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Chess and Your Brain

A great post from Andy Kerckhoff at Growing Up Well on the mostly-forgotten strengths of the game of chess. I periodically play chess with my oldest son (8 year old) and, after reading this, am encouraged to play more with him. Fascinating read.

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Pastors Are People Too

I know this might sound like a shock to some, but pastors are just like anybody else. Despite what some may think (or how some preachers may portray themselves), the men who stand behind pulpits every Sunday delivering sermons are on the same spiritual level as the congregants who sit in the pews. There are [...]

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Ray Ortlund on “Accepting Jesus”

Ray Ortlund is Lead Pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee.  I met him in Louisville last year at the Acts 29 Network Boot Camp.  His zeal for Christ is unmistakable, and he’s the type of man you would do well to sit under for discipleship if you could make it happen. He recently posted [...]

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Don’t be a Preacher

Don’t be a preacher… …if you are thin-skinned. It’s a given that people will take shots at your sermons, even more so, they will take shots at you. Get tough or get gone. …if you are lazy. Preaching is work. No matter how gifted you are, studying and preparing well should regularly take hours out [...]

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Help for Haitians and Haitian Churches

For those who want to help the churches in Haiti in the wake of the devastation of the earthquake, I submit to you the following organizations. Bright Hope – an organization whose mission is to provide for the physical, economic and spiritual needs of people living at the lowest economic level through personal, empowering, holistic, [...]

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