December 24, 2008
We as humans are wired to be concerned about origins. Scientists who are not content with the Bible’s word on origins have spent billions of dollars trying to figure out where we as humans come from. Films such as the Jason Bourne movies or X-Men have characters consumed with discovering who they really are by [...]
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December 21, 2008
Without going into long details, I recently had the privilege of interacting over e-mail with the editor of a magazine for movie screenwriters. I thought I would share a question he had along with the answer I plan to give. I hope the meditations on the gruesomeness of Christ’s death fill out our experience of [...]
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December 14, 2008
I want to use this space to highlight a few significant things going on at Whitton Avenue Bible Church, along with the other important announcements contained in this weekly e-mail: Eldership On Wednesday evening the elders, after much praying, seeking guidance from others, and sitting down with various brothers, presented Don Vander Giessen as an [...]
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December 7, 2008
It is not extreme to assert that 2009 will be a year of great uncertainty. This morning’s news claims that more jobs were lost last month than any month since December 1974. We are feeling this in our own congregation. The stock market is not far from being half of what it was this time [...]
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