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I hate bullies.  Well...I don't hate them, per se.  I just extraordinarily despise them.  I hope that's not the same thing as hate.   Bullies are mean.  "Bullies are buttholes," my little brother used to say.  They take some sort of sadistic joy in belittling other people, making them feel about an inch tall, and encouraging them to go spend the rest of their life in a hole somewhere.  And the

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There are some hours...days... weeks... months... years... and perhaps even decades where one may feel that there is just not enough rope left to hang on.  Hanging on for wife or husband, for kids, for income, for house and home...pretty much anything... seems so challenging and completely overwhelming that if one more bad or sad thing happens, the rope will break, and you are gone.  I know I've

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This year's Equipped for Mission included Ed Stetzer, Terry Virgo, John Lanferman, and Tim Chambers.  I only live-blogged four of the sessions, and my notes are listed here below.  I've also listed the live-blog notes by Seth Hoffman from the Confluence Blog. Session 1: Observations and Current Trends by Ed Stetzer (Session 1 on Confluence) Session 2: How the Kingdom of God is Breaking Forth

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How can leaders help those in suffering and make the most of crisis? This assumes suffering and crisis are moments of risk and opportunities. They almost always include intensified temptations to sin. And therein lies the risk. Sin is the greatest problem, therefore sinning is the greatest risk in suffering. But Jesus was named such because He came to save His people from their sin. 1

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From Passivity to Activity 1 Peter 4:10-11 Because of the condition of the world today, we must now live as subversive agents of God's kingdom in the world, both as a sign of the kingdom, and as an instrument of the world. The Bible speaks of us as an alien, for example. This communicates that we do not actually belong to this country, or even this world. We are aliens living for a different

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How the Kingdom of God is Breaking Forth Through Its Agents in the World Matthew 4:12-17 Verse 17 is a key verse in this context because of its beginning: "From then on..." From then on, Jesus began to preach the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God has come because the King has come. And His message in verse 17 is a summary of all future messages about the kingdom. "Repent of your sins and

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Observations on Current Trends Is Christianity, in fact, in decline in the west? This is the report among those who are far too loose and sloppy with statistics. "Christianity in America won't survive another decade unless we do something now." This was one recent statement. Crises may sell books and conferences, but they don't sell hope. Many who promote bad news already have a program to

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What Was it Like in the Garden of Eden? When I read the account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, I'm often stunned by the thought of what that must have been like.  To have been able to walk around in a Garden, totally naked with the woman you love, without poison ivy and mosquitoes and gnats...  All I can say is WOW!!!  That must have been some place. They were completely naked. 

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Many years ago my wife and I lost a child.  His name was Joshua Owen.  And he died the day he was born.  Actually, Owen died before he was born, in my wife's womb.  That's obviously a day I'll never forget.  We went to the hospital on his due date, for a regular checkup, and then were headed with our oldest son to LAX to pick up our mothers.  They were flying out from Georgia to help us

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In all my years of walking with Jesus, discipling young men, and leading in churches, I've never met a young man who didn't struggle with sexual immorality of some kind - whether hetero- or homosexually stimulated.  That includes a whole array of immoral activities.  I could list them here, but the conscience is generally the best guide.  If you feel even the slightest tinge of guilt in

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I was walking with a young man in some discipleship last night.  He was frustrated that as a young man the temptations to immorality were so strong, and that the consequential guilt was so profound.  He expressed a great deal of disallusionment with the struggle, and had been manifestly plagued with confusion as to why this was happening...and how it could happen.  After all, he did have the

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As I work through Ezekiel in my daily communion times, I'm struck by so many things that are difficult to understand.  When I got halfway through the prophet's work, only to find that good ole' John Calvin didn't finish expositing it, I was both shocked and put at ease.  I was shocked because Calvin finished commentary and preaching on almost the whole Bible, but went on to other books before

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Parenting With the Gospel Preaching the Gospel to Our Kids: Pointing Them to Christ as Their Substitute Dealing with Sinful Anger Thinking Through Evangelism to Kids The Gospel and the Matrix of Conflict in the Home How Do You Share the Gospel When You Discipline Your Kids? Gospel-Centered Obedience How the Gospel Applies to Tattle-Telling Applying the Gospel to Tattle-Telling...Again Am

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How I'm Trying to Handle Idyllic Christianity The Biblical Gospel is the Only Cure for Idyllic Christianity Beware of Sneaky Legalism Interrogating the Legalist Within Principalizing Scripture: A Trend AWAY From Gospel-Centered Interpretation Accessorizing the Gospel, Part 1 Accessorizing the Gospel, Part 2 And Deliver Us From...Perfectionism, Part 1 And Deliver Us From...Perfectionism,

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Introduction Part 1: Make Sure You're Born Again Part 2:  Embrace Your Struggling as a Sign of Life Part 3:  Remember You Were Born the FIRST Time with a Malfunctioning Body Part 4:  Remember You Were Born the SECOND Time into a Supernatural War Part 5:  You Have a New Identity in Jesus...No Matter What Sin You End Up Committing Part 6:  Being Conformed to Jesus is a Life-Long Process

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If repetition is the key to learning, then parents must be great teachers. Right? I mean how many times do we give the same instruction to our children, day after day, week after week, month after month? Too many to count. And it's all because as human beings we are forgetful. Stuff leaks from our brains really, really fast. To be fair, once something is told to us even just once, we are

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Here's what kind of God I serve. The God who turns circumstances of evil into opportunities for righteousness...the God who turns what is wrong into what is right. He is a God who will NOT be overcome by evil, but a God who will overcome evil with good. He is a God who will use those who hate Him simply to show His mercy and grace. And in all these things, He uses His own people to accomplish

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Great article by my friend John Armstrong today.  An encouraging must-read as we continue to pursue a simple lifestyle in order to be ready to help the poor and needy. "[T]hanks to men like John R. Stott the global evangelical Protestant church began to move back to its earlier emphasis in the last few decades of the twentieth century. This movement is still going on and the younger leaders

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What is REAL Repentance? Rediscovering the Difference Between True & False Repentance (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Re Dependence Day 2011(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Redeeming the Time - Envisioning and Embracing YOUR Mission to Know God and Make Disciples 2(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Redeeming the Time - What the Gospel Says About Your Time(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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2. True Strength is Found in Weakness Violence begets violence. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. A show of strength only ends in a “pissing contest” and there is always one who is stronger than another. As a result, this thinking produces a never-ending but always-reproducing cycle upon cycle of violence and show of force. That is part of what’s wrong with the world. And

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