Things I Heard In Church: “Israel Committed Treason Against God”
From my notes on Alex Morrow’s teaching from 1 Samuel Chapter 8, at Life Collective Fellowship, Wednesday, 5/18/2016.
“Israel committed treason against God.” Read More
10 Attributes Of Jesus’ Relationship With His Father (And what we can learn from them)
The passage we’re about to look at is amazing. It’s amazing because it’s a revelation of the most important relationship to ever exist: the relationship between Jesus and his Father. We see here, plainly stated by Jesus himself, ten attributes of the perfect relationship between Father and Son.
We’ll look at those ten attributes of Jesus’ relationship with his Father from John 5:17-37 (I encourage you to read the passage first), then we’ll look at Jesus’ relationship with his disciples, and, finally, we’ll take a look at Jesus’ relationship with you.
10 Attributes of Jesus’ relationship with his Father
Read MoreThings I Heard In Church: “What in the world is going on here?”
Speaking of Jesus’ first miracle, changing the water into wine at the wedding in Cana, Dave Teixeira said: Read More
Imitating Maravich–And Imitating Christ
Pete Maravich
When I was in highschool I read this book about the great basketball player Pete Maravich. He averaged 44.2 points per game in college ball one year. He was great in the NBA too. Some of the moves you see in the NBA today were pioneered by Maravich. He became one of my heroes and I was inspired by his life. I was never much of a basketball player but after I read about Maravich I improved dramatically. I read about how he was a gym rat, so I became a gym rat. I read about how he practiced, so I began to practice that way. I learned to shoot the way he shot. I learned some great basketball moves by imitating Pete Maravich’s basketball moves. The result was Read More
Things I Heard In Church: “How Many Times A Week Should We Be Having Sex?”
The following blog post is taken from my notes on Dave Teixeira’s excellent teaching Sex In The Light.
Covenant Sex vs. Consumer Sex
Prayer and Church (And What An Agnostic, Progressive, Single, Childless Sociologist’s Book Says About Them)
Nicholas H Wolfinger progressive sociologist and coauthor of the book Soul Mates
What An Agnostic, Progressive, Single, Childless Sociologist’s Book Says About Prayer And Church
I just read an article in Christianity Today about what an agnostic, progressive, single, and childless sociologist’s book says about prayer and church. Here’s a summary:
Research on the nation’s two largest minority groups, Latinos and African Americans, confirms that prayer and regular connection with a church community is of great benefit to marriages and families. (Later in the article we learn that this applies to the white demographic too.)
This research comes from the Oxford University Press book titled, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos. The agnostic progressive sociologist is Nicholas H. Wolfinger. To be fair, he coauthored the book with another sociologist, W. Bradford Wilcox, who is married, a catholic, conservative, and has children. When Christianity Today asked Wilcox why he chose to team up with someone holding a different worldview he said, Read More
When It’s Important To Miss Church
The Good Samaritan by David Teniers the younger after Francesco Bassano
Cherokee Bible Church
I was on the Cherokee Bible Church website today. There I read this lady’s story about how Read More
Things I Heard In Church: “Nowhere in God’s word does He say…”
Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” –Jesus Christ, Matthew 22:37-39
These words are written on the wall of our church. The man who spoke last Sunday had the entire congregation read those words aloud, and then he said this:
“Nowhere in God’s word does He say we get to choose our neighbor.”
Brad Harper, co-author of Space at the Table: Conversations between an evangelical theologian and his gay son
Sin, Two Women, My Two Sons (And The Son Of God)
Two Women
I just listened to a podcast by a woman named Gaby Viesca. She was talking about the two women Read More
Things I Heard In Church: “Following Jesus Is Like Drafting The Fastest Guy In The Peloton”
Things I Heard In Church:
“Following Jesus is like drafting the fastest guy in the peloton. The closer you are to the one in front of you, the greater the benefit.” –Ben Herr
From Ben Herr‘s excellent presentation: Fishers of Men, heard at Cedar Mill Bible Church
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Things You Should Know About The Author Of This Blog: On A Scale Of 1-10…
I recently had this conversation with my son Nate.
Nate: “Dad, on a scale of one to ten, how important do you feel it is, for you to be right?”
Me: “Is there an eleven?”
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Posted on May 11, 2016 by Kurt Bennett
Bible Commentary, Things You Should Know About The Author Of This Blog
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