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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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Live Sent: Be The Church

Posted on 07/21/2011 | 4 comments

I started reading Jason Dukes’ new book, Live Sent:You Are a Letter a while back, but never finished it because I just got burned out with all the reading and writing I was doing. As I’m on track to start a small group in September, unless God intervenes, I felt that now was the time to get back into the swing of things, and this book was on the top of the list to re-read and finish. I’m only four chapters in and I’m absolutely confident that I can say that this book is vital to Christians who desire to live missionally (or reformissionally, for the Driscollites out there).

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Women of Faith: Part 1

Posted on 07/19/2011 | 3 comments

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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Weekend Reflections

Posted on 07/17/2011 | 3 comments

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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Ephesians 2:1-3

Posted on 07/12/2011 | 5 comments

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.

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