Posts Tagged ‘pastor’

Overcoming the Monster: What Story Are You Telling?

In Christopher Booker’s book The Seven Basic Plots, he outlines the fact that every story we tell ourselves as human beings – since the beginning of time, whether around the campfire or in a big budget superhero movie – all fit into seven basic categories: 1 – Overcoming the Monster – The protagonist sets out to defeat an…

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Two Thoughts on Prayer

The other day I was pondering the deep difference between our public and private lives – loving God in public versus loving God just because he is God. A couple of major ideas hit me around the same time. The first was from Charles Spurgeon. He pointed out that Jesus taught his disciples not to…

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