New Testament The Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness 28 Jun 2017 "He is faithful when we are not." This popular saying reminds us of the real difficulty we have as sinful people to produce faithfulness. The Biblical story is, of course,…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Understanding the Spirit (Part 3) 27 Jun 201727 Jun 2017 When we talk about the "works of the Spirit" the church often struggles with an imbalance. On the one hand are those who seem to limit the work of the…
Books Best Books of 2017…So Far 26 Jun 2017 I've read about 40 books so far this year. Not all of them were new publications, most were my first time reading some older works. While many focused around some…
Personal 2017 Summer Reading List 24 Jun 2017 Here's a short list of the books I hope to read this summer: 1. When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their…
Uncategorized Next Week 24 Jun 2017 1. A Review of Rediscovering the Holy Spirit by Michael Horton A meaty book on the Spirit's role in Creation, Redemption, and Everyday life. 2. The Gifts of the Spirit:…
Counseling Stewarding Our Emotional Energy 22 Jun 2017 Earlier this year we had a pretty terrible wind storm around the metro. It caused no small amount of damage in some areas. A giant pine tree on our church…
New Testament The Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness 21 Jun 2017 Goodness seems like such a generic term. It’s often used to describe things that weren’t great, but also weren’t terrible. As in: it was good, but I’ve enjoyed better. So,…
Holy Spirit… The Spiritual Gifts: Understanding the Spirit (Part 2) 20 Jun 2017 Dissecting the specific nature of the spiritual gifts today requires us to know something specific about the giver of such gifts. In order to think rightly about the spiritual gifts…
Books A Review of “The Holy Spirit” by Sinclair Ferguson 19 Jun 2017 There has been plenty written on the so-called “shy member of the Trinity.” If Sinclair Ferguson is neither the first nor the last to write about Him, his book might,…
Reading This Week’s Good Reads 17 Jun 2017 Check out this list of interesting articles compiled from around the web: 1. "Biblical Counseling Training in the Near East: An Encouraging Update on a Burgeoning Movement" by Wayne Vanderwier…
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