tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200988322011-06-08T02:15:49.076-04:00for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ Ephesians 4:12Peternoreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20098832.post-13805501659319921092008-02-13T14:21:00.004-05:002008-02-13T14:29:02.602-05:00

So, it's been a year since I posted and I wanted to celebrate this momentous occasion with a quick post. I ran across this picture on the internet and I think that this is the new face of the Emergent movement.I mean, a goatee? Really Pastor Mark? Wow. :o)

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Last week, my grandfather sent us a congratulations on engagement card along with some money. We were more than willing to use that money for a Valentine's Day date that I was planning to take Leann on anyway. There was no way to celebrate on the actual day, because we would be at church on Wednesday night. So the question became: the weekend before or the weekend after? We decided on the

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I know many of you are anxiously awaiting the results of the competition. Please be patient, our judge... I mean judges are diligently working to determine the winner. In the meantime, I have a question to ask you. The question is this:What do you do when a group of people try to convince you not to be influenced by peer pressure?Hmmmmm... see why I called it perplexing? Impress me. Please.

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I just love contests! This one was inspired by my sister Jen. She told me "I want you to use that word... let me know the results". So, I present theThat's right folks, the 1st Annual Word Usage Challenge! No competition has shorter reaching consequences than this one right here. The word that you have to use in some way (via a comment, please do not remain anonymous - you can't win that way!) is

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This is a collage I made for Leann. I put it in a frame and gave it to her at the last Artist Series along with 3 red roses. I know, I know. I'm just a helpless romantic. What can I say? My mom and sisters trained me well.

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I had to write a Mother's Day sermon for one of my classes. For the assignment, we had to envision a mixed audience (i.e. both saved and lost present), so I included what I tried to make a clear presentation of the gospel. Here we go...Listen to the words of James in James 1:19-21“But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the

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Who would win in a fight between:the A-Team and Chuck Norris?

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If you were confronted by this manWould this be your response?It seemed like a good question to me...

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Just in case you were wondering (like you would be), the terms ordinance and sacrament are not synonymous. There is much difference between the two. If you believe in a sacramental system, you are saying that you are gaining grace from (earning favor with) God because of these things that you are doing: baptism and communion being the most common, also marriage, penance, anointing of the sick,

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I had some sweet conversations today and some others that have taken place recently, and I am very thankful for them. Ross Shannon, the assistant dorm-supervisor, and I chatted for a long time about the call to the ministry and some other encouraging stuff on Friday night. Tonight, I talked with my good friend Aaron Camp (who would be pretty impressive if he was a buck instead of a human) about

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Perhaps this question has never entered your mind or perhaps it has been plaguing you with sleepless nights for years. Either way, allow me to enlighten you.It all began exactly 2 years ago, in the good old days of 212 North. The men involved: myself, Andrew Riggs, Bruce Dare, Jarred Hallman, and Microsoft Sam. We found much pleasure late at night in talking to each other through the speech

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Some quotes that accompany this picture are:"What a stood!""He's going to be a heartbreaker!""He already is a heartbreaker!"

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What a fun town Cedar Springs is! Okay, it probably has to do more with the company I'm keeping than the actual town itself. Leann and I have had a super sweet time, let me tell you. We went to a concert on Saturday night, an emerging church on Sunday morning, water skiing on a lake Sunday afternoon, and Leann's church for the Sunday evening service. Talk about busy! Speaking of which, I went

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Well, my internship is now over. What a summer I've had! I could not have asked for a better internship than I had at New Hope. And I wouldn't even if I could. But there was one incredibly positive thing that came from my internship ending. I got to see Leann! That might not have been the best tense usage, excuse me. I am getting to see Leann would probably be more fitting. After 2 brief hours of

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A man here at New Hope gave me a copy of a message on heaven by Jonathan Edwards because of some comments that I made during a message on Ephesians 1. As I look over it, I am in awe over the truths that he is mentioning. When I think of heaven, my thoughts are often jumbled. I try to run through the different facts about heaven that I've learned from the Scripture. Facts like the dimensions of

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What a fun week! It was Vacation Bible School week here at New Hope Baptist Church and I was in charge of games. Monday went great. Great games, great fun. It was great. And then Tuesday came. I wouldn't exactly describe Tuesday as great because I got sick on Tuesday. Really sick. For some reason unknown to me, my body wasn't happy with how things were going. So it decided that it should clean

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Some weeks ago, I decided to branch off my New Testament studies and began reading in Isaiah, an Old Testament prophetic book, just in case you didn't know that. This read-through with occasional stops for further study (like in Isaiah 40, a must read!) has proven to be quite profitable to me. The thought that pulsates through my mind chapter by chapter is the incredible sovereignty of God that,

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Well, I think I've narrowed in on the heart of the issue. I want the Equipping Room to be a semi-professional type blog. I want it to look sharp. I want the posts to sound good. Et cetera. But all these things take time, and I just simply don't have the heart late at night to put the necessary time into it. So I don't post. Then I think, I haven't posted in a while. I really should do that

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I can now say, with utmost pleasure, that my mom's link is actually valid. I've been waiting and waiting for her school year to finish so she could post and so I could announce it. Well, here is the announcement: My wonderful mother, as the link title expresses, has entered the realm of the bloggers by posting for the first time on her very own blog. If you have a hard time finding links to blogs

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Ladies and Gentlemen! Is it possible that this vile beverage could actually taste as bad as it smells? YES! It is true! I know it's hard to believe, but you can believe it! Moxie is disgusting. Is this just the opinion of an outsider? Would all Mainers disagree? No! As a matter of fact, many Mainers hate this substance (do I dare to call it liquid?) as well. The most popular uses of it include:

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I just counted it up on my fingers. Twice. And although it doesn't seem possible, I have only been in Maine for 10 days. I think it was this past Saturday that the Rebert family and I were so surprised that it had been one week ago that I arrived at New Hope. Thank you all for your prayers. It has been an amazing 10 days. The people at the church have welcomed me with open arms (and a lot of

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The purpose of this post is multi-faceted. #1: to inform those uninformed of my summer plans and #2: to update those informed of my summer plans. So, here's the post: In order to meet the graduation requirements of my degree at NBBC, I am required to be a pastoral intern at a church for one summer. That is what I am doing this summer. I am currently in Farmington, Maine (the capital of the

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Well, school is out and I just can't believe that summer is actually here. It seems like just last week that I was working at Southland in Louisiana, but in reality it was a year ago! Wow. Anyway, I'm in the midst of a summer school course on Baptist History at Northland. I mean... I'm in Rome, visiting the Colosseum with Leann. We are having an awesome time! I was invited to preach the gospel

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I WOULD PROPOSE THAT THE SUBJECT OF THE MINISTRY IN THIS HOUSE, AS LONG AS THIS PLATFORM SHALL STAND, AND AS LONG AS THIS HOUSE SHALL BE FREQUENTED BY WORSHIPPERS, SHALL BE THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST. I AM NEVER ASHAMED TO AVOW MYSELF A CALVINIST; I DO NOT HESITATE TO TAKE THE NAME OF BAPTIST;

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"A genuine test of orthodoxy is how one responds to false doctrine." (Dr. Gerrald Priest, in my Baptist History class) Will we be tolerant? Intolerant? or Acceptant? May we militantly defend the TRUTH!

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Okay, so here's a list of things that I have to accomplish:1. Clean room2. nothing3. nothing4. nothing5. nothing6. nothing7. nothing8. nothing9. nothing...143. nothing144. nothing145. nothing...1,334,392. nothing1,334,393. nothingMy semester is over. :-)

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Today is the last day of classes at school. This is so wonderful that I didn't see the need to say anything more or different.

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On April 26, at 8:05 pm, Alicia commented that she was having trouble clicking on the link labeled my wonderful mother. Others of you may be having the same problem with attempts to see my adorable nephew Ethan. The answer to your question, Al, is that these are not truly links at all. My mom, as wonderful as she may be, does not have a blog. My nephew Ethan, undoubtedly adorable, is 1 year old (

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This is indeed a sad day, for it is the first time I must defend myself from spiteful slander that is being propagated about me on the blogging world. This picture, which may seem incriminating to my person, should not be taken as negative! The information which was left out of the infamous post is crucial to discovering the truth.First, I was invited to the Belford house. This may not seem to be

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I was reminded this evening at church of who and what I am associating myself with, as a Christian. The verse, I believe in Hebrews, about bearing the reproach of Christ outside the camp was brought up and the recent picture that has been in my mind of the crucifixion came back with force. Why is it that the gospel was a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks? Why do people not

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I am disobedient to my parents.I am disrespectful to all authority.I am jealous of all men.I am envious of all possessions.I am a liar.I am a thief.I am an idolater.I am a blasphemer.I am an adulterer.I am a murderer.But I have been saved by the grace of God and it restrains me so that none of these things are true. And though you may not view me as perfect, God does, for I am righteous through

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Here is another sermon that I prepared and preached for my Pulpit Speech class. I trust the Lord will use His Word to equip you for the work of service and build you up.Text: Psalm 103:9-12It has been said that next to Psalm 23, Psalm 103 is the most popular of all the psalms in the Psalter. As we look at Psalm 103, we must take notice of the capstones of this psalm in the first and last verses.

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ubiquitous

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Spring Break. The very words cause a sigh of relief to escape from the deepest recesses of my soul. Okay, so maybe that's a little over the top. But I am relieved to be on break. I'm currently en route to Oklahoma, where I will be spending a few days with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew. My flight today from Milwaukee to Atlanta was slightly eventful. Due to a limited number of seats on

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elucidate

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obsequious

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I found this while (safely) drifting around the blogosphere. It was a post on mercy that unfortunately, I was only able to skim. However, while skimming, this list caught my eye and my heart. Hopefully it will do the same for you. Mercy is God giving us the breath with which we dishonor Him.Mercy is God sparing the blood-handed murderers of His Son.Mercy is God transforming the most degraded of

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Cognizant

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Sorry I haven't posted for so long, but I was visiting one of my favorite seminaries in the country. I took a little vacation to Minnesota to see Bethel Seminary and Dr. Greg Boyd. Let me tell you guys, Boyd has some great things to say about why God allows bad things to happen to us. The answer is: He doesn't allow bad things to happen to us. Boyd, along with Clark Pinnock and John Sanders,

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So maybe this slogan isn't quite as catchy as the one proposed in In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, but it certainly is relevant to our Christian lives. I was holed up in my room today, studying and reading, as usual. In order to catch up in my Greek Syntax class, I had to translate several verses in Mark 5. This isn't the hardest task in the world, but with several words to define, parse

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This is a sermon I prepared for a Pulpit Speech class at school. I thought it might be fitting for a post.Text: 1 Kings 17:17-24 Let me introduce you to a story about Elijah. A story so characterized by faith that the Holy Spirit inspired the author of Hebrews to include it in the famous “Hall of Faith” in Hebrews chapter 11. In verse 35, we discover that by faith “women received back their dead

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I want to praise God for answering a long time prayer request of mine. I play guitar at church for my youth group in Sunday School and anytime we have group activities. At the beginning of last semester, a friend of mine gave me a guitar that had some fairly serious problems, but worked nonetheless. It worked well for the time, but I knew I needed something that was in a little better shape, so I

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I first heard this poem read by Mark Minnick at the conclusion of one of his sermons on Galatians 5. It provides some great application to test whether we are walking in the Spirit and seeing the fruit of that walk in our lives. Don't get me wrong, you can do these things and still not be walking in the Spirit. There is no spiritual checklist that makes us right with God. But maybe this can

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In case any of my readers are confused, I excoriate (today's word of the day) Hilbert's views. Since he is my one and only pet duck, I have given him open posting privileges. But before the stake is lit, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of the main page. That should provide adequate explanation. Thank you for reading!

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I was thinking the other day, maybe we have been too harsh on Pelagius. I mean, condemning someone for his teachings just because they denied the sovereign work of God in salvation? Come on! Quack! Quack! Quack!

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Everyone is searching for peace. All too often, peace is considered to be the absence of conflict. But the Bible tells us clearly that the conflicts will never end until Jesus reigns, after the 7 year tribulation. To say it even clearer: I believe in an imminent, pre-tribulational, pre-millenial rapture, and you can quote me on that. Back to the point: the Bible teaches a different kind of peace

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Ephesians 4:12 in the original Greek

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While reading John 1 last night before I went to bed, I was struck again with the words of John the Baptist. He knew that he was not the Christ and was anxious to point his listeners to the true Messiah, Jesus Christ. Obviously, the most glorious parts of John 1 are the passages in regard to the Incarnation, but the true humility of John the Baptist is an excellent example to those of us

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