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Stop Moving Around Until God Sends You Somewhere

Chris —  May 6, 2013

Ascension Day is just this Thursday. It’s where we remember Jesus’s “Last Will and Testament” to his Apostles.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8

These days, we Americans can’t seem to commit to anything. Gone are the days of “company men”, who work at the same job for years. Other things seem to be going that way, like having a “home town”. We’re now living in a culture that has a created a new relationship: the “Starter Marriage.’ We see this in churches. People float from church to church.

They might leave because of a conflict, a move, or because the personality of the church changed. We aren’t leaving because we want to go. We leave because we want a sense of purpose. We are leaving because we want to feel like we were sent out for a reason.

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Wednesday Spotlight

Ash Wednesday Spotlight

Chris —  February 13, 2013

Today launches Lent, with the traditional holiday of Ash Wednesday. Catholics and high church protestants gather to be reminded that “for dust you are and to dust you will return,”by having ashes imposed on their foreheads.  For those of us who are not of a liturgical this is a confusing, odd and even overly religious tradition of man that distracts from the day-in, day-out following of Jesus.  Mark Roberts tells his story of coming to understand the holiday over at Patheos:

To me, it was some Catholic holy day that I, as an evangelical Protestant, didn’t have to worry about, thanks be to God. In my view, all of “that religious stuff” detracted from what really mattered, which was having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In my early evangelical years it never dawned on me that some of “the religious stuff” might actually enrich my faith in Christ.

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Advent 2011

Chris —  November 29, 2011

This past Sunday was the first of Advent.  As I have in past years, I’m planning on continuing a tradition of blogging through the season.  To give you some background, here’s a description I wrote a few years back:

An Guide to Advent For Us Ahistorical Evangelical Types

Advent is about waiting.  Waiting isn’t fun.  But it’s important.  Enjoy.

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Failing at Lent

Chris —  April 26, 2011

It’s Resurrection Season, so this will be my last post about Lent for about a year.  However, I would be remiss to not recount two things I learned from the season.

1.  We give things up for Lent because it leads us to Easter.  Rather than indulging in what me missed during our fast, we seek to find this small part of our life resurrected.  We give up what controls us through Lent so we can be free of it come Easter.

2.  I failed at Lent, in a deep fundamental way.  Posting on this site, Facebook and elsewhere what I had given up is a direct contradiction of Christ’s words on fasting.  This cheapened my fast and misled others.  My apologies.

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An Easter Song

Chris —  April 24, 2011

This song is Easter.

 

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