Posted on August 27, 2008 by brianrmahon
Galatians 1:6-9 has been a treasure trove for me over the last week and yet I feel as if there is much more to refine and be refined by. It is my anticipation that even in writing this journal entry that God would be pleased to run me through the laver of these Gospel verses. [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2008 by brianrmahon
In honor of some of my friends (Barley and J.P. Harmon, etc.) I am going to include on this blog a post that will only occur once every year. It is one week from the kickoff of another college football season. Anyone who has read this blog who doesn’t know me too well should know [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008 by brianrmahon
Communion with God is an immeasurable grace. However, there must be a means of measuring its immediate effects. These effects are inwardly known, loved, and embraced. The activity of them, however, remains to be seen, practiced, and applied to the lives of others. For example, I spent a morning and a significant portion of the [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by brianrmahon
Due to this semester’s workload my blogging will be rather inconsistent. However, I am taking a class on personal and spiritual disciplines that requires me to write a journal throughout the semester as a way to measure my practice of these disciplines. This journal will consist of 9 pairs (18 total) entries on Life and [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by brianrmahon
This may take some explanation, but I have recently thought that the doctrine and experience of justification by faith alone in Christ alone might just be the key to the selling of our house (?). Let me say here that I absolutely repudiate the prosperity Gospel, – it is the acid reflux of American Christianity. [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by brianrmahon
I will be writing part 7 of The Sinfulness of the Sin of Silence soon, but this moving to seminary thing is proving to be quite the handful. But it has been a gracious experience, and one that I am excited to undergo by the grace and mercy of our God.
Jenny and I have moved [...]
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Posted on August 2, 2008 by brianrmahon
I would like to add an appendix of sorts to the writings so far in this series. I do not want to give the impression that we must be uncontrollably (and annoyingly) vocal at all times. The Bible is quite clear that there are times to be silent. Job certainly should have been silent concerning [...]
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