Stuff Christians Like is a great high concept site that has the potential for both fun and worthwhile insight. It’s based on the more famous Stuff White People Like. One example is the linked post: Youth group rules. (Posted using ShareThis Stuff.) Even though I’m too old, they still let me run around with the …
Justin Taylor has a post about John Piper’s call to enter the pastorate and serve as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The post marks the thirtieth anniversary since the commencement of that calling. The book, ‘Desiring God’ was my introduction to Piper and also another marker post in my love for the …
You might know that the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet. But did you also know that the sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so! This and other pieces …
Maybe you don’t like to call it ‘membership’. Perhaps you’d prefer ‘covenant’ or ‘partnership’ or some other term. I don’t want to get tangled up on that. The issue is: who are we, as Christians, in specific and intentional partnership with on a local basis? Kevin DeYoung writes about ‘Why Membership Matters‘. I thing he …
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