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Uncommon Musings: November 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Monday, November 23, 2009. Theology of Spirit Gifts. The purpose of the gifts is to unite the people of God for the praise of God. The Spirit’s work in the book of Acts was often marked by miraculous gifts…but it is clear in the Bible that gifts were not the goal, spiritual transformation was and should still be. Filling with the Spirit produces fruit (Gal. 5:22-26), which is played out in the way that we live our lives. Monday, November 9, 2009. One of ...
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Uncommon Musings: July 2008
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. John 8: Part 3. I hope that the thought process has been convincing to either embrace the episode of the adulterous woman (the Pericope Adulterae or P.A. from hereon) and learn from it as inspired by God, or to remove it from the texts of Holy Scripture and consider a nice story, but not as authoritative in how we learn of God's grace and Kingdom. We cannot have our proverbial cake and eat it on this. A While subtle, the story fit...
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Uncommon Musings: April 2010
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Update and new Blog. I will begin preaching my last series for Missio Dei Church, Asheville beginning this Sunday, May 2. We will take 12 weeks and work through Habakkuk: wrestling with faith. I hope that it will be an encouraging series for our community. This is the final post for this blog. With the transition to plant a new church, I am blogging here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Missio Dei Church Online. Update and new Blog.
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Uncommon Musings: February 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. It's in the Bible, you know. On Sunday, I made some bold claims that polygamy is not for God's people in light of New Testament revelation. While I stated this emphatically, and generally everyone seems agreeable, there is a mountain of evidence in Scripture and throughout history that contradicts that claim. Let me introduce this topic by offering a few examples. Later, in Genesis 21:12-13, we see that God blesses the resul...
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Uncommon Musings: October 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The problem we have in believing this is that the stories of our lives seem to lack these qualities. We experience among other things, frustration, heartbreak, misunderstanding, abuse, confusion, and tragedy in a way that makes us feel powerless and insignificant. So what happened? This begs the question, how can we explain beauty and justice if we are corrupt? So what is our hope of escaping the curse of God? Jeff Vanderstelt ...
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Uncommon Musings: December 2008
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Thursday, December 11, 2008. Winter Preaching Series: Relationships and Sex. Given the wide and various assumptions and prohibitions many of us have experienced in the church when it comes to relationships and sexuality, we thought it pertinent to explore and unpack what God actually tells us. You may already have a plethora of questions and can begin asking immediately. The series will include the following topics:. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Main se...
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Uncommon Musings: May 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Ministry Structure at Missio Dei Part 1. Missio Dei Church began with a general dissatisfaction with the many and varied forms by which church was being done. It seemed as though the grand story of God’s Gospel and Kingdom were at best forgotten and at worst, being ignored, minimized or changed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am the lead Pastor for Missio Dei Church in Asheville, NC. Missio Dei Church is in the city for the ci...
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Uncommon Musings: August 2008
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, August 20, 2008. John 8: Part 4. Most of you have lost interest in this thread, but I am no quitter and I mean to finish sharing my thoughts. Let me recap the arguments against the inclusion of the story regarding the woman caught in adultery at John 8. 1 The author couldn't be John because of the use of uncommon words. 2 Oldest collections of the text put it somewhere else in John, the NT, or do not include it. In the early 300's AD, Eusebius...
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Uncommon Musings: August 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. There's a little phrase that the Gospel writer, Luke, uses that has for the past several months wrecked me in terms of conviction and comfort. The night before Jesus arrest, trials and crucifixion, spent by all that has come to pass and in the midst of all that is to come, Luke writes, "And he came out and went, as was his custom. Of going away alone from the busyness and urgency of His ministry and this night was no exception.
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Uncommon Musings: September 2009
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Ponderings of a Reformed Missional Church Planter. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. The third misunderstanding, while serving as a motivation to bad views of predestination actually stems from a misunderstanding about God himself. This view is that election is unfair. After all, doesn’t God want to save everybody as in I Tim. 2:3-4 and II Pet. 3:9? Monday, September 21, 2009. Who Were the Recipients of the Letter to the Ephesians? Monday, September 14, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am the lead Pastor...