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burn4Him Mar 15, 2006

Hello, I am a 30-year old lifelong believer and father to a young family, recently awakened to my nonchalance as a soldier of Christ. We currently live in an intentional community in rural Illinois. It is a Mennonite Church, although we have chosen not to formally affiliate ourselves with this or any denomination.My wife and I continue to long for church as an intentional community, practicing a nurturing life together and a "set apartness" that is not typical in our American culture. This is partly a stewardship issue, and it's clear to us that caring for people requires caring for the earth that God provided to sustain those people. Legal and rationally justifiable greed (even from those who claim Christ) fuels war, poverty and degradation around the world. However, I have recently been reminded that "my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness". And to rightly understand that blood and righteousness we must embrace and imbibe the whole Word of God, including those parts that contradict our cultural sense of love and justice. As Reidhead states in Ten Shekels, human blessing is "a byproduct, not a prime product" of God's will.Although we haven't taken the Mennonite label, I've found a lot of resonance with conservative and evangelical Anabaptists. While perusing some such sites last December, I noticed a lot of Tozer references. Unfamiliar with him, I googled to sermonindex and after after 2 months of digestion here I am.I just have to share the wealth. Downloads and podcasting are great, but I find that you can't beat having a well-indexed spiritual library handed to you on a silver platter.So I've put some effort into collecting SI content onto MP3 discs, bundled with printable disc labels and case inserts. In Windows PCs they autorun a playback menu, Bible program and duplication tools, using a collection of freeware. MP3 sampling/naming and software are all chosen for maximum disc player and PC compatability. See sermondisc.net for details. The discs are designed to be copied and given to friends and neighbors.Does anyone want to help? I have no self-promotional or money-making interest; if a faithful brother with the technical means wants to take over the whole gig, I would yield and eagerly await his output.

sermonindex Mar 15, 2006

Hi friend, Very Nice Intro.I like that "on a silver platter" part.Amen, the feeling is mutual.What a ministry you've made out of your CDs. That is so awesome, to make a Ministry out of a good Ministry. I wish I had a CD burner, because you've just wet my appetite for something that to do.I give out this site to everyone I know that has a computer, but for those who don't it's a bit rough, cuz I don't even have a printer.But I have put printed ones on a floppy and go to the Library to print them.I'm so pleased to hear what you're doing with this site and pray God Blesses your vision and bless you and your wife with like minded believers, even if it's in a home setting.Welcome again and Lord be with you.Annie

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crsschk Mar 18, 2006

Welcome Kevin,Been meaning to respond to this. What a fantastic job you have done drawing these messages together in this way and turning them back out again.Although we haven't taken the Mennonite label, I've found a lot of resonance with conservative and evangelical Anabaptists. While perusing some such sites last December, I noticed a lot of Tozer references. Unfamiliar with him, I googled to sermonindex and after after 2 months of digestion here I am.It is striking that the Lord used A.W.Tozer in such a manner as to be ... maybe I could put it as, "the confuser of denominationalism".

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