Wright on Hell & Hell & Bell

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Wright on Hell Wright on Hell & Bell Surprised by Hope (Paperback) Surprised by Hope (Kindle)

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The Story Before the Story: Interacting with Foundationalism, Fragmentation, Story, and Kingdom

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The Story Before the Story is a straight forward presentation, which provides the reader of Scripture a simple but compelling introduction to reading Scripture as a story. This book interacts with four important concepts: foundationalism, fragmentation, story, and kingdom. Reading with a foundationalism concept without knowing it leads to a reduction of the text into [...]

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Are You an Epicurian?

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We have some interesting ideas about life. Most of them tied to Greek philosophy. In the church among follower of Jesus, we have tied our way of thinking, reflecting, and living around more Greek philosophy than Biblical theology. Here’s a recent presentation that deals with some of those issues. Enjoy!

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Machine Gun Preacher

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Opens September 23, 2011 at Select Theaters Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon, Souleymane Sy Savane, Madeline Carroll In this inspirational true story, Machine Gun Preacher is about Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned [...]

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Goathearding in the Suburbs

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Yesterday, I got an up close look at goats when the Westside Goat Girl brought a small herd of goats, fifteen of them, to trim back some of the blackberry bushes in my back yard. Here are some things that I saw while goatherding in the suburbs. First, there was one goat who was clearly [...]

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Do you trust you spell checker?

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Eye halve a spelling checker It came with my pea sea It plainly marques for my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache [...]

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Is Sunday Worship Really All About Me?

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Sunday, as I sat through a service at the local community of faith that my family attends, I had the following thoughts. We are so impregnated with individualism and consumerism. But, unlike a pregnant woman, we don’t realize it. Individualism and consumerism affects the olders and the youngers. It is not a respecter of persons. [...]

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Three Things I Learned From My Dad

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I only lived under my dad’s direct influence for eighteen years and only twenty-seven years in total before he passed on. I have lived longer without his physical presence (almost forty years) than I was privileged to live with his physical presence. Out of the many things he taught me three come to mind today: [...]

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Church: Open Space Technology

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What if church used Open Space Technology on occasion? The following are its four basic concepts: Whoever comes/is here are the right people Whenever it starts is the right time Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened Whenever it’s over, it’s over I might add, everyone gets an opportunity to speak. What [...]

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Book Review: googling God’s Will

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Book Review for Immediate Release by Jim Miller googling God’s Will: Why Keep Searching For It When It’s Not Lost? Winn Griffin Harmon Press (January 7, 2011) Years ago when I was first told that God loved me and had a wonderful plan for my life I believed it. I still do. But in recent [...]

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Yesterday and Today

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Share something that you learned yesterday. Notice something today. Technology is wonderful. Yesterday, I watched as my daughter, Jeramie Joy, who has a heart pace maker, put a pad over the area where the pace maker is and pressed a button to a monitor which collected information form the devise inside her chest and then [...]

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