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mystery and silence

posted by adam on 12.04.2006

This morning on my 30 commute to work I listened to two short sermons by Randy Harris, a professor of theology at ACU. He was speaking about mystery and silence. You can download his sermons for free here:
God in the Darkness 1
God in the Darkness 2
Harris talks about our tendency to shy away from mystery […]

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the new army

posted by adam on 10.13.2006

I don’t know much about the army. As a kid, I liked to play guns and I had a decent collection of GI Joes, but that’s really about as far as my fantasies of army-life went. I didn’t have any relatives who served in the armed forces. I didn’t have any friends who enlisted. I […]

discipleship, church, spiritual disciplines | 4 comments »

no good reason

posted by adam on 08.07.2006

I was talking with a friend a couple of years ago about God and where each of us where with Him and my friend and I both commented that we felt like we’d drifted, not so much in our behaviors, but more along the lines of the closeness of our relationships with Him. Neither of […]

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the call to prosper

posted by adam on 05.13.2006

There is a profound interest lately in the idea that God has in mind to “prosper” his people. I’ve encountered this idea myself in a number of books I’ve read and (more often) skimmed. Walk into any Christian bookstore and you’ll be confronted with a number of popular writers expounding on all the reasons and […]

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