March 2012
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“Jesus is the floor. Most people think when they crash that they hit rock bottom...”
February 2012
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“This is where we come face to face with a dangerous reality. We do have to give...”
– David Platt
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“When it comes to ‘spirituality,’ we are all naturally averse to such...”
– Full post here
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“Tired of fighting your emotions? We’re not meant to. Instead fight for...”
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Fight For Your Joy: Why We Don’t Talk God When God... →
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It’s silly to think that God changes based on our moods, views, and attitudes: but we fall into this pit trap like clockwork. God can feel far away, and that’s a legitimate feeling, but He never takes vacations. His zip code don’t change. It’s that we naturally drift from the shore by the slow-boiling gravity of complacency, and our minds unchecked wander into...
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“‘Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your...”
– C.S. Lewis
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Anonymous asked: Do you still struggle with porn?
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timfrazer asked: Hey man, I was really curious about your testimony. Just kind of what brought you from unbelief to belief(besides the grace of God). Like, what happened? I bet God did something pretty freaking cool.
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God Is In Your Face: Sermon Series Through The... →
The seven part series on the Book of Genesis is now completely posted on the podcast!
God Is In Your Face: The Metanarrative Story of God and His creation Man. An expository series through the Book of Genesis. Featuring God, Adam and Eve, Noah, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, and Jesus.
Continue Reading for List of Sermon Podcasts
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Obeying The Grace of God: He Commands You To Have... →
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If you’re repenting from sin, that’s all you’re doing: running from it.
Suddenly you have a lot of idle free time and you’re not sure what to do.
How about run back to that sin?
Because that’s what most people do. They don’t know what else to do.
I suppose we could create a Christian subculture ghetto marginalized to the fringes of the mainstream, complete with...
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skyebox asked: Do you have any summer conferences / leadership training programs for college students that you'd recommend? I missed the deadline for JAMA and the 6-month programs at YWAM are a bit too long. Thanks!
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“ 18 - I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the...”
– The Romans 8 Trifecta
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Shameless Self-Promotion For The Podcast →
Hello Planet Tumblr!
If the podcast has been a blessing to you, then I’d like to once again humbly and shamelessly ask if you could write a review or drop some star ratings on iTunes. It’ll hardly take a few minutes!
(Once you View In iTunes, you can review or rate it from there!)
Thank you to those who have written a review or given Five Star Ratings.
Love y’all, Tumblr...
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Five Incredible Sermons →
Five incredible sermons worth your time.
Francis Chan, John Piper, Louie Giglio, Eugene Cho, and Tim Elmore.
All links here.
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“There’s a huge difference between trauma and drama. One you must walk through,...”
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A Damaged "Reputation" At School
Anonymous asked:
Hey… I have this emotional problem happening to me right now. I would really like you to pray for me. I’m having some friendship problems at school right now. Apparently, my reputation at school is kinda bad … last year I had cheated on a quiz. People at my school judge me so much, I can’t even breathe. People make up stories like “She purposely talks with an accent...
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A Boyfriend Is Not The Solution, And Not The... →
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Sometimes I sit through these counseling sessions where the girl goes on and on about her idiot moron unprincipled boyfriend: he doesn’t listen, he clips his nails in bed, he showers every three days, he forgets to call, how do I get him to hear me, I try so hard to express my feelings and it’s like he does not care, and –
I want to say the same thing, you know. I...
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“We must come to a place where we can let God be God. We need to surrender our...”
– Francis Chan, Erasing Hell
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to...
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The Way Everlasting Sermon Podcast →
Hello Planet Tumblr!
If the podcast has been a blessing to you, then I’d please like to shamelessly ask if you could write a review on iTunes or drop some star ratings.
If you’re not sure how, just click the blue button on the left of the page that looks like this:
From there you can write a review or rate by stars!
Thanks again Planet Tumbler. Love y’all.
— JS
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Goodbye "purity", and good riddance.
unkaglen:
Anonymous asked: A little over a year ago, I was raped by a good friend who I thought was a Godly man. Now I’m not sure how to tell a future boyfriend about the loss of my purity, or how it will affect our relationship. How would I go about talking to him? Sexual purity has always been a big deal to me, and I don’t want to disappoint my future husband.
Unka Glen answered: That...
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Self-Dissociation: How A Christian Can Condemn The... →
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We’re not surprised anymore when a famous preacher who blasts homosexuality gets caught in a homosexual affair doing meth. A governor who pursues ethics in Wall Street is busted for carousing with prostitutes. An actor turned governor turned actor hides a secret child outside his marriage for ten years, fully realizing his role as an actor. We’ve learned that Nazi...
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Explicit Gospel Tour -- Matt Chandler →
Matt Chandler is touring in six states for his new book, The Explicit Gospel.
He will also be touring with Shane and Shane.
I’ll definitely be catching him in Florida.
** I got tickets!
From The Resurgence:
Inspired by the needs of both the overchurched and the unchurched, and bolstered by the common neglect of the explicit gospel within Christianity, Matt Chandler has written this punchy...
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For Sale or For Lent
I’ve decided this Lent to give up online shopping for forty days.
Since I have Amazon Prime, I constantly make random impulse buys: pens, notepads, headphones, guitar accessories, and as many as a dozen books at a time. I get at least one shipment per week.
Since I also decided to cut my life in half, this will be helpful.
Here’s to no more impulse buying.
What are you...
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“There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his...”
– C.S. Lewis
“We must be open to the possibility that we are wrong, that we have been misled,...”
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I Want To Read My Bible — But How? →
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You cracked open your journal, busted out your favorite pen, and finally opened your Bible.
Five sentences later, you have no idea what you just read.
Confusion, frustration, resignation: But the pastor made it so easy. It was better when he told it.
And the final excuse: At least I tried.
It’s happened to all of us, from rookies to veterans, when we catch the...
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Anonymous asked: Thanks for being clear and straight to the point. I had people tell me that before, but I didn't really understand what they meant bc it was so vague. It was really sobering to hear. I also wanted to ask, do my parents take everything out on me & not my younger sister (by a year) bc subconsciously they think I'll understand and be able to handle it? Doesn't that mean...
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“You intended to harm me,
but God intended it for good
to accomplish what is...”
– Joseph. Genesis 50:20
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“Give Up the Gimmicks, Youth Pastors” →
An article about youth ministry by Brian Cosby at The Gospel Coalition.
Excerpt:
“All too often, youth programs have turned to entertainment-driven models of ministry in order to bring in youth. Success has become the name of the church-growth game. The devastating effects, however, are not only seen in the number of youth leaving the church after high school, but also in a spiritually and...
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Secular Vs. Spiritual: How Do I Glorify God At My... →
A four part series on connecting Christ with your career, and how he owns it. 1) Restorative — 2) Creative — 3) Narrative — 4) Connective
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Is being a pastor or missionary the only “real work” for God?
The church has missed sorely on exhorting believers to faithful living in their careers, instead lifting “ministry” as a first class calling and degrading a full-time job as...
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Anonymous asked: How do you make your own decisions without disrespecting/dishonoring your parents? I've just moved back home and will be in graduate school. My parents keep trying to make all of my decisions. I feel so overwhelmed by what they want. I must have the wrong heart/attitude when I talk to them as well because my dad flipped out and told me I was being annoying. They aren't always right, but...
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“So we’re not giving up.
How could we!
Even though on the outside
it...”
– 2 Corinthians 4:16, The Message Version
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“An Open Letter To Praise Bands” →
An article by James Smith well worth reading for both praise bands and churchgoers.
Excerpt:
Without us realizing it, the dominant practices of performance train us to relate to music (and musicians) in a certain way: as something for our pleasure, as entertainment, as a largely passive experience.
In a concert, we come to expect that weird sort of sensory deprivation that happens...
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Leaving Church?
With all the surveys and research and anecdotes about people leaving the church, I wonder if something else is happening.
I wonder if stronger churches are thinning out the nominal, non-committed, window-shopping church-hoppers. Maybe visitors are facing a rebirth of solid doctrine and unashamed gospel preaching and finally hearing what the Bible is really about.
The name Christian could be...
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“God did not die for man because of some value He perceived in him. The value of...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Examine yourself: Does it lie within your power right now to weep over the...”
– John Piper
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“Does the church have the courage to become relevant by becoming biblical?”
– David Wells
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“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the...”
– Karl Barth
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“Do nothing
out of selfish ambition
or vain conceit,
but in humility consider...”
– Philippians 2:3-5
“The hijacking of the concept of morality began, of course, when we reduced...”
– Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What (via solideogloriaa)
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“He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
He counts the number of...”
– Psalm 147:3-5
davidmhur asked: Awesome blog. God Bless.
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