I’m a huge Alan Jackson fan and someone posted today on Facebook the song he wrote after 9-11 - here’s the video from him performing it just a short while after the attacks:

As I sat and watched that video this morning, that day (a day you can never forget if you were in any way [...]

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In a world where everybody is protesting something, there are certainly some protests and displays that are sure to garner more attention than others.  A church in Florida deciding to publicly burn the sacred text of the Islam faith is sure to qualify.
Since I am a pastor, and thereby uncritically placed on the same team [...]

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Wow, I look on the blog and see that it’s been almost one YEAR since I last did anything related to this blog.  Crazy how time gets away from you.  And for me, crazy how the urge to write comes and goes.  I feel it tonight though and want to share.  You see, tonight I [...]

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This is the first session of a new podcast that I am doing called “A Few Minutes With Marc” in which I’m attempting to help start discussions, answer questions, provoke thought, or just help in any way I can for us to think Biblically about questions or topics we face in our day to day [...]

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We have become a church, a society, and a culture in America that is extremely fascinated with ourselves.

It is in this environment that a pastor who longs to implant the Word of God firmly into the lives of those whom He finds under his watch will have to “counsel” and “shepherd”. Perhaps there are [...]

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Thereafter, he became not a planet revolving around the central Sun, but a sun in his own right, around which everything else must revolve — AW Tozer

That was one way Tozer crystallized sin and as I’ve encountered various lives in the last eight months of planting Eternity, I’m beginning to appreciate its simplicity and profound [...]

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In our Religion Is Garbage series at Eternity, we’ve been talking about delusion, division and this week we’ll take a look at legalism. I was reading a sermon on Genesis 3 by Charles Spurgeon this morning and I found this paragraph particularly helpful:

The only way to repel Satan’s subtlety is by acquiring true wisdom. [...]

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This past Sunday, I talked about our value of Learning at Eternity and simply asked the question: “When you die and you open your eyes and see Jesus, Is He going to be a stranger to you?”

This morning, my own question hit me upside the head. These past few weeks have been amazingly [...]

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Our January newsletter is now available over at the blog.

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Matt Schmucker of IX Marks has some good thoughts on parenting. This might be a good list to print out and put in the bathroom.
(HT: Challies)

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