Friday, 3 May 2024

J D Greear

J.D. Greear | Pastor, Author, Theologian

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

Video of the Week

Pastor, What Do You Fear Most in Your Ministry? Danny Akin, Bill Kynes, Miguel Nunez. This is an enlightening conversation between three men who have been in the ministry for years. Most pastors can relate to the fears these three mention here. And many non-pastors may be surprised at what pastors fear most.

Articles of the Week

Women and Sexual Temptation: Learning to Talk About Lust, Kelly N..

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In 2005, almost by accident, The Summit Church moved to a multi-site strategy. We made the move because our worship services were full, and we had already multiplied the number of services to the breaking point. It’s the sort of “problem” any church would love to have! We learned on the fly, and over the past decade, we’ve been adjusting how we approach the multi-site model. As I’ve said before (and we’ve written extensively), we believe the multi-site model can be evangelistically effective, pa..

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If you’ve ever driven along the Blue Ridge Parkway, you might have seen a sign that says, “Eastern Continental Divide.” It’s the line that marks the eastward and westward slopes of our continent. Raindrops that fall even an inch to the west of the divide will flow westward toward the Mississippi River; those that fall to the east go all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. So, two raindrops that land one centimeter apart could end up in oceans thousands of miles apart.

The story of the two thieves on..

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I feel like everyone in my family has some kind of irrational fear.

Allie, my 10-year-old, was scared of the movie The Incredibles until she was 6 years old. I have no idea why. And my wife Veronica is terrified of spiders. It doesn’t matter how small the spider is, her reaction would make you think it’s huge and requires Hazmat gear and a compound bow to remove. Again, this fear is totally irrational to me. It’s just a spider.

We all know someone with an irrational fear. Maybe others think yo..

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In the days when John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, baptism was not completely uncommon. John was not doing a brand new thing, but at the time, Jews used baptism in only two ways:

First, baptism was part of the conversion process for Gentiles to become Jews. This process typically involved three things: you were circumcised (which I think had to reduce the potential male convert pool pretty dramatically), you memorized some key passages out of the law, and you got baptized, sh..

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Most of us know what it’s like to feel insecure, to feel like we just aren’t up to a particular challenge. Maybe you just got hired for a job you aren’t sure you can handle. Or you’re dating someone and are nervous about living up to family expectations. Or you’re a parent, and you’re worried that you just don’t have what it takes.

Ironically enough, the way out of our insecurities isn’t found in us. It isn’t even found by resolving our difficulties and answering our questions. It’s found when ..

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As Toni’s boyfriend tossed her things onto the front porch, she felt deep disappointment and embarrassment—she was 32 years old with two children, six months pregnant, and homeless.

She called her friend Nick, who helped her pack her car and found her a place to sleep for the night. The next morning, she met Nick’s friend Valerie, who asked if she could pray for Toni and offered to walk her through the prayer of salvation.

“That prayer changed my life,” Toni shared. “I fought her, and I fought..

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

Articles of the Week

The Evangelical Conscience, Still Uneasy 70 Years Later, Richard Mouw. For evangelicals who have read the book, it seems strange to think that Carl F. H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism was published two generations ago. Sure, we have shed the label of “fundamentalism,” opting instead to call ourselves “evangelical.” But the problems that Henry identified in the 1940s—p..

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In the church I grew up in, “missionary” was a sacred and scary title, bestowed only upon the spiritual elite, the Navy Seals of the Christian world. We considered them heroes, sat in awe through their slideshows, and gladly donated our money to their ministries.

It was years later that I first realized that every Christian was a missionary, that all Christians were called to leverage their lives and talents for the kingdom. God’s calling into mission is not a separate call we receive years aft..

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