Archive for October, 2008
Posted in October 27th, 2008
Yesterday was a great day at Eternity as we looked at the topic of “What Is The Church?” It’s always a helpful thing to know that if you’re going to start one, what is it exactly that we are talking about…
The bottom line question that I asked last night and I think everyone who [...]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2008
Church planting certainly is a life of variety. In the course of 24 hours, I have attended a board meeting for the Stained Glass Theatre to talk about the great partnership that God is building with them.
Then, because of a water leak that is buried underneath cubic yards of concrete and retaining walls, I [...]
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Posted in October 20th, 2008
Evangelism is not a making of proselytes; it is not persuading people to make a decision; it is not proving that God exists, or making a good case for the truth of Christianity; it is not inviting someone to a meeting; it is not exposing the contemporary dilemma, or arousing interest in Christianity; it is [...]
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Posted in October 17th, 2008
I thought this would be good food for thought. It’s from a book I’m reading right now by David Powlison titled “Seeing With New Eyes”. It’s a great book and I would highly recommend it to anyone…Powlison writes:
Those you counsel must know that God is gracious. They must receive and depend on [...]
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Posted in October 15th, 2008
…that Eternity may not be the church for me? Well…that’s what I’m saying if you believe that the church should make following Jesus more palatable and less costly for those who simply want a “get out of hell free card”…
Or, a guy named David Wells says it pretty good too:
In our churches we may have [...]
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Posted in October 14th, 2008
This past Sunday, I spoke on the centrality of the Bible in all that we do and say at Eternity. One of the things that I shared was a portion of sermon by Charles Spurgeon on “Faith Come By Hearing”:
Take another piece of advice. Hear better; hear with both your ears at once; hearken as [...]
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Posted in October 10th, 2008
James MacDonald, pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, IL has a new blog called Straight Up and one of his early posts flat hit the nail on the head. If this is going to be the norm over at his blog, I’ll be sure to keep reading:
Bottom line: at Harvest Bible Chapel we [...]
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Posted in October 8th, 2008
I met with our leadership team for Eternity last night and it was an awesome time, not because we scheduled events, talked about how things or going, etc (that’s all great stuff too) but it was awesome because we had a passionate discussion about why the Bible MUST BE the source of truth and practice [...]
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Posted in October 7th, 2008
As I continue to prepare and think about what God is doing at Eternity, one of the things that has struck me lately is how fascinated we all tend to be with ourselves. We search endlessly the depths of our souls in an attempt to discover deep, hidden stones that once we turn them [...]
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Posted in October 6th, 2008
Last night at Eternity was awesome. Tense…but awesome. We looked at “What Is Conversion” and simply looked at what the language of Scripture is and what does the Bible have to say about how we become partakers of the Gospel.
The band did a great job in my opinion. Definitely doesn’t sound like [...]
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