Posted Sunday, Mar 04, 2012 Baher Malek
Colin completed the conference weekend with this last session on comtemporary revival.
Our culture has degraded and the church is complicit. There is broad recognition of the need for revival.
Post-War Awakening
The 1930s-1940s were the low point for Christian denominations. ...
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Posted Sunday, Mar 04, 2012 Baher Malek
Colin outlined numerous historical international revival events in Wales, Korea and India.
Then and Now
Europe and America have largely been the "main act" as far as revival goes. Many other stories have not gotten the same degree of attention. Colin mentioned the ...
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Posted Saturday, Mar 03, 2012 Baher Malek
Colin Hansen started this morning with a message emphasizing the importance of unity and cooperation among Christians.
Why is unity so important?
Colin made the point of how difficult it is to explain to unchurched people why there are soooo many denominations (33,000+). ...
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Posted Saturday, Mar 03, 2012 Baher Malek
Colin Hansen started off the THINK|12 weekend with a great talk about what revival looks like and how we go about discerning it.
We live in a show-me society
The air we breath in our society is rooted in the "prove it / show me" mentality that is based in the scientific method. ...
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Posted Monday, Mar 07, 2011 Baher Malek
Starting next Sunday we'll take the next 4-5 weeks to review the THINK|11 messages from Dr. Carson. I'm really excited about it. It will give us an opportunity to discuss our thoughts / ideas coming out of the conference. We'll be meeting in room A13 at 11:20.
Looking forward to ...
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Posted Sunday, Mar 06, 2011 Baher Malek
Dr. Carson first gave us an overview of the various forms of doubt:
doubt from ignorance
doubt from a deep anti-christian position
doubt from sheer fatigue
In this scripture doubt comes from none of these, but from desire to avoid getting duped. Thomas's thoughts went from:
a. ...
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Posted Saturday, Mar 05, 2011 Baher Malek
We serve a God of surprises who will not be domesticated. God is full of surprises. The key surprises relative to this text are:
a. Jesus receives a desperate plea for help and demonstrates his love by delaying (v1-16)
b. Jesus comes up against devastating loss and ...
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Posted Saturday, Mar 05, 2011 Baher Malek
Dr. Carson taught us that this passage is really about the difficulties facing the church. I was impressed with thoughts of how we go about interpreting the book Revelations using much of the Old Testament imagery. It's an imaginative summary of what has happened connected together ...
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Posted Saturday, Mar 05, 2011 Baher Malek
Dr. Carson led us to consider the very foundations our salvation from Romans 3:21-26. A section of scripture that Martin Luther termed "...the center of the whole Bible..." Key question - what is the gospel?
- is it to love God with heart /soul / mind / strength? - is it ...
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Posted Friday, Mar 04, 2011 Baher Malek
I love the theme of irony that Dr. Carson presented tonight. I've often thought that the passion story is loaded with irony upon irony and it was such a joy to watch Dr. Carson unpack these one by one. Irony of Ironies that Jesus:
- the man who is mocked as king is the King ...
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