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Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship with Monday Work. Tom Nelson. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2011. 234 pp. $15.99 Work Matters is a welcome addition to my digital bookshelf because Tom Nelson, writing as a pastor, has effectively bridged the gap not only between Sunday worship and Monday work, but between the pastorate and the laity. I’ve [...]
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The true purpose of the human mind is to know God, love God, and love man through Jesus Christ.
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One of the best, and worst, aspects of being a Southern Baptist is our firmly held belief that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Absolutely everyone should have a platform to share that opinion. The fact that I can write what I’m about to write and publish it on this blog is evidence [...]
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Profoundly moving. From the first sentence to the last, ”URGENT” gripped my heart and mind. It penetrated my spirit and touched my soul. With heartbreaking clarity and honesty, author, Joe Donahue, shares the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. ”Urgent” is an accounting. Donahue gives an account of the sin of his father, and how those [...]
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Hey everyone. It’s been a crazy couple weeks in the SBC blogosphere between the convention and other “discussions”. I personally am taking a brief hiatus from the blogosphere for the month of July (and maybe August). The hardest part won’t be skipping writing and commenting, but keeping myself from reading everything going on out there [...]
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Since its initial publication in 1981, the missions anthology Perspectives on the World Christian Movement has been read (or skimmed) by countless seminary and college students, missionaries, and interested lay people. In my case, I got to read it in both undergrad and graduate classes (with detailed quizzes to ensure I hadn’t skimmed!). As my [...]
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Book Review- “Radical” by David Platt Following blogs and the general “word” on the ‘Net around the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, I kept hearing one surprising piece of information that didn’t involve convention motions or politics. The general buzz concerned a sermon at the Pastor’s Conference by a pastor from Alabama named David [...]
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In Bill Hybels’ book, Just Walk Across the Room, Hybels asks the reader to write a faith story in 100 words or less. The faith story is supposed to be used as an evangelism tool when time is short. If you only have 45 seconds to give someone a message, instead of telling them about [...]
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