Big Idea: In 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, I believe Paul is addressing a specific issue in the ancient Corinthian church. Women were coming to worship gatherings without their head coverings, which, in that society, were the culturally understood symbols of respectability and chastity. Women who went into public without head coverings were associated with sexual immorality […]
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Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans 1:24-25) [More notes from Counterfeit Gods, by Tim
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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke 10:27). I’m slowly reading Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods, and I want to share some of his insights with you. Part of our calling as
This post is for my fellow Dulin’s Grovers. I wanted to share some things I’ve been praying through, and ask you to pray with me. We’re cruising through those tough summer months as a church when so many (including me!) are traveling. Several of our House to House groups have taken a break, and Sunday
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Church is a lantern; camp is a flashlight. God shines the light of his glory through local church ministry continuously (2 Corinthians 4:6). He shines through camp ministry in focused, concentrated beams. Campers cannot get all the photons of church ministry at camp, but what they do get is powerful because of its intensity. Beams
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The following quote may be helpful in understanding the steadfast love of the Father and applying it in our families. This comes from The Father You’ve Always Wanted, by Ed Tandy McGlasson (pp. 26-29): Many of us have grown up as spiritual orphans, never knowing the delight that our loving heavenly Father feels toward us. How
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