Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington recently presented a Biblical Parenting Conference. The media is now available at the Resurgence website. The speaker, Tedd Tripp, is one of my favorite authors and a man that many are familiar with through his books, Shepherding a Child’s Heart and Instructing a Child’s HeartÂ. Please, take the [...]
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For a limited time, you can download Coldplay’s new EP Prospekt’s March for $0.99 on Amazon. I’ve always liked Coldplay’s music, so I’m happy to partake of their new stuff at such a wonderful price! I’ve listened through it once, passively. So far, so good. I’ll probably listen more intently before the week is out. [...]
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At the Ephesus Students website, I post a weekly article called Out of the Depths. My goal in writing is to challenge and encourage Christians to consider various aspects of life in light of the Scriptures. The latest article is about making wise decisions in our media choices — I focused primarily on television, movies, [...]
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Tonight Felicia and I joined our close friends to attend the Compline service at Christ Church in downtown Savannah. Christ church was founded in 1733 and two of its most famous rectors were John Wesley (1736-1737) and George Whitefield (1738-1740). Christ Church has also been in the national news recently as they have made their [...]
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I am very happy to announce the completion of the new Ephesus Students website. I have been working with Tim Challies to create a practical, useful, and professional looking website that can be an effective ministry tool for Ephesus Student Ministry. We are producing a lot of content, and are adding to it daily. Please [...]
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Margaret Talbort of The New Yorker has written an interesting article entitled Red Sex, Blue Sex: Why Do So Many Evangelical Teenagers Become Pregnant? She is fair and, from what I can tell, accurate in the statistics she presents. Teenage sex and pregnancy is an epidemic that continues to spread, and it appears to be [...]
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I had the honor of preaching at Holly Ridge Baptist Church in Blacksburg, South Carolina last Sunday morning. Felicia and I arrived on Friday evening for a Reformation Celebration meal and were warmly welcomed by a great family of believers. On Saturday we spent the morning with our host family whom we now dearly love, [...]
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The most convicting thing I’ve read all week comes from When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man by Edward Welch:
If you have a hard time seeing the fear of other people, consider ways that your private life is different from your public life. Are there [...]
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