Month: February 2012
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Earth’s Year is 365.2422 Making Today Leap Year Day Since Creation
So today is Leap Year Day, caused by the fact that it takes the Earth 365.2422 days to rotate around the sun, not 365 days of the Gregorian Calendar we use today. There have been a bunch of different people and organizations all over the world that have attempted to created the perfect calendar (Changing…
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Martin Luther’s Table Talk on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
A good bit of seminary work is reading the classics from Calvin and Luther going back all the way to Augustine. There is a good reason, they have a huge amount of collective knowledge we can all still learn from today and apply to our own ministry. Table Talk is the classic text written by…
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Ash Wednesday Breaking Routines with a Lenten Reader
It’s already that time of year, Lent is here. Today is Ash Wednesday (see also history), marking the beginning of the season of Lent, which then takes us to the Passion and into Easter. There are many things our church does that I really like and producing a Lenten Reader for the past few years…
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A Review and Critique of The Four Views on Hell
I just finished off another book. Every time I’m able to finish a book I think it’s a really amazing thing to me, still. Below is part of a review I did on this particular book called The Four Views on Hell (Amazon). Even though I had to read the book for a seminary class…
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No two are ever the same, just amazing #sunset (Taken with instagram) (Source: http://instagr.am/p/HC2lOTs1pK/)
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The Priority of the Church isn’t the Alter Call
Over the last several years I have been asked to answer, from many different perspectives, “What is the purpose/priority of the church” and “What makes a true disciple?” (this post is the first question). Most of the time the answer to this question comes from what our culture says, and not from what Scripture says,…
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Caged… while waiting for my dinner (Taken with Instagram at Johnny Brusco’s New York Style Pizza) (Source: http://instagr.am/p/GzUwk9M1hV/)
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The Management and Passage of Time Measured in Breaths
I was tasked months ago at work with completing a plan of how I spend my time, and visioning for the future. It has taken me a while to do this, and I’m still not totally done, but I finished a section of it this week. Typically I have never really been the best at…
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Won’t be much longer before we have leaves in this sunset! (Taken with instagram) (Source: http://instagr.am/p/Gw20TZM1hF/)
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The Start of a New Multisite Church in Auburn Launches
This past Sunday was an incredible day in the life of Cornerstone Church here in Auburn. This was the first Sunday we started worship in two different locations; one church, in two locations. After 9 months of planning, months of praying for all aspects involved in having two sites, we finally had our first regular…
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I can smell the steak, I just can’t get to it lol (Taken with Instagram at LongHorn Steakhouse) (Source: http://instagr.am/p/no-sQ/)
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It’s what’s for dinner, yumm (Taken with instagram) (Source: http://instagr.am/p/nS79Y/)
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The Necessity of Prayer by E.M. Bounds Book Review
Below is a short review of a book I just finished called The Necessity of Prayer by E.M. Bounds. It can be read for free here, or on Amazon over here, or even on audiobook over here. If you want the real real short version then pick up this book and read it, it is…
Scott Fillmer 