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Just giving a little help to promote GoingToSeminary.Com
I have a couple of blogs I’ve been frequenting in preparation for seminary. Here they are…
This is a cool site about going to seminary.
And this one too.
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I got an e-mail from my friend Chris Barrett today he manages Rock the Sound Concerts and he let me know that my old church St. Paul’s Church in Brookfield, CT is sponsoring a concert for my wife and I’s favorite Christmas album, Behold the Lamb by Andrew Peterson. So awesome is this music that we listen to it all year, but…it’s especially a blessing at Christmas. Seeing that our stable Christmas event that we participate in Musicon’s Handel’s Messiah is not happening this year…this will be a welcome treat.
Here is the event info…
St. Paul’s Church in Brookfield is sponsoring a concert called Behold the Lamb: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ on 12/8 at New Milford High. It will feature Andrew Peterson, Bebo Norman, Sara Grives, Jill Phillips, and many more. Frankly, this is the best distillation of the Bible in music I have ever heard. I know many churches do their own Christmas programs, but this has blessed me so much and really helps me focus on Christ. Tix are on sale at www.RTSTickets.com, MorningStar Bookstore, St. Paul’s and iTickets.com. Great gift and for those of us busy with ministry, a great reminder of why we do it and more so whom we do it for.
And here is a documentary found on YouTube about this album…GREAT STUFF!!
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So, I thought I just share that one of my students has been calling me Pastor J. I really don’t know why he does, he says I look like a Priest. I love it though. I joke back with him, and tell him I pray for him. (Even though I really do and I’m not really joking most of the time). When he swears at me or something (which is mostly impulsive) I ask him why he’s swearing at a Priest. However, the result has been really cool. I can tell he’s really connecting with me more, and he’s always happy to see me these days. I just thought I’d share.
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“It starts deep inside us with the awareness that we need help, that we
need saving, that we need rescuing. Then he begins to show us step by
step what it looks like to put flesh and blood on this gospel because
WE ALL fall short, and that’s the beautiful part. Broken, flawed,
vulnerable people like you and me are invited to be the hands and feet
of a Jesus who loves exactly as we are, and yet loves us WAY TO MUCH to
let us stay that way.”
Rob Bell, Nooma Video “You” coming out this month.
