August 2010
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Pride with Spiritual Gifts
How do you deal with issues of pride over your spiritual gifts, and obsession with good things that God has given? The answer is this: A good look at the temporal nature of those things and the glorious eternal future the gospel promises in Christ Jesus. This is what is happening in 1 Corinthians 13.
Christ is the giver of gifts and is Love
Examine the first 8 verses of the chapter. Paul...
March 2010
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How to shop for an audio interface
Audio interfaces necessary components for a modern studio and mobile laptop based rigs. For those who don’t know, audio interfaces are basically soundcards that are external and connect to the computer via usb or firewire. They come in many shapes and sizes- control boards, rack mounts, portable boxes- there are so many options these days, and it can sometimes seem confusing on which to...
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Reason vs Massive
Picking which software to use can be a grueling process of fooling around with demos and reading endless reviews and message board discussions. Everyone looks to different pieces of software for different reasons and that influences what they’d advise- or wouldn’t advise- for you. In my comparison, I am addressing Reason as a sound source vs Massive as a sound source. I use both...
January 2010
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December 2009
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High overhead and the church
Money, Money, Money!
I was reading an article by a popular pastor and church that said they needed almost 1 million dollars to finish out the year not being in the red. They said that donations were down that month and there needed to cover deficits. Now, a flurry of ideas popped into my mind, but the one that I think was most founded and best to share was how prosperous times can often...
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Finding our fill in Christ
I have been meditating on Luke 6:20-26, commonly known as the beatitudes. I’m tempted to go into a full blown dissertation of the passage, but I will treat it more like a summary. Let’s look at the verses:
20 Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “ Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God. 21Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be...
November 2009
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Do I need to be like them to witness to them?
I’ve been in many discussions where the topic came up about relating to people that we witness to. Do I have to be like the people that I am witnessing to in order to witness to them? Is that a pre-requisite for successful evangelism?
When we look at the life of Paul, we see a man who is Jewish going into a wide variety of countries and cultures on his missionary journeys. Paul was a...
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Christian music: The family in crisis
2009 has been a “shocking” year for Christian hip-hop. The genre has seen two of it’s very prominent artists- who are more like urban missionaries with leading roles in their local assembly- fall victim to moral indiscretions in their marriages and publicly brought to public discipline. My blog is not to focus on them exclusively, neither is it to debate whether there should...