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• Whole-souled Devotion to Christ

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  “As a soldier follows his general, as the servant follows his master, as the scholar follows his teacher, as the sheep follows its shepherd, so ought the professing Christian to follow Christ. Faith and obedience are the leading marks of real followers, and will always be seen in true believing Christians. Their ...
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• Spiritual Formation for SHALOM

  
  Random Musings from a Doctor's Chair — Authority: 132
  Random musings and reflections on life, God and all that stuff (movies, comics, science fiction, spiritual formation, Christian education, biomedical ethics, post modern parenting, books, theology and philosophy)
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• Filled Up and Poured Out

  
  Revitalize Your Church — Authority: 132
  We are filled up to be poured out. Fill up with love -- and then pour it out. Fill up with faith -- and then pour it out. Fill up with hope -- and then pour it out. Fill up with joy -- and then pour it out. Fill up with the Spirit -- and then pour it out. Were blessed to be a blessing. If we fill up. but dont pour ...
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• The Nature of Forgiveness

  
  Caught in the Middle — Authority: 92
  Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things that confronts humanity. Nations fight wars over hurts that go back literally hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of years. The conflict in the Balkans in the 90s is a good example of how, for hundreds of years, Bosnians and Croats have fought because at various times in ...
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• A Missional Vision of Theological Education: The Root of the Problem

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  There is one sure fire way to undermine the character of Christian witness and mission – bind them to systems of coercive power. To the great detriment of the Body of Christ, this is precisely what has happened in the cultural phenomenon of Christendom. To understand what this has to do with theological ...
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• SOAP Journaling: A Resource for Biblical Reflection

  
  The Feral Pastor — Authority: 107
  Early in 2003 I encountered a simple devotional resource that Ive been using ever since. Created by Wane Cordeiro of New Hope Christian Fellowship , its called the Life Journal , but I always think of it as my SOAP journal because of the acronym it works with: S - Scripture O - Observation A - Application ...
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• Home-Based Faith Formation

  
  The Feral Pastor — Authority: 107
  An interesting conversation has been taking place on Facebook that I wanted to share with you. Here are some excerpts: Chris: Im amazed at how many congregations are challenging parents to invest in their kids faith formation. Almost viral actually! Melissa: Why are you amazed? Thats a good thing, right? ...
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• Writing Out Passion with Grace

  
  Laura's Writings — Authority: 123
  MW says "passion" is driving, intense, or overmastering emotion. If God shapes and uses, and all is with grace, how should passion look on blogs? --- Twitter - Facebook
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• The Supreme Way to Worship God

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  "...faith glorifies God because it acknowledges that life must be lived in complete dependence on him.... The supreme way to worship God is not to work for him (Rom.4:4-5) but to trust that he will fulfill his promises." -- Thomas Schreiner, commenting on Romans 4 in "Romans (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the ...
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• When You Dont Feel Like It

  
  Revitalize Your Church — Authority: 132
  John Bloom has written a great post over at Desiring God -- When You Dont Feel Like It, Take Heart .
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• "An Earnest Call For Evangelical Leaders To Recover The Gospel..." by Ray Ortlund, Jr.

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  "A wave of authentic revival sweeps over the church when three things happen together: teaching the great truths of the gospel with clarity, applying those truths to people’s lives with spiritual power, and extending that experience to large numbers of people. We evangelicals urgently need such an awakening ...
  3 days ago

• Book Review: The Liturgical Calendar

  
  iCrucified — Authority: 118
  The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister, available through Thomas Nelson Publishing , marks the fifth book in the Ancient Practices Series that I have read. I have not been disappointed by any of the books and have learned from them all. This particular volume was of particular interest to me since my own tradition ...
  3 days ago

• Running on E

  
  WithoutWax.tv by Pete Wilson — Authority: 526
  I had the incredible opportunity yesterday to speak with Jeff Henderson at an event we put on for the staff at Cross Point and Buckhead church. Jeff said something that I’ve been thinking about a lot the past 24 hours. He said, “Nobody is responsible for your spiritual replenishment except for you.” When ...
  3 days ago

• Practicing the Discipline? of Celebration

  
  http://loveacceptforgive.wordpress.com — Authority: 120
  Christians are supposed to be serious and dour all the time, right? Isn’t this what the Bible teaches us?As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at [...]
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• More Like Jesus

  
  GRACE & PEACE — Authority: 109
  “To become more like Jesus is to feel increasingly unable to do life, increasingly wary of your heart. Paradoxically, you get holier while you are feeling less holy. The very thing you were trying to escape – your inability – opens the door to prayer and then grace.”  - Paul Miller, A Praying Life
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• A Missional Vision of Theological Education: Preliminary Thoughts

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  After having given several posts to the consideration of bi-vocational ministry , its relationship to missional ecclesiology , defending it as a spiritually formative leadership model , and then commenting on its relationship to theological education , I have been thinking more and more about how we are equipping ...
  4 days ago

• For Veterans Day...

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  Lincolns Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so ...
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• Walking With Jesus

  
  My Spiritual Journey:The Journey of a Blue Collar Christian. — Authority: 121
  .... my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. - Gal.4:19 20 Walking with Jesus can be a very disturbing experience. Just when you think youve got it all together, he ...
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• A New Way of Struggling

  
  The Link Between — Authority: 107
  Read this poem this morning in “A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants“.  Thought I’d share:To struggle used to beTo grab with both handsand shakeand twistand turnand pushand shove and not give inBut wrest an answer from it allAs Jacob did a blessing.But there is another wayTo struggle with an ...
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• The Lords Tender Mercy

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  “Never, never let us curtail the freeness of the glorious Gospel, or clip its fair proportions. Never let us make the gate more straight and the way more narrow than pride and the love of sin have made it already. The Lord Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. “He does not regard the quantity of faith, but ...
  5 days ago

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