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Parenting: The Joyful Impossibility
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Parenting: The Joyful Impossibility. January 11, 2011. Now, Im about to write something here that may seem counter-intuitive and quasi-irrational, but here it is: That moment in the car was not dark and horrible. No, it was a precious moment of faithful grace. Rather than my burden growing heavier that evening, my burden lifted. Do I mean that suddenly parenting got simpler and easier? But something fundamental changed that evening for which I am eternally grateful. Getting to the Heart of Parenting.
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Parenting: It’s Never an Interruption
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Parenting: It’s Never an Interruption. January 12, 2011. Parenting is all about living by the principle of. Let me give you an example. We had planned a day at a local theme park with our children. I was anticipating a day of familial amusement park bliss. I was hoping that on this day my children would be self-parenting, and if God could throw in a fully sanctified wife, that would be cool! So I jumped in and said, “Do you want to fight? I do this because I have personalized what is not personal. I bark...
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The Hardest Peace
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Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard. May 18, 2015. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Lifes Hard. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2015. 192 pp. $15.99. Is that vigorous shake. Kara Tippetts, a 38-year-old mother of four, died of breast cancer this spring. Rather than demanding death with dignity, Tippetts exemplified dignity while dying. Her final book,. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life’s Hard. When some of my friends heard I was reading. I starred the ...
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Don’t Take It from Me: Reasons You Should Not Marry an Unbeliever
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Don’t Take It from Me: Reasons You Should Not Marry an Unbeliever. January 22, 2012. You can find those passages in abundance, but when someone has already allowed his or her heart to become engaged with a person outside the faith, I find that the Bible has already been devalued as the non-negotiable rule of faith and practice. Instead, variants of the serpents question to Eve—“Did God really say? 8221; are floated, as if somehow. Does this sound like the kind of marriage you want? 8221; She did come to ...
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Where Did All These Pentecostals and Charismatics Come From?
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Where Did All These Pentecostals and Charismatics Come From? November 18, 2013. Where in the world did all these Pentecostals and charismatics come from? In the explosive growth and geographical extension of Pentecostal and charismatic groups, we are witnessing one of the most if not. Most stunning episodes of Christian expansion ever. In the not-too-distant future Pentecostals will likely make up the majority of Christians worldwide. Such a reading and application of the book of Acts was long in the mak...
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3 Things to Learn from Olympians David Boudia and Steele Johnson. Nowhere has God been more uniquely displayed in Rio 2016 than in the testimony of divers David Boudia and Steele Johnson. READ MORE. Right Now View All. August 20, 2016 John Onwuchekwa 9Marks First Five Years Conference. In Memory of DJ Official (1976 2016). August 20, 2016 Reach Records. The Cinema, Lacrosse and the Brutal Truth about Christianity in Australia. August 20, 2016 Rory Shiner TGC Australia. August 19, 2016 Jared C. Wilson.
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God Does Not View Your Labors as ‘Filthy Rags’
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God Does Not View Your Labors as ‘Filthy Rags’. August 13, 2014. When it comes to our justification—our legal standing before God—our own good works are in no way the grounds of God’s declaration that we are “righteous.” Indeed, the gospel is good news because we are saved not by what we have done, but by what Christ has done. We are accepted by God not because of our works, but in spite of them. So what does God think of our good works after we are saved? This larger biblical context can provide the pro...
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The Missing Demographic in Urban Churches
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The Missing Demographic in Urban Churches. September 30, 2014. Christians are not yet close to matching the pace by which the world is moving into cities, but make no mistake, Christians are urbanizing and migrating. As believers follow Paul’s footsteps to evangelize the most influential cities in the world, we rejoice. Yet ask any urban pastor or church planter his top five needs and somewhere on that list will be a demographic for whom the city remains a fearful and inhospitable place. Certainly there ...
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‘Kingdom through Covenant’ Authors Respond to Bock, Moo, Horton
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8216;Kingdom through Covenant’ Authors Respond to Bock, Moo, Horton. September 20, 2012. It is both gratifying and humbling to have our work. Reviewed by such scholars as Darrell Bock. We thank them for their comments and time. KTC) is the construction of a metanarrative that we believe corresponds to Scripture better than that propounded by either covenant theology (CT) or dispensational theology (DT). We also sought to establish a. Progression of the covenants. As humans, our minds work by using analys...
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Publications
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Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry: A Practical Guide. Edited by Cameron Cole and Jon Nielson. Missional Motherhood: The Everyday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God. Praying Together: The Priority and Privilege of Prayer in Our Homes, Communities, and Churches. Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed. Prophetic from the Center. Mbugua, Maura, Mbewe, Grudem, and Piper. Revisiting ‘Faithful Presence’: To Change the World,’ Five Years Later. Edited by Collin Hansen. The Restora...
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