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2016-07-12T22:36:26-05:00

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OMG: Signs and Wonder

Last updated on: July 12, 2016 at 10:36 pm By Jonathan Storment

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau When I was a boy one of the Bible stories that I was the most fascinated with was also one that I found the most disturbing. It was the story of King David bringing the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem. The Ark had been captured by enemies of Israel, the Philistines years earlier. Because the Ark was known as the located presence of... Read more

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2016-07-19T00:38:06-05:00

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OMG: The Glory and The Suffering

Last updated on: July 19, 2016 at 12:38 am By Jonathan Storment

One of the most surprising parts of the Bible for people who are reading it for the first time, is how often the words Glory and Suffering show up in the same breath. Obviously, it’s common sense that those two words don’t belong together. Glory involves power and resources that we use to avoid suffering, suffering involves weakness and death and misery. We know that there’s no glory in suffering, and so we do everything we can to avoid suffering. And more... Read more

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2016-07-12T22:36:09-05:00

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OMG: No Wonder

Last updated on: July 12, 2016 at 10:36 pm By Jonathan Storment

But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. -St. Paul I remember when I stopped believing in God. It was right around the time I started to figure God out. I had been going to seminary for quite a while, and ignoring all my professors’ warnings I began to become more and more prideful about what I knew, and started to look down on all those other stupid people who didn’t quite “get it.” Christianity became for me a system, the Bible became a textbook,... Read more

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2016-07-15T00:33:45-05:00

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Church Work: Before You Go

Last updated on: July 15, 2016 at 12:33 am By Jonathan Storment

One of the conversations I have at least once a week, is with a minister thinking about leaving their church to go to a new church. I always refer them to Wade Hodges ebooks. Wade is the preaching minster at the Preston Road Church of Christ and for this blog series he adapted the following from his ebook: Before You Go: A Few Sneaky-Good Questions Every Minister Should Answer Before Moving to a New Church. Last week he talked about when the right... Read more

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2016-07-13T22:09:53-05:00

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OMG: The Cup of Wonder

Last updated on: July 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm By Jonathan Storment

“Entertainment is what the church does when it isn’t satisfied in God.” -A.J. Swoboda “Here we are now. Entertain us.” -Nirvana Several years ago, Dan Kimball was looking for more in life. He had grown up without any church background, and he kept finding himself more and more drawn to Jesus. So eventually he talked his friend Randy into going with him to an old Presbyterian church by their college. For those of you who can remember the first time... Read more

2016-07-12T22:36:36-05:00

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The Bible Is Very Easy to Understand

Last updated on: July 12, 2016 at 10:36 pm By Jonathan Storment

“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obligated to act accordingly.Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get... Read more

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2016-07-11T23:41:27-05:00

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The Healing of the Nations: It Takes One to Know One

Last updated on: July 11, 2016 at 11:41 pm By Jonathan Storment

If you missed yesterday’s post then please go back and read this first. It’s a brief history of racism in the Bible, and how Jesus’ ministry was consistently addressing it and dismantling it. But that’s not the end of the story. After Jesus is killed and raised from the dead, there’s another Jewish leader. A guy named Paul, who was basically operating as a Jewish terrorist in his day, is hell bent on stopping this budding new Christian movement, that is,... Read more

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2016-07-11T09:48:18-05:00

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The Healing of the Nations: A Brief History of Racism

Last updated on: July 11, 2016 at 9:48 am By Jonathan Storment

Last week was bad. From Philando Castile and Alton Sterlin to the Dallas shootings, every day there was a new tragedy that only deepened the growing racial divide that we have in America. As a white-bodied man, I want to be an ally to my black brothers and sisters but often don’t know where to jump in. And as I said a couple of weeks ago, I don’t think the best place for me to start is on social media. But... Read more

2016-07-01T13:46:35-05:00

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Church Work: When To Leave Your Church

Last updated on: July 1, 2016 at 1:46 pm By Jonathan Storment

One of the questions I get asked often is by young ministers who are thinking of leaving their current church for greener pastures. I always refer them to Wade Hodges ebooks. Wade is the preaching minster at the Preston Road Church of Christ and for this blog series he adapted the following from his ebook When To Leave: How To Know It’s Time To Move On (Before You Stay Way Too Long) Meet Wade: How I Stayed Way Too Long (Twice) Once upon... Read more

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2016-07-01T13:37:51-05:00

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OMG: Like A Child

Last updated on: July 1, 2016 at 1:37 pm By Jonathan Storment

“When I was a child I thought like a child, when I became a man I put away childish things, including the need to be grown up.”-C.S. Lewis Last summer, I had a great opportunity to go with my 6 year old daughter to visit Razorback stadium in Fayetteville Arkansas. I’ve grown up watching every Razorback game on television, I’ve taught my kids the Arkansas fight song, I’ve dreamed about getting to walk on that field since I was a... Read more

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