Posted in some thoughts on Jul 10th, 2004
Youth Ministry without vision is like whitewater rafting with all of the whitewater and none of the raft: zero fun and, if not deadly, extremely painful. So should the new name be “The Epicenter” (“Enter the EPIC”), or The Embassy? I like the Embassy–at least the mindset of it: we’re ambassadors extending the interests of [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jul 9th, 2004
Driving back from Portsmouth I thought about the constant pressure I feel to read more Edwards, Brainard, Owen, Spurgeon, etc. I suddenly felt tired of reading about other men’s relationships with God; other men’s revelation of Scripture. I am tired of it. I want my own. My own relationship, my own revelation. And now, remembering [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jul 8th, 2004
Man playing God: BBC NEWS | Health | Europe rejects foetal rights bid. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jul 6th, 2004
something I wrote today during a brief teaching on church growth: “There is a difference between catering the method to target numbers and targeting the good and managing the numbers.” Somthing else I came across: “It is better to lose people for the sake of keeping the truth than to lose the truth for the [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jul 6th, 2004
The rafting trip with NEOC went very well–I’m really sore. ONELIFE also went pretty well on Friday; I spoke about The Day of Independence, that our freedom from tyranny has slid insidiously into freedom from moral restraint and accountability. After this, one of the people there passed me a copy of Francis Schaeffer’s A Christian [...]
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