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Peter Nelson Photos: Life of Christ
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STOP LOOK. SEE. Monday, April 01, 2013. From Washington Memorial Chapel. In Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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For The Journey: The Startling Good News
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. The Startling Good News. I appreciate Amy Hall's post. At Stan d to Reason about the startling figure of the suffering Messiah: " We forget how entirely unexpected and shocking the humility and servanthood of Jesus is—how foreign it is to human expectations of God, and in this case, to Muslim expectations.". Posted by Peter K. Nelson.
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For The Journey: Getting Beneath the Bruhaha
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Monday, March 30, 2015. Getting Beneath the Bruhaha. The recent rush to judgment against evangelical Christians for all the intolerance and discrimination they will now supposedly practice in light of Indiana's recently passed RFRA makes the words of NY Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof. Update 4-10-2015: I appreciated follow-up articles in NYT. Fear of the Lord.
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For The Journey: Discontented Contentment
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Tuesday, September 02, 2014. This summer has been a season of wrestling to find the wise and healthy “place” the Lord has for me—and for all his children—somewhere between chronic restlessness and sinful complacency. On the one hand. Jesus offers us “rest”: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. We ought to “be still” (Ps ...Yes, God ...
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For The Journey: Twenty-Two Years Like a Day
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Friday, April 10, 2015. Twenty-Two Years Like a Day. But so very much more pressing and profound and (in fact) hope-awakening are the deep things of Jesus' love and his sovereign goodness through the storms and all the way home to heaven. My soul is helped ever so much more by the testimony of Greg Lucas. And the witness of Kara Tippetts. And of Elliott Orr.
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For The Journey: The Sad Situation of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. The Sad Situation of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. The release of "Fifty Shades of Grey" in theaters the day before Valentine's Day sends a disturbing message about love. But sad, and grieved. Here are a few thoughtful comments about "Fifty Shades":. 50 Shades of Grey speaks to where things are headed in our culture. We. Should not expect that p...
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For The Journey: Joy to the World!
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Joy to the World! Joy to the World. Isaac Watts, 1719). Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King;. Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing,. And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing. This song oozes with joyful praise rooted in Psalm 98. But what is “joy”? Here we harken b...
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For The Journey: Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015)
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Monday, June 15, 2015. So thankful for the clear, bold, wise, courageous discipleship of Elisabeth Elliot. See the many tributes that have appeared today, e.g., from John Piper. Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fear of the Lord. Ever Forming, Never Formed. My book on the life of spiritual formation in Christ. Trinity College, Bristol, UK.
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For The Journey: Half-Truth and Happiness
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A collection of thoughts, questions, and challenges for the journey of spiritual life with Jesus Christ. * * * Posted by Peter K. Nelson. Thursday, September 18, 2014. I thank God for revealing his truth to humanity—for sending Jesus, who is the truth (John 14:6); for his written revelation: “Your word is truth” (John 17:17). The Scriptures give light to show the way in a dark world (Psalm 119:105). How we need God’s truth! Good works without clarifying that we are saved unto. What’s more, everyth...
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