Saturday, 27 April 2024

J D Greear

J.D. Greear | Pastor, Author, Theologian

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http://www.jdgreear.com/

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The church I grew up in wasn’t perfect, but I will say this for them: they wanted everyone there to know the Bible. I memorized dozens of verses as a kid. We did Bible drills. We would fill out cards every week, letting the pastor know if we had read our Bible or not. And if our church programs (of which there were many) weren’t about evangelism, chances are they were focused on knowing the Bible better.

The older I get, the more I look back and appreciate the passion that church had for the Bi..

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I once heard a Christian leader say, “Better to spend one hour on your knees pursuing the Holy Spirit than ten hours studying the Bible.” Tweetable, maybe, but very wrong. We must never separate what God has inseparably joined. Better to spend one hour on your knees pursuing the Holy Spirit through the Bible. Scripture invites you into a relationship that involves both Word and Spirit. Each is indispensable.

Every word of Scripture is a revealed Word of God, but God desires more than for us to ..

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Divorce affects a lot of people in our community. Many people in the church have been through it themselves. Some are in the midst of divorce right now. And many people know about divorce from a different angle, growing up with two homes—one for mommy, and one for daddy.

As a pastor, one of the questions I get more than any other is this: “Is it okay to divorce? To remarry? If so, when?” Sadly, many Christians talk about divorce as if it’s the unforgivable sin, the one line in life that once yo..

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As rallying political speeches go, Joshua’s farewell speech in Joshua 24 has got to be one of the most anti-climactic ever. After leading the people of God from one victory to another, he ends the book with these words:

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt [Wait…why did they still have them?], and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom ..

Trump or No-Trump, Making Gay Friends, & How to Lose Your Ministry

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Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web.

Book Review of the Week

Making Gay Friends Post-Orlando, Sam Allberry. This is a helpful review of Brad Hambrick’s Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends. Even if we get the question of sexuality right, we may be missing the heart of Christ if this simply becomes an issue for us. Gay people aren’t simply a demographic; they are people, and God has call..

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Plumb lines are a series of short, pithy statements that we, at the Summit, use as rallying points—both for our staff and for the entire church. They are a way to encapsulate our ministry philosophy in short, memorable phrases.

Plumb Line #6 at the Summit is: “Live sufficiently, give extravagantly.”

Certain topics in Scripture aren’t questions to be solved so much as they’re tensions to be balanced. Our approach to money falls into that category. We know, on one hand, that God gives us richly ..

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This guest post comes from one of our Summit members, Sarah Short, inspired by a recent message on Psalm 73.

Have you ever known someone who seemingly has it all but grumbles and complains through life? Maybe they have money, fame, good health, and success and yet, they’re never really content?

On the contrary – have you ever known someone, either up close or through reading or watching their story unfold, go through a season (or an entire life) of suffering – and do so with this intangible, c..

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Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web.

Video of the Week

Heroes and Villains: Is Hip Hop a Cancer or a Cure? Lecrae. There are some downright phenomenal lines in this short TED Talk. For instance, “Western society tends to change narratives for the sake of pride—or prostitute tales of murder and misogyny for the sake of entertainment.” Lecrae takes a look at a controversial art form—hip hop—and shows us that while hip hop ofte..

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Plumb lines are a series of short, pithy statements that we, at the Summit, use as rallying points—both for our staff and for the entire church. They are a way to encapsulate our ministry philosophy in short, memorable phrases.

Plumb Line #1 at the Summit is: “The gospel is not just the diving board; it’s the pool.”

Christianity teaches something fundamentally different than every other religion. Every other religion says that if you change, you will be accepted. But Christianity says, “Becaus..

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If you ask Christians for their favorite book of the Bible, hardly anyone is going to answer, “Leviticus.” (I do know one guy at our church who loved Leviticus—he called it “The Book of Enchantment,” though we could never figure out why—but he was probably the only one.) The book of Leviticus can seem downright strange to us. It’s got a lot of odd rules that don’t always make sense. It’s often tough to get through: more Bible Reading Plans have shipwrecked on the shoals of Leviticus than perhaps..

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