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One Desire

One Desire

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When I graduated high school, someone, very wisely, rather than giving me “10 Steps to a Successful Life,” or “The Future is Yours Graduate,” they gave me a little, tacky looking book by a guy named A.W. Tozer. The book: The Knowledge of the Holy. It turned my life upside down, and I have yet to recover from topsy-turviness. I have come to grips with the fact that holding to the historic, biblical, heroic Christian truths will make my viewpoints seem cockeyed to this world. Tozer, unlike most in his generation, was unwilling to have a mere mental ascendency to truth; he was concerned with the human being experiencing the majesty and glory of the thrice-holy God. [Read more…] about One Desire

A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

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Limp-wrists are all the rage. Our modern Christian culture, with its skinny-jean clad worship leaders, hawaiian-shirted Pastors, and Great Mountaincigar-smoking small groups has become proficient in the art of ineffectuality. We have bought the bait that tolerance and acceptance is the most important expression of Christian love. We love by accommodating, cow-towing, and placating the culture. I remember hearing about a church that sent out surveys to their community asking: “What sort of church do you want?” Well, what’ll you know, they wanted a church that gets out in time for the game, allows dad to export his fatherly responsibility to a 28 year old youth pastor with a cool haircut, sermons that include clips from a movie about two dumb guys (one dumber than the other), and a great worship band–pyrotechnics and all.  [Read more…] about A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

Pentecost, For Real

Pentecost, For Real

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I hear people often say, “The church just needs to get back to the way things were in the church of Acts.” Energetic Christian leaders ravenhill 01whip their followers into a frenzy over wanting another anointing, another experience, a fresh fire to fall, another revival, and many other trite terms for, “Uh, things ain’t going so hot around here.” [Read more…] about Pentecost, For Real

A Glad Gravitas

A Glad Gravitas

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If Christ be not risen, life is miserable for a Christian. That about sums it up.Garden Sun If Jesus is not alive right now, then of all the people of the earth, Christians are the most to be pitied, and are living a miserable life. The Apostle Paul makes this same argument in 1 Corinthians 15, and how right he is. For the Christian, the resurrection of Jesus ought to be more than a reason to hide candy laden eggs for children. The resurrection is a line of demarcation that separates the grumpy from the glad. The resurrection is a reason to daily rejoice and celebrate like kids at the end of a school year.

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The Government is not God

The Government is not God

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Yep, here I go, wading into the morass that is our modern governmental system. When I was just a newborn, still at the hospital, the nurses commented to my mother how “chattery” I was for a wee-babe. They concluded I was destined to be a politician; my mom, however, declared, “No, he’s going to be a preacher.” It would seem that my mom was more the prophet than the nurses; nevertheless, I have always had the itch to apply Gospel truth to culture in general, including the realm of politics. This generation is deceived, and only forceful, Gospel-centered appeals to our magistrates, presidents and rulers will be useful in the long run.

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