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He?s Adjusting My Vision
1 Oct 2016 at 2:50pm
by pastor.rocklyn

Guest speaker Bishop Marvin L. Sapp preached a powerful word entitled “He’s Adjusting My Vision” at the 2016 Jubilee Convention Wednesday (9/28/2016) evening service at Jubilee Christian Church. The link above is to the video of the entire service (also embedded below). Jubilee Senior Pastor Matthew Thompson introduces Bishop Sapp at 1:09:45 into the video. Eva and I [...]
N. T. Wright: The Kingdom and The Gospel
19 Jun 2015 at 2:49pm
by pastor.rocklyn

N. T. Wright, the former Bishop of Durham for the Church of England, is a devoted pastor, a renowned biblical scholar, and a prolific author. Over the past year or so the following books of his have given me a much better understanding of God’s Kingdom and of The Gospel. You can order them here (as an Amazon.com [...]
Paul and the Faithfulness Of God ? Harvard Divinity School
19 Mar 2014 at 8:49pm
by pastor.rocklyn

N. T. Wright, the former Bishop of Durham for the Church of England, is a devoted pastor, a renowned biblical scholar, and a prolific author. I have been blessed by several of his Wright’s books and video clips over the past few years. On Friday November 13, 2013 Professor Wright came to Harvard Divinity School. [...]
Surprised By Hope
15 Feb 2014 at 8:42pm
by pastor.rocklyn

N. T. Wright, the former Bishop of Durham for the Church of England, is a devoted pastor, a renowned biblical scholar, and a prolific author. I recently finished reading his 2008 book “Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church”. I have read several of N. T. Wright’s books and [...]
Look Back and See God
26 Jan 2014 at 8:24pm
by Valerie Copeland

As I look back I see You; I see your hand, your hand that has guided me through, disappointment and pain, heart ache and shame, darkness and disdain. As I look back I hear you; I hear your voice, your voice calling me back to you, talking me through disappointment and pain, heart ache and [...]
My Spouse is Falling Short
6 May 2013 at 11:00am
by Valerie Copeland

Why aren't we better prepared for the disappointment we?ll experience in our marital partner? It seems to me it should be part of the discussion in premarital counseling. I am certain that I have disappointed my husband in many ways. Some of them he has freely expressed to me, others I strongly suspect. You see, disappointment [...]
Women At Risk ? What Your Pastor May Not Have Told You About Domestic Abuse
8 Mar 2013 at 11:21am
by pastor.rocklyn

Can you spot an abuser? Are you sure? Back in 2010 I came across the book ?Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men? by Lundy Bancroft. It was eye opening – especially because in it Bancroft writes persuasively that abusers have a thinking problem rather than an anger problem. [...]
Rethinking The Gospel and How We Share It
7 Dec 2012 at 11:17pm
by pastor.rocklyn

What Does “The Gospel” Really Mean? Frank Viola has recently written several blog posts promoting a fresh understanding of the gospel: January 26, 2012: Rethinking The Gospel February 11, 2012: Living In The Divine Parenthesis (podcast) April 25, 2012: Rethinking How We Present the Gospel June 18, 2012: Rethinking the Sinner’s Prayer June 26, 2012: [...]
Wiffle Guitar
5 Dec 2012 at 6:57pm
by pastor.rocklyn

Have you ever played wiffle ball? Would you use a guitar as a substitute for a bat in a wiffle ball game? This is one of the questions posed by Shane Hipps, in an unusual yet enlightening sermon. Shane Hipps is one of the teaching pastors at Mars Hill Bible Church and on Sunday June [...]
Abundant Life Is Relational
4 Apr 2012 at 6:56pm
by pastor.rocklyn

Abundant Life In John 10:7-10 Jesus makes a powerful statement about life:   Therefore Jesus said again, ?I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.  All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.  I am the gate; whoever enters through me [...]
Rethinking Grace
10 Feb 2012 at 5:46pm
by pastor.rocklyn

Note (April 13, 2017): This post will be updated (something it badly needs) over the next few weeks! Old Word – New Meaning Several years ago (probably sometime in 2006), while attending a meeting for local clergy, I heard the keynote speaker make a statement that I have never forgotten: “Grace is the empowering presence [...]
Pay Attention (If You Can)
1 Oct 2011 at 9:19pm
by pastor.rocklyn

Several years ago a friend of mine discovered that he had ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). The diagnosis and the medication that he took as a result had a profound effect on him. For the first time in his life he was able to focus. This included actually hearing what people were telling him and remembering [...]
The "Gravitational Model" ? A Metaphor
18 Aug 2011 at 4:29pm
by pastor.eva

I've been intrigued lately by discussions of Bounded versus Centered Set Thinking about the Gospel and the possibility of a Blended approach.  Please see the following links if you are not familiar with these concepts. Bounded versus Centered Set Thinking Blended approach As I've thought about this over the past couple of weeks, I've developed [...]
Prioritizing the Priorities
18 Jan 2010 at 10:40pm
by pastor.eva

If anyone had ever told me I'd feel excited about a purse, I'd have thought they were joking, or perhaps had mistaken me for someone else. But here I am, smiling at the thought of my newest shoulder companion. It's not just that it's pretty, at least in my opinion. What sets my heart aflutter [...]
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