Unity at The Table

Posted on 02/17/2012 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

Today, I have a pleasure and privilege of guest-posting at Preston’s blog as part of his latest series, At The Lord’s Table.

I’ve been in church my entire life. I grew up in a non-denominational church (read: charismatic/pentecostal but doesn’t want the heat that comes with embracing the denomination) until I was 20. Then I began attending a First Baptist Church where God breathed life into me. Ironic, given that many of those I knew at my old church would consider this a “spiritually dead” church. Yet, that is where God chose to make me spiritually alive, or at least finally feel that way.

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Gladly Complementarian: in which I open a can of worms

Posted on 02/03/2012 by TransformingWords.org| 4 Comments

Recently, I read one of Preston’s posts at A Deeper Story. One of his posts was the first post I read at A Deeper Story, and I quickly began following both Preston’s blog and A Deeper Story. In this post, Preston writes about the tension he feels in his life when it comes to gender roles. I am absolutely grateful for thoughtful, deep posts about important topics, and am incredibly thankful that the grace and mercy of the cross allows for different and incomplete (or non-concrete) views on important topics. I began typing up a response, and it quickly grew too long to post as a comment, so I decided to post it here instead.
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Family Shepherds

Posted on 02/02/2012 by TransformingWords.org| 1 Comment

Darrin Patrick has said that there is a “man crisis” in today’s church. One could argue that this is a consistent theme among God’s people, and humanity in general, beginning with Adam. Mark Driscoll has said that in becoming a Christian, particularly for men, we must put forth an effort to be like Jesus and not like our earthly father Adam. While both of these statements ring true, it has left me with a question of how men are to step up and do what we can to resolve this “man crisis” by being more like Jesus and less like Adam. This is why I am incredibly grateful for Pastor Voddie Baucham’s latest book, Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes, which Crossway books was kind enough to send me as part of their book review program.
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life:unmasked – Out Of Gas

Posted on 02/01/2012 by TransformingWords.org| 5 Comments

Life: UnmaskedIn an effort to become more authentic in the blog, I’ve started doing something new, and joined Joy, a new writer I’ve come to know, in sharing about life: unmasked. I’m grateful for Joy’s allowing me to participate in this blog meme, and look forward to sharing some of my struggles, questions, and failures.
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Give Grace in Disagreement

Posted on 01/17/2012 by TransformingWords.org| 4 Comments

This past year has seen much controversy in the Church. From Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, to Jefferson Bethke’s viral video, Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus, to Pastor Mark Driscoll’s latest book, Real Marriage. Some of the reviews and blogs I’ve read have been fair, charitable, and accurate. Some have driven me to the point of absolute frustration, wondering what non-Christians think of such hostility toward a fellow Christian.
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A Gospel-Centered Approach to Reading Scripture

Posted on 01/16/2012 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

It interests me how whenever we read a story in Scripture, our first question is “What does this say about us?” when the whole of Scripture claims that the story of Redemption says much more about God than it does about humanity. To be sure, we need to ask that question, but we first need to ask “What does this say about Christ and the Gospel?”
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Forget the Rules!…but keep them

Posted on 01/13/2012 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

This is the attitude many Christians take when it comes to the Law, and especially the “laws” we seem to find in modern evangelicalism. We proclaim Christ crucified in our churches (I hope!) and that His death and resurrection was more than enough to save us, but then we somehow shift into this “Obey the rules” mentality when it comes to living the Christian life. We do this because grace is scandalous, and we are afraid of it because it removes from us any measure of control or ability to measure the amount of pride we want to have.
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Sharing the Wealth: 01-07-2012

Posted on 01/07/2012 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

Well, it’s the end of the week and time to share some blogs that I’ve read over the past week. It is my joy to share them with you, and I pray that God moves in you as He did in me when I first read them.
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life:unmasked – The Laughter

Posted on 01/04/2012 by TransformingWords.org| 7 Comments

Life: UnmaskedIn an effort to become more authentic in the blog, I’ve started doing something new, and joined Joy, a new writer I’ve come to know, in sharing about life: unmasked. I’m grateful for Joy’s allowing me to participate in this blog meme, and look forward to sharing some of my struggles, questions, and failures. And this blog has to be the most naked I’ve written in quite some time.
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Well, Here It Is…

Posted on 01/04/2012 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

The new year…the time when we “resolve” to somehow “be better.” The time when we look at ourselves and determine to fix that which we perceive to be wrong. We commit to lose that weight, stop drinking, go to church more, and finally stop letting our past dictate our future. The time when we abandon all that is gospel.
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