We spent our time at our Band of Brothers meeting this morning in prayer. To get us started, we spent some time praying over the names and attributes of God. We tried to worship and praise Him not for what He has done for us, but simply for who He is. It was a GREAT …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sep
10
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Sep
09
Shattered!
Everyone has dropped a glass or a plate and seen the glass shatter into a million pieces. It might have been just a momentary lack in judgment or a little stumble over something on the floor, but the result is a mess that can not be cleaned up. Even if you collected all the pieces …
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Sep
08
A Transformed Heart
I had a lot of people ask me about the book I mentioned Sunday at church. The name of the book is “Crazy Love”, and the author is Francis Chan. Here is a blurb on it: The God of the universe is crazy about you! His love is the most powerful thing in the world …
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Sep
05
The Pursuit of God: The Sacrament of Living
Let’s get straight to the point. In the final chapter of Tozer’s The Pursuit of God, he says this: One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters is the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas – the sacred and the secular. I would tend to agree that we …
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Sep
04
The Pursuit of God: Meekness and Rest
In Matthew 11:28, Jesus said we could come to Him and He would give us rest from our burdens. I’ve heard quite a few thoughts on what sort of burden He was referring to and what kind of rest He offers. Tozer gives a pretty typical one in this chapter of The Pursuit of God: …
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