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An introductory course on logic could really serve the cause of the gospel among younger generations …
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I love to discuss, well, pretty much anything with young people. I love to get to know them, listen to them, ask questions of them (and then listen to their responses). I also enjoy challenging them (once relationship is established)—especially re: why they believe what they believe. I hope that the young people in my life would all say that I love them and I am genuinely interested in them in persons (because I do and I am). I also hope that they would say that I dearly hold to certain beliefs—I would even die for them. And because I…
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Shouldn’t we pause, remember, and say thank you?
I am grateful for another Memorial Day; another year of freedom, paid for at the highest price. Sophia is helping Fred and me to teach Ella all about Memorial Day: And this year Sophie even had the opportunity to specifically thank some military families in our local community through an essay contest that one one of our local American Legion posts (The Andrew Pearson Post 117) sponsored to try to encourage greater participation in Memorial Day services. This is Sophia’s essay (she is nine years old): And this is her conclusion: “Even though I’m a little scared when the trumpet plays “Taps” and then the loud guns go off, I am…
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Analyzing the Logic on the Bag of Rainbow Goldfish Crackers
I cringed as I read it, but I was grateful when a friend linked to this excellent article by Alastair Roberts: Rob Bell and Don Draper — The Ad Man’s Gospel I cringed because it was true and thus, it made me sad: “If the theologian of the 16th century was a lawyer, the theologian of the 21st century is an ad man.” “The ad man doesn’t persuade his customer by making a carefully reasoned and developed argument, but by subtly deflecting objections, evoking feelings and impressions, and directing those feelings and harnessing those impressions in a way that serves his interests. Where the lawyer argues, the ad man massages.” I was grateful…
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Please Don’t Make My Funeral About Me
Since my “How to Write a Eulogy for a Bad Mom” article continues to be one of my most-read articles ever, I can only assume that this topic is a hot one. It is also, I would guess, a painful one for many of us who are not buying Mother’s Day cards this year because we are missing our moms (both “good” and “bad” moms and aren’t all moms both? just in different ways? I know I am!). I actually had the most realistic dream about my mother recently. It was so sweet. We were just talking like normal, like we used to do pretty much every day. And then I…
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If ministry can be accomplished alone it lacks biblical value; if it is not fun it misses biblical perspective.
Some of Dave’s best writing to date over at our Redeeming Church Conflicts blog: How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 7): Sharing Ministry … With Friends This is dedicated to my new friends. Especially my new pastor friends. You know who you are. I couldn’t help but think of you as I read these words from (my spiritual father and dear friend), Dave Edling: “Pastor Bob’s experience was never a lack of those seeking to share neither ministry with him or a lack of friends because he had the vision to have fun with his many friends as they undertook something bigger than any one of them could accomplish alone. Vision…
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It was like being in Hell with instructions!
Cap’n Dave has written a great post over at our Redeeming Church Conflicts blog. I encourage you to check it out: It Was Like Being in Hell with Instructions!
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LiveBlog of the PCA Women’s Leadership Conference General Session #5: Melanie Cogdill (A Tale of Two Women), Sarah Ivill (Thinking Biblically and Living Covenantally), and Stephen Estock (Why I Love Women’s Ministry)
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LiveBlog of the PCA Women’s Leadership Conference General Session #4: Tara Barthel & Ellen Dykas – Real Friendship for Women Leaders: Loving Each Other Enough to Speak Truth
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LiveBlog of the PCA Women’s Leadership Conference General Session #3: Ellen Dykas – Taking God’s Truth to a Hurting and Struggling World
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LiveBlog of the PCA Women’s Leadership Conference General Session #2: Nancy Guthrie – Have a Clear Aim