Urban Reformation

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What do I mean by having no affect? I mean in two ways, by the hearing the preaching of the word or secondly, the reading of the word in your own private time with God. I am also meaning this specifically in two areas, the first would be sanctification, and the second would be [...]

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How did you come to know that you’re saved?    Are you saved?  I remember as a boy I committed my life to Christ many many times at “Church Camp.”  There was no repentance for how I was living, nor any change in my heart or in my life.  I will soon be introducing the [...]

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Last evening about 1:30 in the morning, I was awakened suddenly by my wife saying, “There’s a fire!” I think she had to shake me a couple of times because of my own unbelief, and grogginess.
I soon rose to turn the lights on in my daughters’ room and I saw my youngest daughter sleeping [...]

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I was tooling around on the web lately and found a message on Building a Relational Community from Sovereign Grace Ministries. This was a good message to hear, they also do a very helpful Q.A. session at the end of the message.
So what does this have to do with, “Shepherds ought to have [...]

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There was a time in my teenage years, in which I had become so disconnected with my parents in my own rebellion toward them, that I spoke little to them. The “culture” within my family was a bit focused on “self” if you could imagine, to the point where often if we were home [...]

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I came to an understanding of the Doctrines of Grace not too very long ago and I must say contrary to popular belief, it has given me an overwhelming desire for “evangelism” both personal evangelism and a hope to see it fulfilled with a greater degree of passion in our church. [...]

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I have seen this video surfacing all over the place, and different youth groups have redone this skit. I can appreciate what I think the sentiments are to some degree, the point I believe is supposed to be that God created man, but in the skit, it seems as if God hands Eve the [...]

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I finished the book over the weekend. I don’t believe I’ve read a book so easy to read with so many compact nuggets of truth. This was truly an easy and enjoyable read, but goes without saying don’t consider reading a book on humility if you don’t care to be humbled. [...]

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Somehow the farce of global warming came to mind this morning. I say a farce, because we as Christians should know the Word well enough to refute such man-made things. Man is fickle. One day butter is good for you, the next it’s worse than radon. We can’t make up our [...]

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