Piper on Marriage (Eph. 5:28-29) December 24, 2008
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Spoken Word December 17, 2008
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Ryan Ferguson dramatically recites Hebrews 9-10 from memory at the WorshipGod06 conference.
I love spoken word. My soul is greatly encouraged listening to people reciting scripture. I’m in the process of memorizing Galatians. Every semester at ASU, one large group meeting is a coffee house (basically an open mic night). My hope is that I will be able to do some spoken word at the one at the end of the coming semester. Rockbridge also has an open mic night one of the days of the retreat. I would love to be able to bless the people there by going through Galatians.
Christmas Giveaway December 16, 2008
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Trevin over at Kingdom People is giving away 10 of his favorite books plus an ESV study bible. That’s around a $260 value. He is going to randomly draw a winner on Dec. 25. So you have from now till then to register at his site.
If your interested in entering into the mix to win it go check out his site
Evangelism & Theology December 9, 2008
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“Evangelism and theology for the most part go separate ways, and the result is great loss for both. When theology is not held on course by the demands of evangelistic communication, it grows abstract and speculative, wayward in method, theoretical in interest and irresponsible in stance. When evangelism is not fertilized, fed and controlled by theology, it becomes a stylized performance seeking its effect through manipulative skills rather than the power of vision and the force of truth. Both theology and evangelism are then, in one important sense, unreal, false to their own God-given nature; for all true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.”
J.I. Packer
End of the Semester December 5, 2008
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The semester is coming to a close at Lees-McRae and Appalachian State University. As I reflect on this semester I am amazed at all that has happened.
- Leadership retreat
- Chapter retreat – topic for weekend Abiding in Christ
- Vision team retreat
- Evangelism conference
- Black Student Conference
- Weekly discipleship appointment going through Philemon
- Monday night Bible study I led going through John
- Starting a small group bible study at Lees-McRae
- Two students coming to a relationship with God
- The many events we had throughout the semester (trail clean up, serving at the hospitality house, dodge ball tournaments, game night, football games)
- Helping to lay a foundation for the worship team – helping them process/reflect on how things have gone and are going, offering suggestions
- The Large Group talks I gave.
- The random but awesome conversation I’ve had with students.
It’s been a great semester and I have learned a lot about the campus and college ministry.
Prayer of Confession and Repentance December 1, 2008
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Holy Lord, we have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Your mind in your Word, of neglect to seek You in our daily life. Our transgressions and short-comings present us with a list of accusations, but I bless You that they will not stand against me, for all has been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue our corruptions Lord, and grant us grace to live above them. Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings of the mind bring our spirit into subjection.
I thank You that many of our prayers have been refused. We have asked wrongly and do not have, we have prayed from lusts and been rejected, we have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with your patient work Lord, answering ‘no’ to our wrongful prayers, and fitting us to accept it. Purge us from every false desire, every base or vulgar aspiration, everything contrary to Your rule. We thank you God for Your wisdom and Your love, for all the acts of discipline to which we are subject, for sometimes putting us into the furnace to refine the gold and remove the waste.
No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin. If You would give me choice to live in pleasure and keep my sins, or to have them burnt away with trial, give me sanctified affliction. This is only through you Lord. Deliver us from every evil habit, every accumulation of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Your grace in us, everything that prevents us taking delight in You. Then we shall bless You, God of jeshurun [poetic name of Israel], for causing us to be upright. (The Valley of Vision, edited by Arthur Bennett)
