For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. —2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV Whenever I hear some smug sourpuss exclaim, “The word love isn’t mentioned [...]
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Posted in Best of Cerulean Sanctum • Boldness • Christianity in North America • Christianity Outside North America • Church Issues • Community • Counterculture • Dying to Self • God the Father • Godhead • Godly Character • Jesus Christ • Love • Maturity • Relevance • The Holy Spirit
Tagged Boldness, Christianity in North America, Christianity Outside North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, God the Father, Godhead, Godly Character, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Love, Maturity, Relevance
Got about three hours sleep Saturday/Sunday night, so I hit the hay early last night and didn’t post as usual. * I’ll be starting a loosely-connected series of posts on love in the days ahead. Stay tuned. * Brad Hightower gets it. 21st Century Revolution is one of the most challenging blogs out there. Check [...]
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Posted in Miscellany
Tagged hightower, House Church, lauterbach, McKnight, Miscellany
My son suffered the ultimate indignity last week—at least from the perspective of a six-year-old boy. Because our Wednesday’s are crazy, we take that day to eat out. I usually bring it home rather than pay for expensive containers of artificially colored and flavored, H2O-diluted high fructose corn syrup. We’ll drink water from our tap, [...]
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Posted in Benevolence • Best of Cerulean Sanctum • Dying to Self • Faith • Godly Character • Love • Maturity
Tagged Benevolence, Disappointment, Dying to Self, Faith, Godly Character, Love, Maturity, McDonalds, McToy, Suffering
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