Music Wednesday – “Don’t Waste Your Life”, Lecrae

Absolutely great stuff.

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Don’t Waste Your Life Mix

“Don’t Waste Your Life” by Lecrae from the new Rebel album, with clips from the “Don’t Waste Your Life” sermon by John Piper.

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“Growing the Local Church” Q&A

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“Growing the Local Church” – Evangelism and Church Growth (Pastor Jason Montgomery)

My notes verbatim from “Evangelim and Church Growth” by Jason Montgomery: (remember, my words, NOT JASON’s    )

Did Jesus have to die for the Church to grow?  (first question)
This is a question that needs to be considered by every faithful preacher of the Word of God.
The Gospel is absolutely unexpected.
The Word of the Gospel [...]

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iMonk and “Evangelism Won’t Cure It”

The Internet Monk has a very interesting post on Southern Baptists and our denominational emphasis on evangelism.
Here are a couple of lines regarding baptism.
I’m part of a denomination that regularly baptizes five, six and seven year olds, then has the nerve to point at infant baptizing Christians and criticize them.
I’m part of a denomination that [...]

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Quote of the Week – David Livingstone on a Missionary’s Sacrifice

“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa….It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.”
- David Livingstone

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Music Wednesday – Begin With the End

This is another great song from the guys at 116 Clique, called “Begin with the End”.
The song comes from an album called “13 Letters“, which is basically a summary of Paul’s Epistles in rap form.
Pure Greatness.

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Quote of the Week – Hudson Taylor on Missionary Requirements

“There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.”
- Hudson Taylor

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Music Wednesday – Send Me

This music video was put together by the guys at History Makers.  The artist is Lecrae.  The song is “Send Me”.

send me I’ll go,
send me I’ll go,
lemme go lemme go!
(repeat x4)
i seen it with my own two,
there’s no way i can show you
a perfectly poverty stricken people with no view.
And i [...]

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Music Wednesday – Tears of the Saints

“Tears of the Saints” by Leeland.

There are many prodigal sons
On our city streets they run
Searching for shelter
There are homes broken down
People’s hopes have fallen to the ground
From failures
This is an emergency!
There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back [...]

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Timmy Brister on Adoption

I just came across this on Timmy Brister’s blog regarding the upcoming 2008 Together for Adoption Conference.
“One of the greatest ways to live counter-culturally in our day of rugged individualism where personal ambition and careers eclipse the call to embrace children is the practical application of the doctrine of adoption.  If our spiritual adoption is [...]

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Quote of the Week – William Booth

Missions has been on my mind quite a bit, so for the next few weeks I’m going to have mission’s quotes for the QOTW.  Enjoy. 
“‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners [...]

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Music Wednesday – Give Me Your Eyes … For Ireland

This week’s song is “Give Me Your Eyes” by Brandon Heath.
I made the video this past weekend.  In the video, the first song is Bi Thusa Mo Shúile (Be Thou My Vision) by Máire Ní Bhraonáin, and then it is followed by Give Me Your Eyes.

The lyrics are below.
Looked down from [...]

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Spurgeon and Johnson on The Church and Her Witness

“We need to have more confidence in the ability of the Word of God to penetrate people’s hearts. This is one of the real deficiencies in this generation of evangelicals. We don’t have enough faith in the power of God’s Word to penetrate a hardened heart. Some Christians-and even lots of churches-actually back away from [...]

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Music Wednesday – Mission’s Flame

This is a song I ran across and made this video for, maybe 2-3 years ago, about worship being the fuel for mission’s flame (by Matt Redman).

Verse 1
Let worship be the fuel for mission’s flame
We’re going with a passion for Your name
We’re going for we care about Your praise
Send us out [...]

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