Is Our Discipleship in the Right Order?
Keeping the Horse and the Cart in the Right Place Discipleship: … How would you define it? Do you think most Church folks would know how...
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by Pastor Ben Francis
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Ben Francis
- Mar 13, 2022
- 7 min
The Evangelical Industrial Complex and the Fall of Discipleship.
What Happened to Discipleship? The Evangelical Industrial Complex — “Big Eva” - Big Evangelicalism. If someone were to ask you, “What is...
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Ben Francis
- Mar 1, 2022
- 12 min
Should Christians Read the Left Behind book Series?
This will be a longer post, but I want to be thorough and offer some helpful material as I interact with Dispensational teaching. If you...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 27, 2022
- 7 min
Fast Discipleship is Not always Good Discipleship
More reflections from Wendell Berry We live in a microwave economy. You know what I mean — we live in an economy where we can have pretty...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 26, 2022
- 5 min
Farming for Healthy Families.
Discipleship is Household Work. A Mountain Morning. I greatly enjoy the writings of Wendell Berry, particularly his essays on farming,...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 17, 2022
- 5 min
How does Discipleship Happen?
I hear the question a lot. “I want to grow in my faith. I want to know the Bible better. I want to pray better. I want to be a better...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 15, 2022
- 6 min
The Slow Trod of Christian Discipleship
“The Christian life is a long obedience in the same direction.” -Eugene Peterson I can recall many people that have come in and out of...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 9, 2022
- 8 min
Is Your Marriage Romantic?
A Romantic Marriage Do you have a romantic marriage? Do you desire a romantic marriage? What does that mean? What ideas come to mind when...
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Ben Francis
- Feb 8, 2022
- 5 min
Do I Really Need Theology?
The Spiritual Discipline of doing Theology Well I’ve heard it said before that the average church-goer is not interested in theology....
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Ben Francis
- Feb 3, 2022
- 5 min
What is the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
A Good News Message The Gospel is the good news that the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ, has come in human form, lived a sinless life,...
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Ben Francis
- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
A Tragedy of Silence: Why the United States Ought not Participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
With the 2022 Winter Olympics set to begin in China in just a few days time, there is a deafening silence about one of the worst of human...
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Ben Francis
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
An Old Word for a New Year
Listen to Moses’ words from Psalm 90:11-12 “Who considers the power of Your anger [O Lord], and Your wrath according to the fear of You?...
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Ben Francis
- Dec 31, 2021
- 5 min
Should Christians Care About Physical Health?
The Western world in which I live is torn between two opposing realities: One reality is the overwhelming abundance of food. Food is...
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Ben Francis
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Year of Health
This past fall, I wrote a post outlining my struggles with food. You can read it here in case you missed it. A new year always brings...
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Ben Francis
- Nov 18, 2021
- 5 min
The False Promises of Vacation…
Let’s go camping! It sounded like a great idea. It always sounds like a great idea when we’re several months away from the event. It was...
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Ben Francis
- Nov 8, 2021
- 5 min
Do My Facebook Posts Matter?
Civility as Gospel Witness “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love...
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Ben Francis
- Nov 2, 2021
- 6 min
My Struggles with Food…
A personal journey of stewardship. We all have personal struggles that plague us. Often, it's multiple things that plague us. For me, one...
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Ben Francis
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Which Bible Translation Should I Use?
In this post, I want to briefly discuss some of the various English Bible translations available to us today, the differences between...
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Ben Francis
- Sep 23, 2021
- 5 min
On Being Broken…
There are two contradictory realities that exist in our lives, and in the lives of most everyone we know. Reality #1: I am a broken and...
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Ben Francis
- Sep 7, 2021
- 6 min
What If We Took it Seriously?
It's an interesting question. It implies that we might not take “it” seriously. And we could fit a lot of things into the category of...
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