Bits & Pieces (3/28/12)

  • Your Church & Your Life Planning – Are we considering the impact of on our decisions on the local church? While it might not be the only factor we consider, this post makes the case that it should at least be a factor.

 

  • Over-Involved Parents – Do so-called “helicopter-parents” stymie not only a child’s maturation but their creative impulses as well?

 

  • Workaholism – Has work become a god? This post (and podcast) looks at the symptoms of workaholism and some solutions.

 

 

  • The map & the plan – We often want the perfect plan; Jon Acuff reminds us that Christ-followers already have a perfect Messiah.
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Bits & Pieces (3/27/12)

  • The Demands of Justice – A weighty and thoughtful post about our desire for justice and God’s delivery of it.

 

  • Dum Dums – A reminder that God does not give equally or similarly but He does give perfectly.

 

  • Big Prayers – Are we praying grand prayers or do we settle for the “organ recitals?”

 

  • Diagnosing Diagnostics – How are we evaluating our walk with God? What measures are indicative of Kingdom progress?

 

  • Boycotting Starbucks – Dr. Russell Moore reminds us that we should “[l]et others fight Mammon with Mammon” and we should “struggle against principalities and powers with the One thing they fear: a word of faithful witness that doesn’t blink before power, but doesn’t seek to imitate it either.”

 

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