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What does the Resurrection Mean?

Posted in Church, Theology on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Via: Peter Ould

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Holy Week and Consumerism

Posted in Church, Society, Theology on April 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Good article by James Martin at Slate: Sending out hundreds of Easter cards this year? Attending way too many Easter parties? Doing some last-minute shopping for gifts to place under your Easter tree? Getting tired of those endless Easter-themed specials on television? I didn’t think so. Unlike Christmas, whose deeper spiritual meaning has been all [...]

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Books I have read: Your Church is Too Safe

Posted in Books, Church, Theology on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I am privileged to have been part of the Your Church Is Too Safe blog tour from Zondervan.  This is the latest book from Mark Buchanan who has written a number of books, and pastors a church in western Canada, he has a real passion for the local church. Mark begins the introduction acknowledging his boredom with the [...]

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Free eBooks from Francis Chan thanks to David C Cook Publishing

Posted in Books, Church, Theology on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

To celebrate Good Friday, David C Cook Publishing is offering 3 free eBooks by Francis Chan. They are all best sellers: Erasing Hell, Forgotten God, and Crazy Love.  This offer works in the UK as well as the USA. But even better, this is just the beginning. Every week, David C Cook Publishing will be giving away another free [...]

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Real Discipleship is Messy

Posted in Church, Theology on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Jonathan Dodson writes: Real discipleship is messy, imperfect, and honest. I wanted clean, “perfect,” and limited honesty. I preferred to disclose only my successes, to pass on my accumulated wisdom and knowledge while hiding my foolishness and ignorance. It’s not that I wasn’t making disciples—people gobbled up my platitudes and piety. The problem was the [...]

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Why God doesn’t tell you everything

Posted in Theology on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Fantastic thoughtful post by Trevin on “Why God doesn’t tell you everything”, check out this little clip: Sometimes I’ve wondered why God doesn’t reveal the specific plan He has for all of our lives. Now, I realize it’s a good thing He doesn’t. We wouldn’t be able to handle it. We’d cry like an overwhelmed [...]

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Is Easter Too Violent for Children?

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Church, Theology on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Russell Moore: Our children need to hear the Gospel. They need to see Jesus. That means they need to see both sides of skull place. That’s graphic, sure. It’s confusing, of course. And not just for kids. But it is the only message that saves. It’s the only message that prepares one for salvation. It [...]

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Twystematics – tweeting systematic theology

Posted in Theology on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Steve Holmes is producing systematic theology in tweet form: Twystematics is systematic theology on Twitter. Each tweet will be a self-contained statement of a doctrine; over time, the tweets will build together to form full statements of various doctrinal loci and, eventually, a full summary of the doctrinal content of the Christian faith (or at [...]

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Holy Week & Easter timelines

Posted in Church, Theology on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Two years ago for Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, Justin Taylor produced a harmony of Holy Week that included the relevant bible passages. Last year, Bible Gateway produced a Holy Week Timeline Visualisation.  The article is here, and they have produced a high-resolution image and PDF.

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Books I have read: How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens

Posted in Books, Theology on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As part of the blog tour for How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens I agreed to review some of the chapters on the Minor Prophets.  Dr. Michael Williams, professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. This book is aimed at the general Christian rather than a scholarly view, each book of the bible [...]

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