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2 Mission trips later...pt 1
There is much to be said about life in the aftermath of a mission trip... There is even more to be said about life in the aftermath of two back to back mission trips. I survived. I went. I returned. I am tired. I am mostly recovered and gearing back up for the usual preparation for Bible studies and quiet times and activities with the youth. ( Read more... ) -
mistaken Dog Identity
So...I was just out walking Bean and Ginger. As we were finishing our last turn and coming back to the apartment, I noticed someone walking up to our door. The girl was walking back to her car as we were coming back to our driveway. She was carrying a Jack Russell. She asked me if I knew who the dog belonged to. She said that her mom thought ( Read more... ) -
Funny thought of the day...
So I'm sitting down to finish working on my Sunday School lesson for the Middle Schoolers and I noticed on of the books that I'm reading to flesh out the Wednesday night youth lessons. The Middle Schoolers are going to be studying the 10 Commandments this summer and the Wednesday night youth group is going to focused on prayer...When I saw the ( Read more... ) -
Blast from the Past
So I found this today when I was cleaning out a small bookshelf next to my bed. It's the first "hit" that Ashton and I had when we were Foolish Wisdom.
Mirror
How could I ever be so selfish, to pursue happiness as if it were subjective.
I so love controlling my own life, but blame everyone else for my strife.
This vicious degradation, tore me apart ( Read more... ) -
hmmm
So I feel mildly accomplished (or at least I did yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Preaching
So, I finally got to preach at our church here in Charlotte! This past Sunday our pastor was out of town, so he had asked me to prepare a sermon to preach. So I did. I've gotten lots of good feedback since then. I just thought that I would post the link to it for anyone who might be interested. It has the full text of it and also the audio ( Read more... ) -
Why is Ridderbos so confusing??
So, I'm reading a ridiculous book right now. It isn't ridiculous in the sense of stupid, just way hard to understand! Part of it is that the guy was dutch and it's translated into English, so you get sentences with average lengths of 150 words or some such nonsense...but I think that I found the quote that sums up Ridderbos ( Read more... ) -
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"The end of preaching is not information, it’s persuasion."
Mike Bullmore -
Sermon
Philippians 2:19-30 ( Read more... ) -
An encouragement in time of doubt
“…let every one of us go as far as his humble ability enables him, and prosecute the journey once begun. No one will travel so badly as not daily to make some degree of progress. This, therefore, let us never cease to do, that we may daily advance in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair because of the slender measure of success. How little ( Read more... )