This Blog is SO OVER. Check out www.coffeewithcarlin.ca instead!

On October 28, 2011 By

I’m not kicking it here anymore.  I’ve got a new place to relax, have a kup of 100% kona blend, and write about the things I care about it.

So, if you found your way here by accident or curiosity, please visit me at:

www.coffeewithcarlin.ca

 

 

 

 

 

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Switching Collars

On March 30, 2011 By

I just switched from clerical collar to blue collar to white collar, all in 4 months. (Speaking figuratively, of course, as I’ve never actually worn a clerical collar.)

It’s time to get the blog up to date with my adolescent amblings.

I want to write this as briefly as possible, (as briefly as [...]

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Changes!

On October 14, 2010 By

Some big changes are coming down in my life, so it’s about time to update you.

I’ve resigned as Lead Pastor at Deer Park Alliance Church and I’m going back to school.

I’m incredibly happy with this decision, though it was an unbelievably emotional decision to make.  I was going to say that it was [...]

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Notes of Encouragement: Greg McCombs

On September 15, 2010 By

Greg and Angela McCombs have been precious friends of Lori-Anne and me since Canadian Bible College days.  Greg and I first really spent time with each other when we spend a year in the Philippines on a campus ministry adventure.  When we came back we both married our brides on the same day, August 1, [...]

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GETTING IT: THE PSALMS: What the? Poetry

On August 18, 2010 By

Ooo, now we’re wading into delightfully foreign territory. Art.

The next three weeks I’m going to briefly describe three pools that must be waded into in order to get the most out of the book of Psalms:  Poetry, Parallelism, and Imagery.  These are not only literary terms, but also artistic terms.  For most of [...]

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GETTING IT: THE PSALMS: Heart of the Psalms: Soul

On August 12, 2010 By

At the heart of the Psalms is the gospel.  The good news of Jesus Christ is central to the content of each of the 150 Psalms in our Bible.  As a worshipper begins to know the Psalms better, that worshipper is getting to know Jesus better, and understand more clearly the relationship that [...]

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Notes of Encouragement: Tremper Longman III

On August 12, 2010 By

Tremper Longman III is currently the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.  Previously he taught Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia for eighteen years.  I got to take a course on the book of Genesis from Tremper several years ago as a spring module through [...]

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Notes of Encouragement: Mark Driscoll

On August 11, 2010 By

Mark Driscoll is Preaching and Theology Pastor, and the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle.  His preaching and teaching originally unlocked for me, in my own preaching, a fresh desire for authenticity and freedom to use humor and speak as a man to men.  His books “Vintage Jesus,” “Death By Love,” [...]

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