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“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany” by Jonathan Gibson [Book Review]

Introduction I don’t know about you, but sometimes the most difficult thing for me to focus on during this season of the year is the actual reason for the season. Between children wrapping up school for the semester, fall sports coming to an end, travel to visit family, normal church…

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Wisdom from Prison

One of the lesser-known ministries of Covenant Church is called the “Covenant Pulpit.” Many in our church know that we print the sermon each week and make it available to those who attend. But a lesser-known fact is that we also mail copies of these sermons to prisons across Florida.…

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A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson by Winn Collier

Like many people, I first encountered Eugene Peterson through “The Message”; that tremendous effort to translate the entire Bible into the American vernacular. While I appreciated aspects of that translation (and I certainly appreciate the effort involved), I didn’t personally care much for the experience of reading it. But what…

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Entering Solitude

“Only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, trans. John W. Doberstein, 1st ed. (New York: Harper, 1954), 77–78. In…

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The Blacksmith

(If you’re looking for more Moby Dick answers, check out my post: “All Your Moby Dick Questions Answered!”) Stories of self-destruction abound. I recently told a biblical one in an eight-part sermon series on Samson earlier this year at Covenant Church. But tucked away in one brief little chapter in…

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The Gift of Grace

God’s grace is an undeserved, unmerited gift. It is not something we could ever earn through our own efforts. When we understand the depth of our sin, helplessness and inability to save ourselves, we desperately seek deliverance. We search for protection from the coming storm of God’s wrath against all…