Category: Practical Theology
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A Trinitarian Reading List
As a kind of follow up to yesterday’s post, I’d like to encourage you, if you’re fuzzy on this whole “doctrine of the Trinity” business, to pick up a copy of Fred Sander’s The Deep Things of God while its still cheap. Right now its only $2.99 on Kindle! Whether or not you’ve got a…
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Using The Compound Effect
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] Way back in June in the beginning of this series, I mentioned that you really ought to look into picking up Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect. Coupled with a Christian focus on the goals of discipleship like N. T. Wright’s After You Believe, this book can help provide…
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How To Worship When You Think The Songs Suck
[This post is part of the Revamping Christian Worship series] Before I get started, Josiah or David, if you’re reading this, its not about you. I’ve been thinking about a post like this long before coming to CrossPointe. Now having said that, let’s dive in. You might gather from the title, rightly so, that there…
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From The Garden To The City
John Dyer is the director of web development at my alma mater Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as a graduate from there with his Th.M. He blogs regularly at Don’t Eat the Fruit. In the introduction to the book, Dyer lays out the single statement from one of his professors that seemed to be…
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Revamping Christian Worship
This series was started right after my last year of seminary got underway, and then was quickly abandoned when most of my spare thoughts were redirected to my thesis. I’d like to spend some time thinking through the issues surrounding how we worship through song in church. Having been actively involved in that for the…
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Reshaping Christian Habits Table of Contents
As mentioned earlier, I’m migrating series descriptions and listing of the posts to their own post. In that spirit, here’s what you need to know about the Reshaping Christian Habits series: This came about as part of something I am promoting for additional income here in Florida called the 90-day challenge. I liked their concept as…
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The King Jesus Gospel
Scot McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago. He blogs regularly at Jesus Creed. This is the first book of his I’ve read and I’d like to say I’m inclined to check out some of his other books. In our preaching class, one of the methods for…
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Are You a Mentor or a Shapeshifter?
We tend to be exceptionally egocentric in how we view our own lives. I doubt I am alone in sometimes thinking of my life as the plot of a movie. I’m the protagonist of course, because everything’s all about me right? The harsh truth of the Christian worldview is that while you may feel like…
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Business for the Common Good
As part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series, Kenman Wong and Scott Rae’s contribution focuses on a Christian view of the business world. As the authors themselves say: The idea that business can be a calling is becoming more widely appreciated and accepted. Yet the question of what exactly business is a calling to needs…
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The Weekly Parenthesis
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] As part of reshaping our Christian habits, a significant component is maintaining a weekly Sabbath rest. In reading through Scott Rae and Kenman Wong’s Business for the Common Good (which I’ll review next week) I was reminded once again of the importance of this. In a…