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Live Sent: Moved To Action

Posted on 08/01/2011 | 2 comments

Contemplation
For those new to the blog, I’ve been reading Jason Dukes’ new book, Live Sent. As I’ve been reading, I’ve been posting some of my reflections. One of those reflections was partially in response to a FB event to picket the Rick Perry prayer rally happening on August 6th. With this particular post being so controversial in nature, it drew some comments from the person organizing the picket. As I typed out my response to the first comments, I kept feeling like words weren’t enough.
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Overview of Islam

Posted on 07/30/2011 | Leave a comment

In order to help prepare those attending today’s Saturday Seminar on Understanding and Engaging Islam, our discipleship resource pastor, Geoff Ashley, put together a series of posts on the Merely Theological blog that I thought were worth sharing.

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Top Ten Theologians

Posted on 07/27/2011 | Leave a comment

Tim Kimberly of Parchment and Pen, one of the blogs that I follow, is putting together a list of the Top Ten Christian Theologians he believes to have had the most positive affect on orthodox Christianity. Through the brief introduction to Church History that I’ve been able to expose myself to, I couldn’t help but find that we (or at least I) know very little about the early church and the affect the forerunners of that day had on how we think about and believe in God today.
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LUST!: Not for Men Only

Posted on 07/21/2011 | Leave a comment

Ok, I don’t normally do this, but I just read the most amazingly accurate blog addressing the core problems women have with lust, and how the church can help combat them.

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10,000 Reasons

Posted on 07/21/2011 | Leave a comment

I’m not a huge fan of the homemade video, but I LOVE this song!

10,000 Reasons is the title track for Matt Redman’s latest CD.

Christianity Today lists the top tracks as: “We Are the Free,” “Endless Hallelujah,” “Magnificent”

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