disciple in the making
From the monthly archives:
This post is part of a series on a commentary I am reading on the book of James. For a brief introduction, please read the first post in the series.
It would seem the academic type (e.g. scholars, theologians) aren’t super impressed with the book of James. Martin Luther called it the “epistle of straw.” Others [...]
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This past week I decided to “bust up” a commentary on the book of James. Don’t ask me what “to bust up” means. Ask Mike Doughty. He’s the one who wrote “Busting Up A Starbucks.”
But anyway.
For however many posts it’ll take, I’m going to synthesize what I read into a series of digestible blog posts.
Both [...]
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There are plenty of stories in the Bible about people being patient. There’s no shortage of sermon’s illustrating the need to keep running the race and being faithful to the call of God. You have Noah, Samuel, Joseph, David, etc.
The “take home message” of all those stories is . . .
Matthew 25:21 (NIV)
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Regardless if you get your recommended daily amount of sleep, you can still wake up refreshed, but feel tired and overwhelmed.
2 Kings 6:15-17 (NIV)
15 When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh, my lord, what [...]
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