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What men mean for harm, God means for His Glory

2021-07-04T18:15:58+00:00By |Re:Sermon, Theology 101|

You'd have to be a mole trapped in a hole to have not heard of Hamas.  Hamas is the leading militant Palestinian 'political' group, classsief as a terrorist organization by the United States, an acronym Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".  As I have been studying Habakkuk, I came across the Hebrew Word for Violence "HAMAS", meaning ”malicious conduct intended to injure another.  This word appears a number of times in Habakkuk's prayer as a description of what he sees AND of the powerful Babylonians who are rising.  You can probably understand what I was moved by an article today in the Wall Street Journal, detailing the Chrsitian conversion of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Church Planting Lesson #13: It’s not hard to kill a church

2021-07-04T18:15:15+00:00By |Church Plant Lessons 101, Note to Self...and Others, Re:Sermon, Theology 101|

LESSON #13:  IT'S NOT HARD TO KILL A CHURCHThis lesson is very sobering, not mine to write, and hopefully to never experience.  Originally posted by Ray Ortlund's Christ is Deeper Still blog  'How to wreck your church in three weeks'Week One:  Walk into church today and think about how long you’ve been a member, how much you’ve sacrificed, how under-appreciated you are.  Take note of every way you’re dissatisfied with your church now.  Take note of every person who displeases you.Meet for coffee this week with another member and “share your heart.”  Discuss how your church is changing, how you are being left out.  Ask your friend who else in the church has “concerns.”  Agree together that you must “pray about it.”Week Two:  Send an email to a few other “concerned” members.  Inform them that a groundswell of grievance is surfacing in your church.  Problems have gone unaddressed for too [...]

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