January 2012
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2012 So Far...
So here we are 23 days into 2012.
I have been in South Carolina every day this year so far. This weekend I will be returning to OKC to join my team in our office on McAuley Blvd.
I have immensely enjoyed seeing old friends, family, and moments around the dinner table. Grabbing coffee with old friends has been a constant. Also, just going back to some of my favorite places.
So far I have been...
December 2011
9 posts
“Do not slice pieces out of your manhood and then hope to fill up the vacancies...”
– Charles Spurgeon
When We Fail
(a look at Sharing Christ this Christmas)
And when we fail — not if, but when — the place to return is Calvary’s tree. Our solace in failing to adequately share the gospel is the very gospel we seek to share. It is good to ache over our failures to love our families in gospel word and deed. But let’s not miss that as we reflect on our failures, we have all the more reason to marvel at God’s love...
Book List of 2011
I love to read and think that knowledge is crucial to shaping conversations and growth. I get asked from time to time what I am reading and especially how it relates to Christendom.
The internet is a friend of information. Books are friends of thought. I love and use the internet daily, but also love to dive in a good book, and not on an iPad, but you know like a physical book, with real...
Lazar
The OKC Thunder just brought on a guy from Minnesota. His job in practice is to guard Kevin Durant. He told Kevin:
“I told him, ‘I’ll be going up against you all the time. I’m going to push you. I’m going to fight you. I’m going to try to make you mad,”’ explained Lazar Hayward, a 6-foot-6, 225-pound second-year player out of Marquette. “But at the end of the...
“Many times leaders in the public sphere are criticized for some mistake or...”
– Productivity Fail - Creative Leadership
A Slow Process
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient. Steve Jobs
“Process makes you more efficient.” Maybe that is what is going on in my life. Maybe I am growing, stretching, hurting, and learning...
An Incomplete List of Small Pleasures
Referring to friends and family by the first letter of their first name.
Sound of passing traffic without horns or sirens. Just whooshes.
Doing simple things really well.
Listening to kids stories.
Listening to old people tell “old tales”
Mumford and Sons and Civil Wars music.
Bridges—rivers, noses, ships, songs.
Hearing other people tell success stories.
Really long hot...
November 2011
4 posts
Secondhand Faith!
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay mein the dust of death.” (Ps. 22:14-15)
To figure out what I mean by secondhand faith we must first look at secondhand smoke:
What is it?
When non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke...
Confession: I hate being still.
“If I am not busy, I make myself busy.” With a transition to a new job (in a foreign place) and mainly just my work comrades to keep me busy I often have lots of down time. I am getting back into the gym routine and training for another triathlon. I work hard, really hard (*I would like to think I always have worked hard), try to serve the body of Christ well and stay healthy and work...
Wait, I say, Wait.
One of the phrases that you read a lot in the Psalms is “wait on the Lord.” David spent a good portion of his life waiting for the Lord to fulfill some promises that the Lord had made to him very early in life. There were periods of extended periods of waiting.
Psalms 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Between the promise God...
Market Research turned into a Gospel Moment
I was recently watching a Promo video for Ligonier Ministries Connect program… and RC starts out the video says…
It’s Jesus performance that is transferred to my account when I receive Him by faith. That is why Paul labors the point that our justification is given to us freely as a gift of the Father. That God calls me just before He makes me just.
Its transactional, God...
October 2011
1 post
5 Things I have learned in a month at Church Plant...
1) If you don’t write it down, it didn’t happen. Documentation of happenings makes you remember to follow up and following up leads to success. 2) Decisions about policy and pricing are defined by your mission and vision but must remain balanced with profitability.Last Friday the executive leadership team of Church Plant Media rolled up their sleeves and decided to drop the price of...
September 2011
5 posts
“Precious Jesus, draw us, and we will run after Thee.”
– Charles Spurgeon
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The Fellowship of the Unashamed.
Oh that this would be true in my life.
I am a part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed. The die has been cast. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus. Therefore, I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still. My past is redeemed, my present is empowered and my future is secure. I’m done with low living, sight waking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams,...
August 2011
2 posts
Gospel Driven sanctification
The first thing to remember is that we must never separate the benefits (regeneration, justification, sanctification) from the Benefactor (Jesus Christ). The Christians who are most focused on their own spirituality may give the impression of being the most spiritual but from the New Testament’s point of view, those who have almost forgotten about their own spirituality because their focus is so...
June 2011
3 posts
“There is not one room in His house the key of which He will withhold from His...”
– Spurgeon, This Morning’s Meditation, “And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them.”—John 17:22
May 2011
1 post
nathanangelo:
‘Make Up Your Mind’ (acoustic/live...
April 2011
2 posts
“No matter what you do, even if you sell all of your possessions and move to the...”
– Radical Together, David Platt
March 2011
4 posts
“We all long for [Eden], and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at...”
– The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 110
Adoption.... God chose us →
3All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.5God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted...
Best convo
Me: I'm really excited to see the new movie about the guy who gets the pill to use all his brain.
Austin: how much you use now?
Me: 20%
Austin: really only 20%?
Me: yeah
Austin: how would you use the other 100%
February 2011
6 posts
January 2011
31 posts
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...”
– Winston Churchill
“…God wants us to find our primary joy in our objectively declared justification,...”
–
“The Discomfort of the Justified Life,” quoted in Justified: Modern Reformation Essays on the Doctrine of Justification, p. 94
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“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things...”
– Marianne Williamson
