They’re Big in Africa: Evangelical Bigwigs hit Rezolution 2013
Last week, I while I was hanging out with CJ Mahaney, Mark Dever, and Kevin DeYoung… OK, so I confess I didn’t know where that sentence was heading, just that I wanted to use it sometime this week. For all my disdain of Evangelical hagiolatry [...]
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God Wants Us Clean
This is the third installment of the series, the Inevitable Messiness of Being Human. Yesterday we asked “Why would God make us messy, broken, and disgusting, and then consider us unclean and unacceptable?” First, let me establish that in Leviticus being “unclean” in not always [...]
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God Made Us Messy
This is Part Two of “The Inevitable Messiness of Being Human” series on Leviticus 15, the chapter about the uncouth escape of certain bodily fluids, which we blush to read in public. In Part One I merely established that since all Scripture is breathed out [...]
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The Inevitable Messiness of Being Human, Pt 1
On Sunday my commitment to expository preaching was tested. I preached on the chapter every seminoid dreads from the day they graduate, namely Leviticus 15 on the emission and discharge of various bodily fluids. The challenges of preaching this sticky wicket are manifold. First, the [...]
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Practical Preparations for the Pre-church Tornado of Chaos
Beep, beep, beep- snooze- beep, beep, beep- click. Yawn. And then it begins. The Sunday pre-church tornado of chaos… Wake kids, dress kids, feed kids, clean up kids’ mess on floor, clean up kids mess on kids, dress kids again, shower, choose tie, convince wife that tie does match [...]
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Prepare or Perish – Church: Sermon Listening
Sunday. For the preacher, it comes every week, right on time, relentlessly. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had to perform four weddings and a funeral, or if the Greek in Luke took some arm wrestling to understand, or if you were in a fender-bender and [...]
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The Preacher’s Payday – Available on Amazon!
5Finally The Preacher’s Payday has arrived. Well, not the actual Day, just the book about it. Giddy with delight, and basking in God’s graciousness to me, I got to grasp in my hand a copy of my first (Lord willing) published book. In seminary I [...]
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What Sermon Prep Really Looks Like – by Kevin de Young
Yesterday I introduced you to one of my favorite young writers. (Is it ok to call someone my age young?) Anyway, here is some behind-the-scenes insight from his pen into what sermon prep can be like… What Sermon Prep Really Looks Like: Monday – I’m [...]
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