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“Jesus Calling” A Review

Tim Challies reviews Sarah Young’s enormously popular book Jesus Calling. In it, Young claims direct revelation from Jesus Christ. Oddly, while Young claims the entries in her book are the words of Jesus delivered to her, she cautions the reader…

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Like “priapistic teenage boys sniggering”

Ed Young Jr. is by no means the only pastor out there with a fondness for preaching and writing about sex. However, his latest project does prompt more than a few questions. Is all this “honesty” about sex truly helpful…

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What you want in a pastor…

Good stuff from Jonathan Leeman: AS IMPORTANT AS ANY OTHER QUALITYI’m not talking about a man who simply checks the belief box on the “authority” or “sufficiency” or “power” of the Bible. I’m talking about a man who whose conviction…

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Secrets Pastors Keep

I can certainly identify with much that is in this following list. Perhaps this will serve as a helpful way to inform our prayers for our pastors. From Ron Edmondson: 1. Leading from this position is overwhelming at times. We…

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Cherishing what we still precariously hold

For those of us in church leadership who are always under pressure to innovate, the following words from P.D. James present a relevant challenge: We live in an age notable for a kind of fashionable silliness and imbued with a…

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Sunday’s Sermon

On Sunday I preached from the messianic prophecy found in Isaiah 9. It is entitled “A Great Light” and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.

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Christmas Everyday…

Good stuff from Carl: The irony of the Christian Christmas is that the Christ child comes not because of any need of his own or any desire to fulfill a selfish or inwardly directed want; this child, the child in…

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The “Dear Leader” Dies

We may never know the extent of Kim Jong Il’s brutality and madness. We know that he tortured and murdered his people on a massive scale. Il the atheist insisted on being worshipped as a god. He routinely threatened the…