Oct 28, 2010
Character Development or the Gospel
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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I just got the 2011 edition of the Vision Forum Catalogue. ( http://www.visionforum.com/ ) We have been getting this catalog for a few years now. We are a family who home-schools, so we are open to anything anyone has to offer regarding the education of our children. I have to admit that every time this one comes though, it just rubs me the wrong way. For sure there are some good educational resources here. What bothers me with it is the message it conveys as a whole though. Throughout the pages there is a
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Oct 25, 2010
The Great Confessions and the Great Commission: Part I.
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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This is the first installment of a series on this subject:
Creeds and confessions has fallen on hard times in modern evangelicalism. The tried and true has been replaced innovational gimmickry and marketing spin. If not merely looked at as passe, they are more often looked at as rigid and restrictive. There is an congenital problem within that line of thinking however. It assumes with the existing independent American spirit that restraint is inherently a bad thing. But we all know experientially that basic restraint is a good thing, and that it is the
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Oct 20, 2010
Its our Fault: Men’s Career idolatry and Women’s Self Image
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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Great little video I came across this morning that I found quite moving. These women talk about the pressure on women to see themselves through the twisted perspectives of the fashion industry and modern feminism. Feminism devalues women by defining them according to men's standards, that she cannot have value unless she has a career, high profile job and wear a pencil skirt suit every day. The Fashion industry screams that you have value if you are 5"7 + and weigh 110 pounds. Here is the video.
I find myself convicted as a man that I am part
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Oct 19, 2010
Blog Sniping… like an internet porn addiciton
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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Dane Ortlund has a great post on how the craving for controversy in the blogosphere is not unlike an online porn addiction. He points to . . . an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people . . . --1 Timothy 6:4b. I thougth this was really inciteful. What I like so much about this post is his emphasis to start with self. This is something that Jesus of course also began with in telling us to not look at the splinter in our brother's eye, but
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