Well, my life isn’t awkward enough, so I decided to apply through BookSneeze to get the chance to blog a review about the Women of Faith conference coming to Dallas. Ironically enough, I was selected. (Ok, you can stop laughing now, there will be other guys there…I checked.) Their theme for this year is how God and His love is “Over the Top”.
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Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Crucifixion, Divine Plan, Evil, God, God's Will, Gospel, Imagine, Jesus, over the top, Pain, Religion, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross, women of faith
A few months ago, Bill Seal, one of our elders at The Village and a good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer. Much like our lead pastor, Matt Chandler, it was a brain tumor. From what I’ve been told, the difference between Chandler’s tumor and Bill’s is that Bill’s was on a different side of his brain. I forgot all of the details as to why, but this was apparently even more critical than Chandler’s because of the location, and Bill is 67 where Chandler is much younger.
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Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Crucifixion, Divine Plan, Evil, God, God's Will, Gospel, Jesus, Pain, Religion, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross
I apologize for it taking so long to post this. This blog is going to be fairly academic in nature, and I was trying to find a way to communicate the appropriate emotion behind it so that it wouldn’t seem so matter-of-fact as it’s such an important text. Then over time, I just forgot about it. Over the past few weeks, though, through the course of conversations with some people, I really became pressed with how much we love our sin. This realization drove me back to this text, and I decided that I needed to go ahead and post this as is, and hope that the heart behind it comes across.
If you’re new to the blog, or just need a refresher, it may help to review what we’ve already covered in the Ephesians series (scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the first post).
Alright, we left off in the previous blog stating that Paul, at a high level, compares our salvation to Christ’s resurrection to communicate the drastic change that took effect at our salvation. GOD MADE US ALIVE! We were spiritually dead because of sin and God breathed life into our very soul. He resurrected us from our spiritually dead state and made us alive in Christ Jesus. So not only will we be resurrected physically as Jesus was, but we have already been resurrected spiritually.
Posted in Ephesians
Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Church at Ephesus, Crucifixion, Divine Plan, Ephesians, Evil, God, God's Will, Gospel, Jesus, Pain, Paul's Epistles, Pauline Letters, Religion, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross, Unity in Christ
Since I was 14 music has played a key role in my life. I never really made it into the musician world due to lack of rhythm and/or coordination, but I have always loved how music can make or break a movie, set an atmosphere, make rush hour traffic almost tolerable, and even set the mood for a church service. This can be done through instrumental pieces alone, or by compelling lyrics to drive home the message the pastor delivered. One of the things that I love about being a member of The Village Church is their commitment to not only have excellent musicians, but deep theology in the lyrics of the songs they choose when leading us in worship. Which is why I am elated about the release of their new worship album, God Of Victory.
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Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Church at Ephesus, Crucifixion, Divine Plan, God, God Of Victory, God’s Will, Gospel, Isaac Wimberly, Jesus, Matt Chandler, Michael Bleecker, Missional Living, Pain, Religion, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross, The Village, The Village Church
When we think about suffering, we are prone to think about how bad it feels, to become inward focused, to ask “Why me?”. When we actually experience suffering, we flesh out the values that we really hold to be true: whether we really believe that God is of first importance, or if we naively believe that the world should revolve around us. We rarely ever stop to think about anything outside of ourselves. We often don’t stop to realize there’s a bigger picture, and a purpose behind the pain.
Posted in Bible Study
Tagged Christ, Christianity, Church, Church at Ephesus, Crucifixion, David Platt, Divine Plan, Egyptians, Ephesians, Evangelism, Evil, Exodus, God, God’s Will, Gospel, Hell, Israel, Israelites, Jesus, Joseph, Joseph and the Coat Of Many Colors, Missional Living, Pain, Radical, Religion, Sovereignty, Suffering, The Bible, The Cross
