May 2012
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April 2012
8 posts
mtietje asked: Did you know that you can ask Matthew Tietje questions?
Oh my. I absolutely LOVE this! Simple, powerful, wonderfully done! #Easter
March 2012
7 posts
2 tags
It Ain’t Over
February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
4 posts
Thomas a Kempis on Prompt Obedience
Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace.
Announcements FAIL via ChurchMarketingSucks →
Nothing in the history of Christendom, save perhaps the Second Crusade, rivals the ineffectiveness of the church’s ability to accomplish an intended purpose more than the medium of in-service announcements.
This article challenged me. Golden Grove and I stink at announcements. I am praying that this will be an area of improvement for us in 2012…
Read the whole article here!
N.T. Wright on The Rapture
The American obsession with the second coming of Jesus — especially with distorted interpretations of it — continues unabated. Seen from my side of the Atlantic, the phenomenal success of the Left Behind books appears puzzling, even bizarre.
Few in the U.K. hold the belief on which the popular series of novels is based: that there will be a literal “rapture” in which believers will be snatched...
December 2011
4 posts
Herein is wonder of wonders: He came below to raise me above, was born like me...
– a Puritan Prayer
A church with no salvations is just a chapel.
– Phil Struckmeyer
November 2011
5 posts
12 tags
Geek Post: Life After Gizmo5
Earlier this year Google Voice axed Gizmo5 taking with it Gizmo5’s awesome SIP integration. At the time, I was using a Linksys PAP2T to connect via SIP to Gizmo5 and Google Voice which provided me with a free telephone connection in my home! It was a great set-up: Free calls to anywhere in the US and from anywhere in the world!
When Google killed Gizmo5 this April, it took my home telephone...
October 2011
10 posts
5 tags
September 2011
1 post
1 tag
August 2011
7 posts
2 tags
[A Church] can’t compete in a culture that has more & more options by...
– Dan Reiland
Defend the Bible? Would you defend a lion? Loose him; and let him go!
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~Charles Spurgeon