Barring my faulty memory, and if I’m not lazy, I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This one comes from Acts 4.
Category: church
A while back I did a post where I attacked the position that one must dress up for church. But there was one workaround I purposefully ignored in light of its complexities. “Since it is true that I don’t have to dress up for Church to impress God”, says a reader,” therefore I can dress how I want.” The first half of the answer to this sort of response deals with the subject of modesty and gender specific clothing—a topic I’m not planning to get into in this post. The second half of the answer deals with how we use what we wear.
This doesn’t only apply to clothing. There’s nothing in Scripture against movies (well, certain kinds of movies anyway) but movies can also fall under the usage I plan to explain here. There’s nothing in Scripture against cell phones, iPods, video game systems, cartoons or cheerios either—but all of these will fall underneath the same header: Things that can one can use to illustrate the Gospel.
Last year I spent some time preaching through First Corinthians with an effort at pushing away from church polity and practice (First Corinthians as the model for how we “Do Church”) and underscoring the present importance of the Gospel and how it speaks into our Church experience and everyday lives.
The MP3’s are hosted at Sermon Cloud and are available after the jump.
We’ve considered the necessity of a physical resurrection to the truthfulness and efficacy of the Gospel message. We also dealt with the logical, practical and theological ramifications of a losing a physical resurrection. In the end, we were left with a question on how such a thing would work.
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Christian Carnival Posts
No, I’m not stealing anyone’s glory; I just wanted to make sure there was a backup of the backups that are currently online showcasing past Christian Carnivals. We’ve been doing this for about five years now and, for some odd reason, I started thinking “what if we lose all the links…” Ridiculous, I know.
- The original databases are located here, here, and here.
- The Original Christian Carnival Submission Form was located here.
- As of 2012, the New Submission form is here.
- The hosting schedule is located here.
- Christian Carnival Hosting Instructions are located here.
- Google Groups for the Carnival is located here.
- Extended Carnival Instructions were located here.
- The one who started the ball rolling is here.
- Dory (Wittenberg Gate) and Jeremy Pierce (Parableman) kept the ball on the court for this long.
- July 2011 gave us a new Carnival Organizer: Maryann Spikes
- And July 2011 also brought us the Christian Carnival Facebook page.
The Christian Carnival is on hiatus until further notice.
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January 2014 459 Practical Proverbs