Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 || Part 10 || Part 11 || Part 12 || Part 13 || Part 14 || Part 15 || Part 16 Part 17 || Part 18 || Part 19 || Part 20 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: When you read tweets, you don’t pretend to know what’s in the heart of the tweeter. [...]
Archive for July 2011
Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 21
July 31, 201150¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 10
July 30, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 I started a new series on Twitter several months ago, called “50¢ Word(s) of the Day”. Here’s the tenth installment from this past week: Monday: prolegomenon » introductory remarks in which basic principles and premises are enunciated Tuesday: resipiscentia » repentance, a change of mind or heart (Latin [...]
2011 Crossfit Games
July 28, 2011Tomorrow morning is the start of the 2011 Crossfit Games. I am personally not a practitioner of all things Crossfit, but my cousin Jason Khalipa is. In fact, he surprised many in 2008 when he won it all at the 2008 Crossfit Games. He’s going for it again this year, and I’m rooting for him. [...]
The Deeps
July 27, 2011It still amazes me how much a particular prayer from The Valley of Vision resonates with my soul at various seasons or periods in my spiritual journey. This particular prayer, called “The Deeps”, has been the source of meditation and supplication for me recently, and I thought I’d pass it along. BTW, if you are [...]
Church Planter and His Identity in Christ
July 26, 2011Here’s a continuation of the panel discussion from The Gospel Coalition where Tullian Tchividjian, Dave Harvey, and Mike McKinley talk about the church planter and his identity in Christ. I really appreciate these guys addressing church planting from a gospel-centered, theologically-grounded perspective. How does your understanding and appropriating the gospel impact your life as a [...]
Church Planter’s Core Prolegomena
July 25, 2011Last summer, I began a coaching relationship at Grace with a young man sensing a call to plant a church in his urban neighborhood. He is a sharp, articulate, and gifted brother who has not received any formal theological training. In order to gain a better understanding of his theological bearings, I created what I [...]
Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 20
July 24, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 || Part 10 || Part 11 || Part 12 || Part 13 || Part 14 || Part 15 || Part 16 Part 17 || Part 18 || Part 19 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: You’ve learned the limit of words when caring for the crushed, grieving & traumatized. A sign you’re [...]
50¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 9
July 23, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 I started a new series on Twitter several months ago, called “50¢ Word(s) of the Day”. Here’s the ninth installment from this past week: Monday: lex naturalis » natural law (universal moral law impressed by God upon the mind of all people) Tuesday: perspicuitas » perspicuity, clarity of thought [...]
Vacation Reading
July 21, 2011My stack of “to read” books is getting bigger and bigger. Sadly, this year has proved to be a very difficult year for reading and self-feeding, but I’m working on that, beginning with my upcoming time off. I wrestled with what books to take with me this year. A lengthy theological treatise? Moving biography? Leisure [...]
Christopher Wright on Confronting Idols and Making Disciples
July 20, 2011Christopher J.H. Wright is the author of two significant recent works related to mission, namely The Mission of God and The Mission of God’s People. Last November, he sat down with Bill Kinnon and crew to discuss his plenary address from Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. In the excerpt below, Wright explains how [...]
Triperspectival Transitioning (Crafting Culture)
July 19, 2011I have been thinking in recent weeks about the role of leadership in transitioning and in particular a kind of transitioning that requires a paradigm shift of crafting a new culture. For example, how does a church that has largely been ingrown and maintenance-driven become outward-focused and mission-driven? How do you lead a church that [...]
The Mission of the Church
July 18, 2011One of the most significant topics and sustaining conversations in my generation is the mission of the church. Fifteen years ago, “missional” wasn’t in most evangelical’s vocabulary, even less so in their practice. But in recent years, there has been so much talk about mission from all corners of evangelicalism that there is a struggle [...]
Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 19
July 17, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 || Part 10 || Part 11 || Part 12 || Part 13 || Part 14 || Part 15 || Part 16 Part 17 || Part 18 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: When someone finds and eats the cookie you thought you hid well, you don’t pout, much. A sign [...]
50¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 8
July 16, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 I started a new series on Twitter several months ago, called “50¢ Word(s) of the Day”. Here’s the eight installment from this past week: Monday: omnipraesentia –> omnipresence (God is everywhere present, unbound by space or measure) Tuesday: omnisapientia –> omnisapience (having all wisdom and being all-wise, cf. Rom. 16:27) [...]
Thank You John Stott (1921-2011)
July 27, 2011Few people have shaped evangelicalism more in the past 100 years than John R.W. Stott, and this morning he departed to glory with a legacy that will far outlast his lifetime. I never had a chance to meet John Stott, but I felt that I came to know him through his writings in the many [...]
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