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The First 20% Relative MLB Power Rankings
With most teams having played approximately 32 games, we’re 20% into the 2023 Major League Baseball season. Some has changed since the first 10%. Here are the rankings. The number in parentheses is where they were ranked 10% ago.
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Discipleship and the Church: How are they Related?
Let me work the following statement out with you. What do you think? Discipleship includes – or should include – everything the local church does. Let me begin by defining discipleship as following Jesus. When Jesus calls his disciples to make disciples, I believe he’s calling them to make followers of Jesus, to train them…
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The 1st 10% Relative MLB Power Rankings
MLB.com just released newest power rankings. I’m not usually a power rankings kind of guy, but having watched more baseball in the first 2+ weeks than I have in a long time, I decided to see whether or not I agreed with them. Result: I disagree with virtually every ranking. So I’ve decided to make…
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‘Disciple’ vs. ‘Christian’: Are they the same?
Many in the Church use the words ‘disciple’ and ‘Christian’ interchangeably. There are good reasons for that. Before calling them ‘Christians’ in the book of Acts, Luke called them ‘disciples’. And by all indications, Luke considered the two terms to describe the same people. They were the ones who followed, obeyed, and preached Jesus Christ.…
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Cultivating Curiosity
Parents, have you ever noticed that the opening lines to Curious George books sometimes differ from one another? Most of the books tell us that ‘George was a good little monkey and always very curious’. Again But once we get to George’s experience in the hospital, the descriptioin of George gets a little more complicated:…
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‘Feeding on the Gospel’: A Quick Review of The Prodigal God
There was something about the Parable of the Prodigal Son that always bothered me. I remember one particular men’s breakfast I had with some guys in our church. It must have been when I was around 20 years old or so. We read the parable together. At the end I just wanted to shout, “Yeah,…
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Cities on Hills
“There it is!” my son exclaimed as we rounded the bend. He had been asleep for the last hour of the trip and had suddenly woken up with fresh adrenaline. “I’m not sure, Ian…”, I responded. “The GPS says we still have about an hour before we get there. I’d be surprised if that’s Grožnjan.”…
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Rađati plod u vrijeme pandemije
English version Ljubav. Radost. Mir. Izgovarajte polako kako bi vam pojmovi sjeli. Ljubav. Radost. Mir. Prepoznaju li ljudi u nama ove karakteristike? Opisuju li nas ljudi ovim odlikama? Strpljivost. Ljubaznost. Dobrota. Kako se očituje naše strpljenje? Na koje specifične načine ljudi vide našu dobrotu? Vjernost. Blagost. Uzdržljivost. U člancima na mreži opisuju li nas kao…
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Jeremy Bohall 