Obama’s speech and John Piper
Posted September 6th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
Recently there has been quite a bit of hubbub around the upcoming speech being made by President Barack Obama to school children in America. I know that by even writing about this, I am opening myself to responses from people who might disagree, so feel free to respond. I found this blog posted by John […]
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The “One Anothers” of the New Testament
Posted September 6th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
This morning I will share in my message a key concept as it relates to people living in community with other Christians. Throughout the New Testament, especially in the epistles (letters) the writers use the Greek pronoun allelion, which is a pronoun that marks reciprocation between two or more people or groups, and is most […]
Posted in All About Life, Sermon Thoughts, Theological issues
Thom Rainer on unchurched attitudes toward churched people
Posted August 31st, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
Read this blog by Thom Rainer and it reminded me of the importance of living in Gospel ways with people who are not hanging out at church. Wanted to pass it along.
Posted in All About Life, Living the Gospel, Missional living
Prayers of Praise and Worship
Posted May 23rd, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
The Bible contains some incredible models of prayer given for us to learn and follow. In the next few blogs I am going to include some of the great prayers in the Scriptures. The book of Psalms is primarily a book of prayers, some given as songs and poems. Since there are 150 of those, […]
Posted in All About Life, Worship
Quote from John Calvin on prayer
Posted May 20th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
I mentioned I would post this quote on Sunday. This is by John Calvin on the issue of prayer. “Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting him to do his duty, or of urging him as though he were reluctant. On the contrary, they […]
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