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• Horatio Caine & the Storefront Santas

  
  Robin Lee Hatcher's Write Thinking — Authority: 122
  I get a kick out of Steven Crowders videos, but this one really had me laughing. I watch CSI: Miami on Monday nights, and Steven really nailed Horatio. Steven promises that "No Target employees were actually shot during the making of this video… Except for the one." ~robin
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• How My Passion for Ministry Almost Ended My Marriage

  
  Parchment and Pen — Authority: 610
  It was 2000. Or was it 1999? Not sure. My wife and I had been married for three years. Katelynn was two; Kylee was on the way. We lived in a little one bedroom apartment about ten minutes from campus. I was living my dream as I started the four year ThM program at Dallas Seminary (DTS). Kristie was ready to get in and ...
  10 hours ago

• The Removal of Our Blindness

  
  Reimagining Church — Authority: 412
  There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, ‘If I could only see the world, I will marry you.’ One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see ...
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• Christian “Resistance”

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 139
  I thought I’d share a quote that profoundly affected some of my students when we were studying in Germany. We were in Leipzig which was in East Germany before the fall of the Wall. In the days and months leading up to the tearing down of the wall there were massive student protests throughout Germany. In Leipzig ...
  15 hours ago

• Fool’s gold?

  
  Already Not Yet — Authority: 126
  From Ray Ortlund : “Fool’s gold: a term for non-gold ore similar in color to gold, usually mistaken by beginning prospectors because of the brassy glitter.” In  The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God (1741), Jonathan Edwards pulled out of 1 John 4 the biblical indicators that God is at work, ...
  17 hours ago

• The Gospel that Saves

  
  Already Not Yet — Authority: 126
  “Some think of the gospel as so slender it does nothing more than get us into the kingdom. After that the real work of transformation begins. But a biblically-faithful understanding of the gospel shows that gospel to be rich, powerful, the wisdom of God and the power of God, all we need in Christ. It is the gospel ...
  18 hours ago

• Daily Bible Reflections-Be Diligent

  
  Sunflower Faith — Authority: 428
  My Daily Bible Reading Today’s Life Journal Reading is from: 2 Timothy 1,2,3,4 Scripture     14 Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not ...
  19 hours ago

• The Peaceable Kingdom by Henri Nouwen

  
  Windows Toward the World — Authority: 124
  All of creation belongs together in the arms of its Creator. The final vision is that not only will all men and women recognise that they are brothers and sisters called to live in unity but all members of God’s creation will come together in complete harmony. Jesus the Christ came to realise that vision. Long ...
  19 hours ago

• Nigeria:  Breeding Young Priests Through Youth Fellowship

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  Which minister of God would tolerate any hindrance to the flow of thanksgiving/offering procession during any service or special church event? This was the challenge the then Vicar of the All Saints Church (Anglican Communion), Ojuelegba, Surulere Lagos, Reverend Caleb Mmaduoma, now Bishop of Ideato Diocese, had 14 ...
  22 hours ago

• Christian Century: When depression leads pastors to suicide

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  What kind of personal pain would cause a 42-year-old pastor to abandon his family, his calling and even life itself? Members of a Baptist church in Hickory, North Carolina, are asking that question after their pastor committed suicide in his parked car in September. Those who counsel pastors say Christian culture, ...
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• A Christianity Today editorial: Death to deadly earnest discipleship!

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  "It is astonishing," wrote Karl Barth, "how many references there are in the Old and New Testaments to delight, joy, bliss, exultation, merry-making, and rejoicing, and how emphatically these are demanded from the Book of Psalms to the Epistle to the Philippians." Indeed, from "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the ...
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• A prayer for the feast Day of Karl Barth

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  Almighty God, source of justice beyond human knowledge: We offer thanks that thou didst inspire Karl Barth to resist tyranny and exalt thy saving grace, without which we cannot apprehend thy will. Teach us, like him, to live by faith, and even in chaotic and perilous times to perceive the light of thy eternal glory, ...
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• A. W. Tozer on Trials and Pain

  
  Robin Lee Hatcher's Write Thinking — Authority: 122
  A.W. Tozer is among my favorite Christian authors, and it never fails to amaze me how current his words from the mid-1900s are to today. Each morning I receive a devotional by Tozer from Literature Ministries International . Here is a post from Wednesdays email: Trials and Pain: It Works! ...Therefore most ...
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• Our Neutered Consciences: Calvin and the Awareness of God’s Judgment

  
  Mere Orthodoxy — Authority: 116
  One of the more interesting developments of Christian theology in the west was the development of the ‘conscience.’  Two years ago, I summarized Oliver O’Donovan on this theme : Clearly, we do sin sometimes. In those moments, we develop a self-awareness of the dividedness between our reason and our will, a ...
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• What Tree Are You Eating From? – Relationships #1

  
  This is Not a Test — Authority: 92
  In Genesis 2:9 we discover 2 important trees in the Garden of Eden – the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God instructs Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil because if if does he will die (v17). The 2 trees symbolise the choices we have every day in what ...
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• Should You Enjoy a Sermon?

  
  www.markdroberts.com — Authority: 130
  Recently I had the privilege of preaching at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. It’s always an encouragement for me to experience a vibrant, Christ-centered, mission-oriented church. Thus I felt invogorated to be part of this church for a day. I preached twice on Sunday morning in the traditional ...
  2 days ago

• Essentials and Non-Essentials: How to Choose You Battles Carefully (Chart Included!)

  
  Parchment and Pen — Authority: 610
  We talk a lot about this . . . essentials and non-essentials. In fact, at the Credo House of Theology (our headquarters), right when you walk in the front do, you will see written on the wall in Latin these words, in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. Translated into English, this means, ...
  2 days ago

• One thousand words later…

  
  Amy Letinsky — Authority: 112
  So I’ve only written 1,000 words since Thanksgiving.  Not so inspiring, is it? But God’s got my back.  He seems to want me to finish this thing. I went to my Christian Writer’s Association meeting last night, annoyed with myself that I can’t find time to write, when last month, I managed to do it.  ...
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• You Are What You Listen To (Part 1)

  
  Encouraging Words from Cary Schmidt — Authority: 114
  You’ve heard the statement “you are what you eat.” And, physically this is true—your body and health are merely products of what you digest. But rarely do we make the same connection to our spiritual lives. In other words, “you are what you listen to.” Have you ever considered that your musical listening ...
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• An Advent Meditation – “Advent Reflections #1″

  
  Windows Toward the World — Authority: 124
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