Tag: Jesus
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John Ortberg’s “Who Is This Man?”
John Ortberg’s [amazon_link id=”0310275946″ target=”_blank” ]Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus[/amazon_link] is a helpful read. The book carries reminders of both church history and historical fiction in style. Ortberg takes musings on the life of Christ and makes them page turning. Other books have looked at the historical impact Jesus, made…
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Have I Committed the Unforgivable Sin?
This series on NoSuperHeroes deals with the Top Questions I receive in my Grace Seminars. Come back each day to see how we can answer our questions without changing the message of Grace! Top Question: Have I Committed the Unforgivable Sin, “Blaspheming the Holy Spirit”? Have you ever found yourself fearing that you or someone you…
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Go South To Get North
I used to see bumper stickers reading “God is my Co-Pilot”. One of my youth staff had this on their beater of a car. Besides the fact it is cheesy Christian stuff, there is truth in this. Genesis shows us one of these incidents. Jacob wanted to fulfill God’s plan for him in the land…
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Eat This Book
I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book recently. His analogy of us reading the Word of God was striking. I want to share it with you. “Years ago I owned a dog who had fondness for large bones…He gnawed on the bone, turned it over and around, licked it, worried it. Sometimes we could hear…
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Can We Teach the Grace of God to our Children?
A few months ago, I wrote a post on Christian SuperMom called Reflecting a Gracious God to our Children. In it, I wondered what tools we as parents could use to model the grace of God to our kids. I would like to follow this post up with a report and some new thoughts. I modeled…