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The Top 10 Posts for March 2012 | The Daily Disciple — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:31:06 +0000

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Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:52:11 +0000

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By: David Murray

David Murray — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:23:36 +0000

Love that: ” Perceived virtue enhances any endeavor and is the only quality that will give it lasting value and permanence”

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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:58:27 +0000

[...] her. It’s his reaction that touches your heart more deeply than any note that he sings. David Murray has some good thoughts about spiritual applications which can be drawn from this. Share this:Like [...]

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Sparks for Thursday, March 29, 2012 | The Daily Disciple — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:52:33 +0000

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By: Bob Schilling

Bob Schilling — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:55:11 +0000

Well said David. The mixture of multi-faceted experience brings more out of the soul. And as each of our experiences are as different as our DNA, our fingerprints and our unique gifts and talents – so God shapes each of us for peculiar usefulness. Bryan Chapell items that three elements make for a persuasive message: “logos (content), pathos (passion) and ethos (character)” (“Christ-Centered Preaching, 34). So the man of God needs to study and prayerfully labor hard to gather his content (and lots of skill and gift go into packaging that) and then you see how our suffering and trials particularly have molded our passion and our character. The uniqueness with preaching is that though the sincere passion/fervor/emotive features of a message (Chapell’s language) are crucial (and too often absent in the pulpit even when there is excellent content), the pulpit takes us to a necessary place far beyond the requisites for effectiveness in the world – as Chapell later notes while evaluating the many homiletical models: “The most powerful means of addressing the mind and the heart remains the ‘ethos’ of the preacher” (pg. 171). Deep conviction with solid truth – excellent; combined with a holy life – eminently useful for the purposes God calls him to. Let our trials have their perfecting/maturing work – to make us empathetic and passionate, but especially to make us faithful and Christlike. Reality is, as the story you point to also illustrates, perceived virtue enhances any endeavor and is the only quality that will give it lasting value and permanence. Great piece, a thought fueler.