John on August 25th, 2008

As I promised last week, I’ve got a copy of Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase to give away.  Since this book is all about encouraging us to take risks for God and to go on adventures for His kingdom, I want to hear about an adventure would would like to go on.  Maybe it’s a [...]

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John on August 19th, 2008

Faith Emergence has the honor of being one of the blogs chosen to participate in Mark Batterson’s blog tour to promote his new book, Wild Goose Chase.  This is a follow up book to the Mark Batterson book we just finished reviewing, In a Pit with a Lion.  I just finished reading it yesterday, and [...]

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John on August 4th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
The title of the next chapter in Mark Batterson’s book, In a pit with a Lion, says it all, “Playing [...]

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John on July 22nd, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
What’s on your to-do list today?
Whether you use Outlook Calendars, a Franklin-Covey planner, a piece of scrap paper, or just [...]

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John on July 14th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
I sure hope you don’t have a case of the Mondays today!
If you do, I suppose you could take it [...]

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John on July 8th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
Remember the story of Benaiah?  2 Samuel 23:20-21.
When he was a boy, did Benaiah’s mom tell him not to play [...]

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John on July 1st, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com

Each of us have lions that we face everyday – things/ideas/temptations that threaten to track us down and gobble up [...]

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John on June 24th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.
If you’re wondering where Mark got the title for his book, it’s from the great section of II Samuel where the writer lists all [...]

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John on June 17th, 2008

If you haven’t found the pattern yet, we’ve been discussing a book on Tuesdays. It’s been kind of one sided, mostly because I didn’t actually tell you ahead of time what we’re going to be reading. My bad. I forgot to put my telepathy helmet on…
So…here’s the advanced notice: Beginning [...]

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