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Archive for August, 2008
God is Big From Francis Chan
Posted in Theology, Videos on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Olympics, Come Back!
Posted in Just for Fun, Videos on August 28, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Today, as I continue to miss the Olympics, I give you the best of Olympic wipeouts.
(HT: Z)
7 Steps of Bible Study Preparation
Posted in Preaching/Teaching on August 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I mentioned that as part of my presentation at some recent conferences, I put together the 7 steps I use for Bible study preparation. I’m not assuming these are universal, but they have helped me organize my time and hopefully make my teaching style engaging, relevant, and self-revelatory. So here you go:
1. Read the [...]
Pinning Down Depth
Posted in Church, Preaching/Teaching on August 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had a really productive time at the Threads Connect Conference last week in Austin. The second of these conferences is in Nashville this week. For both of these conferences, I’m leading a breakout session that is trying to find the practical implications of one of the 4 key markers of Threads.
Those key markers, the [...]
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Posted in Just for Fun on August 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Finally. It’s here, and I could not be more excited. Much to my wife’s chagrin, it’s football season again. College, professional, high school – whatever. It’s going to be on, starting this week. Jana is thankful when looking at my fall schedule that I’m gone at least a weekend a month so that she can [...]
The Spirituality of Exercise
Posted in Theology on August 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Training for the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis has begun, and so as I’m trying to re-teach my body how to run 26.2 miles, I was reflecting a little bit on the spirituality of exercising the body.
If you’re anything like me, you have noticed that discipline in one area of life frequently leads to discipline [...]
Pray for Joseph
Posted in Friends to Check Out on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a family that Jana has met but I have not, although I have followed their blog for some time now. I don’t know exactly what to say, except their little boy Joseph was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. After many long months of treatment, they received recently the news that no parent [...]
On My Ipod Today
Posted in Just for Fun on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on my way today to Austin for the Threads Connect Conference. On my way, I’ll be listening to a few talks from last weekend. There are 3 from the greatest preacher I’ve ever heard, Dr. Robert Smith Jr. He preached at First Baptist Hendersonville this weekend. You can find the sermon audio here.
The second is [...]
Pinnochio, the Ugly Duckling, and Paul
Posted in Theology on August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I argued that you can see from the structure of Paul’s letters that he had a “believe, become, behave” model of the spiritual journey of Christ-followers. Today I want to continue that discussion with an illustration that I think is both silly and helpful. So let’s talk about a couple of children’s stories.
First of [...]
Believe, Become, Behave
Posted in Theology on August 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It strikes me that this might be a good way to summarize the way Paul wrote his letters. It seems like a pattern that the apostle doesn’t really concern himself with the “what you should do” part of Christian living until he has firmly established who God is, and then who you are in Christ. [...]
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