with the Lord in 2003 at the age of 81.…
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Lesson #3c: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Four dashboard lights to signal that your identity is misplace.” This week we continue with our focus on where we derive our primary identity from…our ministry or from Christ. I am taking several weeks to “camp out” on this particular point (Number 3 in this series) because out of the 12 points I will…
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Lesson #3b: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Who or what defines your identity (who you are)?” This week we continue with our focus on where we derive our primary identity from…our ministry or from Christ. Number 3: Your identity is defined by your relationship with Jesus…not by your ministry! Where we derive our primary identity from will have a profound impact…
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Lesson #3a: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Who or what defines your identity (who you are)?” This week, we return to the third lesson I’ve learned (or I should say, still learning) after reflecting on my time in the pastorate. (As a side note: realize that this particular series of blog posts are primarily related to men in the pastorate, but…
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Lesson #2: What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago
Subtitle: “Live to an audience of One.” Some of you may recall a series of blog posts that I began back in November entitled “What I Wish (as a Pastor) that I had Known, Understood, Believed and Lived 30 years ago.” I said that I would share “12 Lessons” (out of 50 that I started…