John March

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  • Reading as a Discipline

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    This past week, I preached on training. My main point was that in order to become the people we are called and created to be we have to work at it. We have innate gifting, but that’s not enough. We have to train ourselves through spiritual disciplines and other practices. One discipline I’ve decided to…

  • Christmas 2008

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  • Secret Life of the Saints

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    John preached this sermon at Emmanuel Covenant Church on January 18th, 2009.  The sermon is based on the Bible passage 1 Cor. 9:24-27. [audio:http://www.pilgrimmarch.com/audio/2009-01-18(JohnMarch).mp3] Or, you can download it here: Secret Life of the Saints.

  • Better Bibles, Better People?

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    I just watched a couple of the promotional videos for the recently released ESV Study Bible. Everyone is raving about the book, and it looks to me like a lot of work has gone into this project. There are extensive notes, cross-references, maps, and other resources on almost every page. It is truly and impressive…

  • Undivided Eye Contact

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    Ever since my wife and I saw the movie Baby Mama we’ve joked about the scene in which Steve Martin rewards Tina Fey’s good work with 5 minutes of undivided eye contact. Sometimes when Mary or I need a break from the madness that is parenting our two children, we joke that we need 5…

  • Confidence

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    I spent the afternoon cheering on the Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team to their lopsided victory over Penn St. It was awesome! Apart from a few minutes at the beginning, they dominated throughout the game. There was no point when the Gophers hit a cold spell. There was no point at which Penn St. really…

  • I’m not the first…

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    I’m preparing for the annual Evangelical Covenant Church Midwinter conference. It’s a conference for pastors. They can connect with each other and hopeful be refreshed by the speakers and workshops put on by our denomination. They also run their orientation courses during this time for pastors who didn’t attend North Park Seminary, the denomination’s seminary.…

  • Christmas Card 2008

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    Make a Smilebox scrapbook

  • Hate yourself, Hate others

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    The false ascetic begins by being cruel to everybody because he is cruel to himself. But he ends by being cruel to everybody but himself. Merton, No Man is an Island, pg. 96 Merton highlights the importance of rooting the acts of spiritual disciplines in self-love not self-loathing. It’s easy to allow our frustration with…

  • Great Preaching Articles

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    I recently came across this series of articles by Lori Carrell. She is a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin. These articles are the results of research done for a Lily-endowed Center for Excellence in Congregational Leadership. She did a survey of more than 10,000 sermon listeners and a number of pastors as…