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Continue reading →: Time
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” – Margaret Peters Time works wonders for us. With the passage of times comes perspective and clarity. We grow older and hopefully wiser. However, there can be a cruel twist with time. Some of us only discover what is…
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Continue reading →: Little Christs
“The church exists for nothing else but to draw men unto Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.” – C.S. Lewis Little…
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Continue reading →: We’re On A Mission From God
“Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God.” – David Bosch I would take this quote one step further: Mission is not merely an attribute of God, one among many things that God is… God is holy, God is…
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Continue reading →: Dependence Day
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” – Patrick…
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Continue reading →: Happiness Takes Work
“The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who in the middle of great wealth are starving spiritually.” – Martin Seligman One of…
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Continue reading →: Happy?
“To live well myself is my first and essential contribution to the well-being of all mankind and to the fulfillment of man's collective destiny. If I do not live happily myself how can I help anyone else to be happy, or free, or wise?” – Thomas Merton The question one…
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Continue reading →: Happy Mother’s Day… to My Mom
I posted two years ago and last year, thought it was worth re-posting, again!! Mom… thanks! Thanks for loving me, even when I was unloveable. Thanks for raising me in the way I should go. Thanks for taking me to church. Thanks for showing me the meaning of grace.…
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Continue reading →: On the Death of Usama bin Laden
Last night I was pretty tired so I went to bed early. Like many nights I turned on the television in my bedroom and caught up with the news. At the bottom of the screen, the message indicated President Obama was to make a statement at 10:30 p.m. I thought…
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Continue reading →: Rob Bell’s Hell, part 2
As promised, here is my review of Rob Bell's new book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. HarperCollins, 2011. First, a disclaimer. This is not a thorough, point-by-point scholarly review. This is written primarily for people with no formal theological…
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Continue reading →: A Great Sermon on Hell
I received a lot of feedback on my last post concerning Rob Bell's video promoting his new book in which it seems he might be lurching toward universalism and away from the traditional Christian understanding of the existence of hell. This morning I read an excellent sermon on the subject…
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I’m Chris
Welcome to Flourishing Life, a space designed to help you pursue the abundant life God offers everyone. Jesus said in John 10:10, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (ESV). I’m convinced God created the world for flourishing human life. However, we’ve all contributed to the brokenness in the world and our own lives. Many don’t even realize a better way is possible. My hope for this blog is that you’ll discover the life God has always intended for you, the ones you love, and the world.
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