Friday, 19 April 2024

J D Greear

J.D. Greear | Pastor, Author, Theologian

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In Long Beach, California, you can visit the Queen Mary, a ship that’s been turned into a museum. It was originally launched as the ultimate luxury cruise liner of its time. But during World War II, it was commandeered to carry troops back and forth in battle. You can go onto the ship now and see examples of both setups: When it was a luxury liner, it accommodated 3,000 people with every possible convenience; in wartime, however, it was refitted to house 15,000 people. Rooms that once slept one ..

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Most people probably don’t read the Sermon on the Mount and think, “Hey, there’s the secret to happiness!” After all, it seems like a list of things you have to do. And not exciting things, either: Be meek. Be merciful. Be persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

That doesn’t really sound like a list of ways to make my heart happy.

But Jesus says that the meek, the merciful, the persecuted … these people are blessed. That’s the same Greek word for “happy.” He must know something we don’t.

The key ..

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I saw a statistic the other day that I thought was fascinating. High school students (not Christian students, by the way) were given a list of possible goals and asked which three were the most important to them.

Surprisingly, only 18 percent listed “achieving fame or public recognition,” and only 25 percent said “working in a high paying job.”

So what scored high on the list? Among others, making a difference in the world (96 percent), having one marriage partner for life (82 percent), and ha..

Merry Christmas, from DPAC to You!

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Over the past few days, we’ve been celebrating Christmas at DPAC. My prayer for this event—this year more than ever—was that God would use us in humility, so that throughout every service, in every one of us, we would be pointing to the glory of the King of kings. I’ve been praying that people would see and experience the same Jesus who walked the streets of Jerusalem, healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, and raising the dead.

We’re only one day removed from Christmas at DPAC, and alrea..

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Just after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to a couple of his disciples on the road to Emmaus, and began to explain to them—from Moses and all the prophets, how every story in the Old Testament had been about him. He was trying to give them confidence that he really was who he had told them he was.

You might think that the resurrection itself was enough proof. But evidently Jesus believed it would be even more convincing to show them that every single page of a book written by more than 30 dif..

From The Vault: Praying God’s Word Back to Him

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One of the most consistent search items that leads people to jdgreear.com relates to “how to pray God’s Word.” This certainly isn’t a comprehensive article on the matter, but it hints at a few of the ways we should “claim” the promises of Scripture. -CP

If you study the prayers of the Bible, you begin to notice that the prayers God honors and answers are those that repeat his promises back to him. Go and read the story of Jacob, for instance. At the beginning of his life God had prophesied—befo..

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Very excited about Christmas at DPAC. I have a strong sense, even more than usual, that people are really going to come to faith in Christ during this thing.

Over the past few days, I’ve been praying from Psalm 115:

“Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
Why should the nations say,
‘Where is their God?’
Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.”

~Psalm 115:1-3

And what pleases him is to save people…

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Your weekly installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web.

Book Review of the Week

A New Poverty, by Rod Liddle. (A review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance) As a general rule, I (Chris) try to avoid the “it” thing, whether it’s a popular piece of technology, a hot new store, or a widely acclaimed book. So I was reluctant to pick up J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I did pick it up, however, and Vance grabbed me by the collar in t..

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Pastors, I want to suggest to you that something you’ve been seeing as a problem is actually a great opportunity. That something—complaints.

You might think that complaining in churches is a new phenomenon, a product of our consumeristic, navel-gazing culture of narcissism. (And, to be sure, much of it is.) But in the first century church, Luke tells us, “A complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution” (Acts 6:1 ESV).
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There is an art to writing a résumé, where you find a way to brag without looking like you’re bragging.

No one explained that to me the first time I prepared a résumé. I thought it was supposed to be an essay about how awesome you are, so mine was 17 pages long and included every place I’d ever spoken and everything nice someone had ever said about me. Miraculously, I got the job. My first week there, I was told that my résumé was passed around the office, and everyone got a good laugh out of i..

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