Categories: Re: Think

• Re: Think 03-29-09

  After a very very long layoff, this is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday.  I know the blogging around here has been erratic, but like any other discipline it takes time, and in many ways a schedule to get it accomplished.  Hopefully we can begin being more regular around here. The past several weeks we have been digging into the lives of the Patriarchs, paying specific attention to [...]

• Re: Think 01-25-09 (part 2)

  Today we will continue the conversation we began Monday about Sabbath.  While we started by contemplating the practical aspects of Sabbath, today we turn attention to the Spiritual. God intended for Sabbath to be a day of perpetual Spiritual Spring, one of multiplication and fruitfulness.  When God “blessed” the Sabbath day, this means he made it spiritually fruitful.  On Sabbath, the people of Israel were called to celebrate and remember Creation and Salvation.  They were to remember not that earth [...]

• Re: Think 1-25-09

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday. Well people, after a long layoff from the blog world we return.  Seminary is done and hopefully posting can return to some semblance of normality, whatever that resembled before. Yesterday we wrapped up our month long look at the Creation Story by camping out on Sabbath.  We saw that Sabbath rest is an oft overlooked element of life for us, [...]

• Re: Think 12-14-08 (part 2)

  Today we will continue the conversation we began yesterday looking at the stories behind those Paul mentions at the end of his letter to the Colossians.  Yesterday we considered Tychicus and Onesimus and today we turn attention to Mark and Barnabas. The Mark referred to in this letter is the same “John Mark” that defected from Paul and Barnabas during their first missionary journey.  He was source of a quite heated conflict between Paul and Barnabas that lead to their [...]

• Re: Think 12-14-08

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday. Yesterday we wrapped up our four month examination of the book of Colossians.  It has been both an encouraging and convicting journey looking at Paul’s words to a church not very old.  Paul wrote to remind them of who Jesus is and who they are as a result.  He concluded in Colossians 4:7-18 with final greetings that, though easy to [...]

• Re: Think 11-30-08 (part 2)

  This is a continuation of our conversation from yesterday concerning Colossians 4:5-6.  Yesterday we spoke of what the nature of a Transformed Walk looks like and today we turn attention toward Transformed Talk. When I was going to college in Casper, Wy I remember attending a January Bible study at a sister church in our area.  I don’t really recall what the subject was, nor much else of what happened but what I do remember is something that Pastor Gary [...]

• Re: Think 11-30-08 (part 1)

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday.  On Sunday last we continued our examination of who we are as transformed people in light of Christ’s accomplishment on our behalf.  Specifically in Colossians 4:5-6 we saw two more markers of a transformed life; 1) A Transformed Walk; 2) Transformed Talk.  Today we will examine the first, tomorrow the second Walking is a manner of life our “spiritual stride” [...]

• Re Think: 11-23-08

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday. Yesterday we talked about prayer.  While there is surely much that can be said about prayer; infinitely more than can be written in a blog post, here in Colossians 4:2-4 Paul gives us a bit of insight into what the character and direction of transformed prayer are to be. First we see that Prayer is to be Persistant.  Sam Storms [...]

• Re: Think 11-02-08

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday. Last Sunday we looked at Living the True Remedy, or in other words; how is it that we as followers of Christ can begin to live out in real terms our understanding of who Christ is.  In Colossians 3:1-4, Paul begins to explain what this relationship lived out really looks like.  These verses serve as a bridge between how we [...]

• Re: Think 10-19-08

  This is our Sunday Re: Think, an opportunity for us to continue to think on the events of last Sunday. Last Sunday at DCC we saw that sometimes hard words are needed to communicate glorious truth and Paul’s words to the Church in Colosee are no different.  Using the language of circumcision and baptism Paul reminds the believers in Colossians 2:11-15 that they have been buried with Christ in death and raised through faith in Him into a new way [...]