November 18, 2009
by Erick
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On Sunday at Kaleo, as we looked at Jesus’ teaching on persevering in prayer, and I mentioned my use of prayer cards. I started using them this year after reading about them in Paul Miller’s excellent book A Praying Life (BTW: get and read this book!). John asked me to post this here to share it with the rest of the church as well. I became convinced that I needed some sort of lists if I was …
Aside for being Halloween, October 31st is also the anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On that day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 issues he had with the Catholic Church thus sparking the reformation. So, here’s a little Reformation Day Polka. If you want to enjoy the story in a fuller form check out the very accurate movie Luther, or the book, The Reformation: How a Monk with …
I want to encourage you to use Facebook missionally. I have recently been surprised by the affect of having unsaved family and friends as “friends” on Facebook. It’s cool how they are able to see on a daily basis how important Jesus and the Gospel are to me. Consider how your unsaved friends and family are able to “spy” on you. I find that I am able to put things on my statuses and notes …
Question: What’s the difference between pride & self-esteem? Answer: Self-esteem is basically our culture’s word for what the Bible calls pride. It is commonly seen as a good thing in our culture to think highly yourself – to have high self-esteem. The Bible on the other hand advocates having a Gospel view of ourselves. As Tim Keller has put it: “The Gospel shows us that we are more sinful and flawed than we would ever …
June 13, 2009
by Erick
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Question: If leprosy is contagious, then how was Namaan around people? Answer: Leprosy is contagious and the laws in Israel strictly regulated lepers so that they were kept away from non-lepers. Naaman was a Syrian though, so it may be that they did not have the same kind of strict rules about leprosy. Also, it says in I Kings 5:1 that Naaman had great favor with the king of Syria because he was a successful …