Tag Archives: Jesus

TLP Living: 6/4/18

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Don Merritt

Form or Substance? Once upon a time there was a small church in a small town. To be sure, that church hadn’t always been small, at one time it had been the second largest in the county, back when Taft … Continue reading →

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TLP Inspiration: June 4, 2018

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Don Merritt

  God will provide for our needs; this is something most people know, but some become a little confused by it. The statement does not mean that all we need to do sit on our chairs and wait for Him … Continue reading →

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Sunday Sermon Notes: June 3, 2018

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Don Merritt

Title: Mark Fast Action and the Life of Jesus Text: Mark 1:11 Introduction to Mark The best way I know to introduce this book is to compare it with the other three Gospels. Of course, it is one of the … Continue reading →

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TLP Inspiration: June 2, 2018

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Don Merritt

Faithfulness in the Heartland It’s getting hot here in America’s Heartland. The countryside is a deep green, and so are most of the farm fields I’ve seen; most of the corn is over a foot tall now, a little more … Continue reading →

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Art

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Don Merritt

Many of the greatest artistic Masterpieces of all time have been made to glorify God, and this is true not only in painting and sculpture, but in drama, dance and all other fields of artistic endeavor. Yet as in writing, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Hierarchy and New Testament Thinking

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Don Merritt

Ephesians 5:22-33 There is a definite hierarchy in the Scriptures; there just isn’t any way to get away from this fact. Yet while this is a theological reality, it isn’t always popular today. In the very simplest of terms, here’s … Continue reading →

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Writing

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Don Merritt

If you like to write, if you write a Christian blog, then it is likely that your writing is an expressive spiritual practice. Yet as I mentioned before, there is a difference between a spiritual practice and a hobby, just … Continue reading →

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Song of Songs: A Dilemma

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Don Merritt

The dilemma presented by the Song of Songs has been around for a very long time. That it has been considered to be part of the Scriptures since many centuries before Christ is clear enough, and its controversial aspects since … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Expressive Spiritual Practices

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Don Merritt

We’ve surveyed the most well-known of the Classical Spiritual Practices, but there is much more to be said on the subject of Spiritual Practices because the Classics are not the only ones. There is a whole different category of spiritual … Continue reading →

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Moving Forward…

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Don Merritt

Depending upon whose list you’d like to follow, there are a number of Spiritual Practices that I haven’t written about, and that I really doubt would work well in a blogging format. I’ve already mentioned Secrecy in passing, but there … Continue reading →

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