Archive for the ‘Loving People’ Category
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Actually, U2 got it wrong. It was late afternoon when Martin Luther King, JR was gunned down outside of a Memphis motel, victim to the hatred and racism he had dedicated his life to stop.
It was 1968, the year I was born. He was 39, my age now.
Depending on your ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I've been preaching through the gospel of Matthew on Sunday morning. I was blazing a pretty good clip of about a chapter a week until I got to the Sermon on the Mount.
At that point we slowed to a screeching halt.
Over the last 6 weeks we have covered ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Being The Agape of God, Part 2
John returns in 2 John to tell us of the importance of love. It is the single defining part of His understanding of obedience, faith and truth.
2 John 4—6
John makes it impossible to not talk about love. For him our faith is ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
I never intended to be on the front lines of evangelicals and the environmental movement. When the ECI was first released back in February of 2006 there were 86 Christian signatories to the document.
I was the 87th.
I sent an email to the coordinators of the document expecting ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
I dug up this old photograph Look at all that hair we had.
It's bittersweet to hear you laugh Your phone is ringing I don't wanna ask
If you go now, I'll understand If you stay, hey, I've got a plan
We're gonna make a memory You wanna steal a piece of time
You ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Scripture is clear about one thing: there are two aspects to spirituality, the horizontal and the vertical. And those two aspects are interwoven with each other.
Simply put, you can not have a relationship with God (the vertical) if you don't have a relationship with His children (the horizontal). ...
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
If you noticed I added a plug-in that shows what I am listening to on last.fm. If you use last.fm, add me as a friend. My user name is sfree96.
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I am out of the office for the most part of the day. I thought I would re-run ...
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
My blogging buddy Phil Wilson has already written a great post about this sign, so I won't repeat what he has already said.
However, I want to tip my hat to several churches in Australia who are tapping into the subversive and life-transforming power of the gospel.
In a world that is ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
I began work at my current congregation a little over 2 years ago. When I came the church was in a transitional period having undergone a split about 6 months previous. Three reasons spurred my decision to accept what many would believe to be an unattractive position:
1. It ...
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
This begins my new sermon series titled "The Scarlet Thread, Part 2: Who Jesus Calls Us To Be." Today's text is from Matthew 5:48, "Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."
I got worked up a little.
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