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Holy Spirit

Ben’s First Book

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Ben wrote a collection of 11 meditations on the Fruit of the Spirit for the Ellerslie Alumni Newsletter! Now it is compiled into Ben’s first (of many) book!! His opus magnum is still in the works. This would be a wonderful way to get to know what I’m most passionate about: experiential Christianity that is grounded firmly upon the truth of the Word of God. If we are truly born of God, He will produce His nature within us. It would be helpful to our souls to know what His nature looks like, biblically. If you (or someone you know) are thirsty for a greater likeness to Christ in your daily life, this would be a great augment to your life and pursuit of Christ. Buy two and give one to a friend!

Two-by-Fours, Square Between the Eyes

Two-by-Fours, Square Between the Eyes

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The Church is often in grave danger, though it is almost entirely unaware of it. The danger is that we think that spiritual work and 8531689712_b76c970081_zministry can be carried out primarily by physical means. This is a grievous error, but oh so common. While everything we do has both physical and spiritual consequences, our modernism has connived a way for us to go about doing spiritual work using physical means, trusting that these physical means will bring about a spiritual result.

It goes like this . . . a math teacher can get up in front of class of 14 year olds, explain the quadratic equation, pass out the homework, grade the homework, likely re-explain it in the next class, and by the end of the term (granted that he is a dexterous teacher with a relatively engaged class) he will have passed along the knowledge and understanding of these deep algebraic mysteries; mysteries even angels long to look into. [Read more…] about Two-by-Fours, Square Between the Eyes

God on the Dance Floor

God on the Dance Floor

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I have no business discussing dancing, floors, or even dance floors. I’m an expert in none of those categories. I am not a dancer. BallerinaWhen I try to dance, I end up looking like a contortionist being hit with a taser. When I try to dance I appear to be about as graceful as a pirouette-ing stick figure. When I try to dance . . .  get the point? However, in a recent study on 1 Peter, I was intrigued by a greek word that has to do with, of all things, dancing. We will get to the dancing in a moment, but first . . .  [Read more…] about God on the Dance Floor

The Threshing Floor

The Threshing Floor

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It is becoming more apparent to me that the Enemy’s battle-formation of postmodernism is a frontal assault on the Holy Spirit. Postmodernism is a mushy soup of follow your heart, go with the flow, do what feels right, assimilate contradictory ideas into one incoherent worldview, anything goes, and above all tolerate everyone and everything and any expression of individuality. The rule of the day is tolerance. The hypocrisy of such an ideal falls apart when someone (anyone) is in any way, shape or form intolerant. Because tolerance has to tolerate intolerance, and thereby lets the cat out of the bag: there has to be some kind of objective standard whereby we determine what is right, good, and worthy of acceptance and what is wrong, bad and entirely unacceptable. [Read more…] about The Threshing Floor

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