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Psalm 91:7-16
A thousand may fall at your side
ten thousand at your right hand
but it will not come near you.
You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place-
the Most High, who is my refuge-
no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble
I will rescue him and honor him
With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.
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CCPASTORS17 THOUGHTS
Keeping it short and to the point:
First Session with Brian Brodersen was a great kickoff to what we were expecting with our theme: SALT & LIGHT.
“We are at a hingepoint in history concerning the church.”
“Jesus was unpredictable, and by the Holy Spirit, prophetically, we are called to be unpredictable.”
MY THOUGHTS:
The world holds a broad expectation of what christianity looks like, and it is well below the authentic work of Jesus in our lives. I want to serve and live in a way that is both unpredictable to the world, and explicitly biblical, that evidences my citizenship to heaven above all else.
Second Session with Chet Lowe was great, but I didn’t take notes. I simply wanted to receive. Simple encouragement to keep pressing on.
Third Session with Greg Opean was clear and honest about our desperate need for unity in our present spiritual climate. Testimonies from his work in Hungary were greatly encouraging.
“Uniformity is heresy.”
MY THOUGHTS:
Uniformity and tribal alliances would have killed our church plant in Bristol, England before it even began. When we are engaging in a culture that is so adamantly against the Gospel, partnerships with ministries that agree with the Gospel but may disagree with the smaller details of Christian life should be embraced not rejected for the furtherance of God’s Good News in our cities.
Fourth Session with Richard Cimino was a great balance of cultural engagement while being keenly aware of our need for holiness.
MY THOUGHTS:
When we disregard holiness we actually LOSE our cultural relevance. Our holiness in Christ is what stands us apart from the culture, and like Russell Moore says, our weirdness will ultimately make us look so different that we present an attractiveness and beauty which will bring people to ask questions and seek Jesus.
The fifth Session with Efrem Buckle was honestly heart-wrenching in the best way. Just his voice uprooted deep-seated love and heartbreak for the U.K. His word was timely and effective. Thoughts on Ruth were convicting.
Honestly, it was my favorite message of the conference.
"Our salty and illuminative integrity is directly related to how we treat and care for the outcasts of our communities.”
“The poor, captives, and the oppressed were the ones Jesus sought out. THE POOR: socially poor, culturally poor, women and children, AND THOSE WHO HAVE MADE POOR LIFE CHOICES: Villians”
MY THOUGHTS:
Obvious conviction of apathy in my life. Personally, I don’t actively seek out the poor and marginalized in my community. I help in the temporary but not in the eternal. Relationship and investment is needed.
Q&A on Theology: Honestly I expected/wanted more from this. I was so intrigued by Breshear’s paradigms: Honor/Shame, Fame/Shame, Clean/Defiled, Belong/Lost, Order/Chaos, Hope/Despair. I would have loved to hear more.
MY THOUGHTS:
I wish there was a greater unfolding of looking at how we can learn from other cultures concerning the Gospel other than our present western worldview.
Maybe more akin to Tennent’s Theology in the Context of World Christianity.
Sixth Session with Paul Tripp was great, heavy truths that demand honest personal evaluation. Very akin to his book Dangerous Calling.
Wednesday was when (for a while) our hearts shattered. Hannah and I were driving to the church, excited to hear Dr. Gerry Breshears, when we got a phone call telling us our dear friend Mike Neglia was hit by a car going 45 mph. We rushed to the hospital. We interceded on Mike’s behalf. We witnessed to others in the waiting room. We cried and cried. We laughed and laughed. We saw the beauty of the Lord’s faithfulness in keeping Mike alive and healing him from damage that should have killed him, and we continued to wait for the Lord to harbor Mike from continued pain and suffering.
Mike has been a missionary in Ireland for over a decade, which makes him poor in finances, but rich in God’s faithfulness to him.
We saw that this week too. We started a gofundme page and we raised over $20,000 in less that 24 hours to help him with his medical expenses.
You can contribute HERE
In the down time of ministry at home I will be going back to listen to the audios I missed, and hopefully write my thoughts down on the remaining sessions.
CLOSING THOUGHTS:
I have intentionally stayed away from commenting on how this is the first CGN pastor’s conference, in any way to segregate what the Lord is doing in the CC movement as a whole. This conference was deeply encouraging. To see those with great wisdom speaking inside AND OUTSIDE the CC movement gives me such a propelling excitement for personal ministry here at home and worldwide ministry together in the future.
Every year these conferences bless and convict me in new ways, and that alone is confidence in that:
we are not stagnating into uniformity, but encouraging unpredictablity. We are engaging culture, without giving up holiness. We are called once again to love outcasts, and disciple believers to change the world for Jesus, beginning in our community now. That to me is being Salt & Light.
Simply put, I am just excited what Jesus is going to do through Calvary Chapel, and I haven’t felt that way in a long time.
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“…though high, I covet to ascend…”
John Bunyan | Pilgrim’s Progress
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Pilgrim’s Destination
If you are indeed asking the way to Zion with your face thitherward, I bid you good speed. Behold an open door is set before you, which no one can shut. Yet prepare to endure hardship, for the way lies through many tribulations. There are hills and valleys to be passed, lions and dragons to be met with, but the Lord of the hill will guide and guard his people. ‘Put on the whole armor of God, fight the good fight of faith.’ Beware the Flatterer, Beware the Enchanted Ground. See the Land of Beulah, yea, the city of Jerusalem itself is before you:
There Jesus the forerunner waits.
To welcome travelers home.
- John Newton
Newton’s Preface to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
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By this scripture I was made to see that if ever I would suffer rightly, I must first pass a sentence of death upon every thing that can be properly called a thing of this life, even to reckon myself, my wife, my children, my health, my enjoyment, and all, as dead to me, and myself as dead to them. The second was as Paul said in another place; the way not to faint, is to look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
John Bunyan, autobiography
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Something in these songs just stir some ancient blood in me.
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A boxing match on board the USS Oregon, 1897
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Sincerity to God’s Call without obedience is cowardice.
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Wrestling Jacob - Charles Wesley
Come, O thou Traveler unknown,
Whom still I hold, but cannot see!
My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with Thee;
With Thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
I need not tell Thee who I am,
My misery and sin declare;
Thyself hast called me by my name,
Look on Thy hands, and read it there;
But who, I ask Thee, who art Thou?
Tell me Thy name, and tell me now.
In vain Thou strugglest to get free,
I never will unloose my hold!
Art Thou the Man that died for me?
The secret of Thy love unfold;
Wrestling, I will not let Thee go,
Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
Wilt Thou not yet to me reveal
Thy new, unutterable Name?
Tell me, I still beseech Thee, tell;
To know it now resolved I am;
Wrestling, I will not let Thee go,
Till I Thy Name, Thy nature know.
’Tis all in vain to hold Thy tongue
Or touch the hollow of my thigh;
Though every sinew be unstrung,
Out of my arms Thou shalt not fly;
Wrestling I will not let Thee go
Till I Thy name, Thy nature know.
What though my shrinking flesh complain,
And murmur to contend so long?
I rise superior to my pain,
When I am weak, then I am strong
And when my all of strength shall fail,
I shall with the God-man prevail.
My strength is gone, my nature dies,
I sink beneath Thy weighty hand,
Faint to revive, and fall to rise;
I fall, and yet by faith I stand;
I stand and will not let Thee go
Till I Thy Name, Thy nature know.
Yield to me now, for I am weak,
But confident in self-despair;
Speak to my heart, in blessings speak,
Be conquered by my instant prayer;
Speak, or Thou never hence shalt move,
And tell me if Thy Name is Love.
’Tis Love! ’tis Love! Thou diedst for me!
I hear Thy whisper in my heart;
The morning breaks, the shadows flee,
Pure, universal love Thou art;
To me, to all, Thy bowels move;
Thy nature and Thy Name is Love.
My prayer hath power with God; the grace
Unspeakable I now receive;
Through faith I see Thee face to face,
I see Thee face to face, and live!
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and Thy Name is Love.
I know Thee, Savior, who Thou art.
Jesus, the feeble sinner’s friend;
Nor wilt Thou with the night depart.
But stay and love me to the end,
Thy mercies never shall remove;
Thy nature and Thy Name is Love.
The Sun of righteousness on me
Hath rose with healing in His wings,
Withered my nature’s strength; from Thee
My soul its life and succor brings;
My help is all laid up above;
Thy nature and Thy Name is Love.
Contented now upon my thigh
I halt, till life’s short journey end;
All helplessness, all weakness I
On Thee alone for strength depend;
Nor have I power from Thee to move:
Thy nature, and Thy name is Love.
Lame as I am, I take the prey,
Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o’ercome;
I leap for joy, pursue my way,
And as a bounding hart fly home,
Through all eternity to prove
Thy nature and Thy Name is Love.
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Wife finally convinced me to try pinterest. So far I only use it for Mike Mignola prints and church history infographics.
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Trying the lemongrass method for capturing this swarm.
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J.I. Packer’s Definition of Evangelicalism
“The religion of trinitarian bible-believers who glory in Christ’s Cross as the only source of peace with God and seek to share their faith with others.”
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Camping at San Simeon for three days. Sunburnt, tired, and revitalized.
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