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PostConsumer Reports: PostHumous Book Review: Station Eleven: Remaining Human after Doomsday
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PostHumous Book Review: Station Eleven: Remaining Human after Doomsday. Personal reflections on books worthy of a re-read. Read the intro article. Today's review is by guest writer Joe Johnson. At first glance, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven: A Novel. Belongs on the same well-trodden path as other it’s-the-end-of-the-world tales, like Stephen King’s formidable, The Stand. Or George Stewart’s Earth Abides. Was beautiful,” as I finish it, yet Station Eleven. Commented, “ Station Eleven. To Kirsten,...
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PostConsumer Reports: Speaking the Truth in Love—A Sermon From Ephesians 4:1-16
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Speaking the Truth in Love—A Sermon From Ephesians 4:1-16. This sermon was preached on August 2, 2015 at Epiphany Anglican Mission. We will go back and link some of the bigger ideas to this one concept, but our main focus will be on this one difficult task. It is a great sentiment, speaking the truth in love, but how to actually do so is quite the undertaking. Or are in fact doing something that is wrong. When it comes to giving out criticism. Speak the truth to someone in person for fear of rejection or...
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PostConsumer Reports: PostHumous Book Review: The Time Traveller's Wife and Sanctification
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PostHumous Book Review: The Time Traveller's Wife and Sanctification. Personal reflections on books worthy of a re-read. Read the intro article. Today's review is by guest writer Dan Leman. My long time friend and local pastor. The Time Traveller’s Wife. Taught me the secret to loving someone who consistently falls short of the person you want them to be. I think this is also the secret of God’s unfailing love toward us as we consistently fall short of who he wants us to be. Romans 8:29-30 says,. 8220;Fo...
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PostConsumer Reports: So...They Made a Movie About Rich Mullins...
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SoThey Made a Movie About Rich Mullins. My favorite Rich Mullins picture (a cropped version of this. Appears as the cover of A Liturgy, A Legacy, and A Ragamuffin Band. Here you can find my interview with Mullins' producer Reed Arvin. Here you can find my podcast where I interview the film's director, David Leo Schultz. Here you can find my reflection on A Liturgy A Legacy And A Ragamuffin Band. And here you can find my thoughts on "The Theology of Rich Mullins.". So, what I am going to do is let you, th...
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PostConsumer Reports: The Moment I Began to Lose Faith in Contemporary Worship Music
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The Moment I Began to Lose Faith in Contemporary Worship Music. It was strange how it happened, the time I began to lose faith in contemporary worship music. It began during the weekly process of selecting the songs for worship at the church I was serving at. To my surprise Jay, our pastor, despite all my protestations and reasonings would not let me (us) do the song in our church. He did not think it was a good idea for our congregation and he had his reasons. I am the kind of person who is deeply inves...
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PostConsumer Reports: "I've been thinking of getting into politics...": N.T. Wright's Understanding of the Kingdom of God
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I've been thinking of getting into politics.": N.T. Wright's Understanding of the Kingdom of God. Anyone who knows me knows that I really try to avoid talking about politics. I just wanna minister to people and make art n' stuff, you know man? But really my disassociation with politics also stems from being more concerned with how the Church as a body should behave morally and ethically. So yeah, down with politics! And all that, because I'm a Christian and the Church don't need no politics! To be clear,...
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PostConsumer Reports: What Marc Maron's Interview With President Obama Means
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What Marc Maron's Interview With President Obama Means. I have let it be known before that I am pretty skeptical of any and all politics and politicians. Be they right, left, or independent I do not think they have merited much of a reason for me or any of us to trust them. I mean really, in a post-Nixon world, will we ever be able to believe in politicians again, believe they are in reality the kind of person they said they are, believe they will do what they said they will do, and believe why. But what...
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PostConsumer Reports: ABOUT
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8220;NO MAN BUT A BLOCKHEAD EVER WROTE EXCEPT FOR MONEY.”. PostConsumer Reports—thoughts on art, faith, and the intersection of the two—is the blog of Chris Marchand, (for an explanation of the blog's title see here: A Report on PostConsumer Reports. Chris is a music and worship pastor at Epiphany Anglican Mission in Peoria, Illinois ( www.epiphanypeoria.org. And the headmaster (principal) of Aletheia Christian School in that same city ( www.peoriaclassical.org. The blog features a number of different on...
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PostConsumer Reports: PostHumous Book Review: The Mundane Miracles of the Hiding Place
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PostHumous Book Review: The Mundane Miracles of the Hiding Place. Personal reflections on books worthy of a re-read. Read the intro article. Corrie Ten Boom's now classic autobiography The Hiding Place. Recounting her time working as part of the Dutch underground during World War II and her enduring of Nazi prisons and concentration camps with her sister Betsie is a surprising book on a number of fronts. Are ever increasing miracles of the mundane. They are. Miracles, some more mundane than others. In in...
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PostConsumer Reports: The Great Worship Music Binge of 2015
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The Great Worship Music Binge of 2015. 2015 will be the year I look back on as the time I consumed more worship music than could ever be deemed healthy or even sane. You see, I have a lot of catching up to do. Ever since graduating seminary in 2010 I have hardly listened to any new worship music or even taken the time to learn "new" old hymns. UPDATE: If you are curious what songs made my final list, you can find them here:. The Best New Worship Music (according to PostConsumer Reports). I had two more.
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