Worth Considering
Issue number eight of Mere Orthodoxy arrived in the mail this week and I was greeted with some wisdom from T.S. Elliot.
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What is Your First Thought of God as Your Father?
Seeing The Father As Full of Love For Us
I recently picked up a book I have read before but is worth reading again and again. Owen should be read slowly, thoughtfully, and repeatedly for there is so much good fruit to glean from his writings. [Read More] -
Pulling Up My Anxiety By the Roots
How the obsession for control is the fertilizer of our anxious cares
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Reading the Psalms Theologically
Matthew Emerson has written a really helpful article on reading the Psalms theologically. He makes the point that it is pretty easy to love particular psalms (like Psalm 23 or Psalm 1), but the better question is how can we grow in our love for the Psalter as a whole?... [Read More] -
6 Reasons a Church Plant Will Fail
Lessons Learned Along The Way
I’m 0–2 in church planting. That’s right, of the two church plants I have helped start, I have also been the last guy standing, turning out the lights, and locking the door one final time. Now granted, the second of these church plants actually became a full-fledged church, the kind... [Read More] -
Take Up And Read!
Lessons learned in another year of reading
A few years back, I took up the habit of writing down the books I read throughout the year. I know there are services out there intended to do this, but I always found them to be more cumbersome than helpful. In part, I wanted to measure my reading habits... [Read More]