Jason

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The spiritual discipline of rest

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We're all comfortable with spiritual disciplines like prayer, fellowship, and Scripture reading. But rest? This afternoon I faced a decision. Usually this only happens in hypothetical situations, but today it was real life. You see, I'm at a stage in my life where I am once again very busy. I have the care of managing two businesses and overseeing dozens of employees. Add a regular preaching schedule and ministry opportunities on top of that, and

Questions about music…

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Music, being perhaps one of the most controversial issues in Christianity today, brings up a lot of questions. Many of them deserve to be answered personally and honestly. Is bigger, louder, more majestic... better? When I listen to sacred music throughout the week, am I using it for entertainment? If I like it, does that mean I should listen to it? If I like it, does that mean I shouldn't listen to it? If I

On Sharper Iron

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It's kind of hard to express the things I felt as I read Jason Janz' article yesterday morning announcing that he is moving on and passing the leadership of SI to Aaron Blumer. Though I don't know Jason personally, I do feel a sense of comraderie with him because of the similarity of what he has done to what we are doing here at GMT and InFocus. The other thing I felt was a profound

Six reasons pastors should blog

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I'll admit it's not my title, but it sure is a good title. It's actually Abraham Piper's title and he wrote the article which you can read here. And I encourage you to do so, but if you can't, I'll give a very brief summary because this is something that I'm pretty passionate about. I think Australian pastors need to blog. I understand that not every pastor can or should blog. I understand that there