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(Yesterday on the blog: Drowning in an Ocean of Encouragement)

I’m Playing My Harmonica For You

This is a wonderful tribute to one of God’s saints. “I admire the way that she cared for her family. She bloomed right where she was planted, and made it her mission in life to create the fertile soil for her family to flourish as well. Then, she passed along that maternal message to a younger generation of women at the verge of marriage and career.”

Contracts and Covenants

What do you do when the culture you’re speaking to has no notion of a covenant? “‘The only thing we use the word covenant for is Jihad. That’s it.’ I shook my head, feeling simultaneously the joy of deeper insight into the local culture and not a little corresponding trepidation. We are trying to church plant in a culture whose only understanding for covenant looks like Al Qaeda.”

Lemuel Haynes and The Right Preaching of Justice

Jared Wilson holds up Lemuel Haynes as a model of the right preaching of justice. “Right now in American


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