Tag Archive: Idolatry

The Big Game – and Big Persepective
Posted February 3rd, 2012 by Mike Hubbard

OK, so I am a sports fan, and really enjoy the Cardinals, Rams, Blues, Tigers, Billikens…  I generally don’t want to see my passion for sports as a form of idolatry, but every so often I need to be reminded that sports is a good thing, but it so easily, for those of us with [...]

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Counterfeit Gods – A resource for thorns
Posted October 6th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

Been using the blog to suggest books to people who hear the Sunday message and wrestle with the various types of dirt in the Parable of the Soils.  This week dirt was filled with thorns, representing those things in our lives that compete with God as the object of our allegiance and worship.  The Bible [...]

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Psalm 4, Joy, and Idolatry
Posted October 4th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

Those pesky thorns and weeds are impossible to get rid of.  Farmers use herbicides, and I use chemicals in my yard trying to kill weeds so the grass can grow.  But somehow they keep showing up.  This is so true in life too!  In the Parable of the Soils (Mark 4:1-20) Jesus uses thorns as [...]

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Idolatry, Baseball, and Your Final Resting Place
Posted August 13th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

I am a sports fan, and at the top of my sporting passion is the love for Cardinal baseball.  My earliest memories are of listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon announce games on the radio talking about the exploits of Bob Forsch, Ted Simmons, and Lou Brock as I fell asleep as a kid.  [...]

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You gotta see this – Driscoll on Nightline discussing idolatry
Posted October 6th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard

Mark Driscoll was on Nightline last night.  I wish I would have known it beforehand so you could have had friends watch, but you can pass this on.  Driscoll is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and the President of the Acts 29 church planting network of which Genesis is a part.  I [...]

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