Oct 22
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To my friends who are considering voting for Barack Obama

As you are my friends you know that it is not in my personality to desire to offend and yet I am compelled to risk offense (even of friends) rather than remain silent at the continued death of well over one million unborn children per year.
Please understand that a vote for almost any democrat candidate [...]

Author: Jeremiah
Aug 27
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Plumb the Depths of the Gospel with Youth

I have worked with youth for about nine years and one comment that I have often noticed is that we should be careful not to go too deep with the kids or it will just go over their heads and they will lose interest.
It seems that by saying that we don’t want to go too [...]

Author: Jeremiah
Jul 08
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What Do You Do All Day, Pastor?

I’ve been asked the question, “What is it that a pastor does all day?” enough times that it has led me to ask myself what exactly I am doing.
Well, I read a lot. And it seems that most of my reading just leads to more questions and thus more books. But is reading [...]

Author: Jeremiah
May 14
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The Happiness of Christ in His Bride

The second half of Ephesians 5 gives direct instructions to husbands ands wives as to their respective responsibilities to each other. It also offers the setting and purpose of these responsibilities as the great living metaphor of the relationship between Christ and the church. And yet this passage while giving instructions to husbands [...]

Author: Jeremiah
May 13
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In the Eyes of the Dying

Yesterday I was reading a review of The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne at challies.com. I have not yet read the book, but after reading the review one quote from the book struck me given an experience that I had just hours after reading the reivew.
I could see God in their eyes. … I [...]

Author: Jeremiah
Apr 26
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The Power of the Cross

Late on Wednesday night, April 16, I called a friend from my church to simply share with him that I was overwhelmed. I had just spent the evening at the Together for the Gospel Conference in Louisville, KY, glorying in the atonement; that “Christ became sin for us; Took the blame, bore the wrath” [...]

Author: Jeremiah