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• Books, Misc, Study

  What Does a Pastor Do All Day, Anyway?

  04.07.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you’ve ever asked the question “What does my pastor do all day?”, this is what he’s doing (or should be). If you’re a Christian, and not a pastor, this may may help you to pray for, encourage, and have healthy expectations for your pastors.
  If you are a pastor and you’ve ever […]

• Books, Family, Misc, Personal, Study

  Wisdom of Gandalf

  03.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “… it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they […]

• Books, Misc, Personal, Study

  Hobbit Wisdom

  03.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he […]

• Books, Misc, Study

  Small Groups

  01.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Little fellowships within each local church that met at people’s homes on Sunday afternoons or in the evening. People shared their personal religious experiences, held informal Bible studies, sang hymns, and prayed about each other’s needs.”
  (quoted from Worship: Reformed according to Scripture, by Hughes Oliphant Old, pg. 104)
  Sound familiar? Interesting that many evangelical churches […]

• Books, Misc, Study, Theology

  Spurgeon on “New” Theology

  10.28.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “I have been charged with being a mere echo of the Puritans, but I had rather be the echo of truth, than the voice of falsehood.”
  “Rest assured that there is nothing new in theology except that which is false; and that the facts of theology are today what they were eighteen hundred years ago.”