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The Romance of Orthodoxy
There were many Christian scholars I was introduced to in college. It wasn’t until after college though, that I was introduced to the words of G.K. Chesterton, in James Bryan Smith’s biography of Rich Mullins.
I first read about Chesterton in The Christian Imagination. There I learned of the man who was a journalist and [...]
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- Artists and Elitism For many artists, art is more than something they do,...
- Thoughts on Imagination from Hayhow’s Review I just stumbled across Hayhow’s Review, which has the tagline:...
01/24/2010 10:35 PM
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Caesar is not God, Part 1
The following quote is from page 9 of Their Blood Cries Out: The Worldwide Tragedy of Modern Christians Who are Dying for Their Faith. It’s an excellent book on the Persecuted Church worldwide.
One thing we can say is that the assault on Christians is a fundamental part of the assault on human freedom itself. [...]
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01/12/2010 08:53 PM
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Shalom
When people of Jewish faith greet one another with “Shalom,” they aren’t simply saying, “Peace.” This Hebrew word means much more than that. Shalom means “May you live in anticipation of that day when God makes all things whole again.” What the prophets are describing in the imagery of the great homecoming is really the [...]
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- …and has a wonderful plan for your life God loves you, and has a wonderful plan for your...
- Christian Imagination Study - Purpose Tonight, my small group began a series on The Christian...
01/06/2010 12:28 PM
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Building Community Through Service
How does one build community within a church body? How do we learn to trust one another? How can we get beyond the surface?
Some of the ways our church seeks to build community is through small groups, dinner clubs, a luncheon between services once-a-month, and a break between services. Recently, we’ve been serving outside [...]
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- When Servanthood is Bad When I’m around church people, I always check whether they...
- Willow Creek going deeper One of the recent stories heard throughout the blogosphere is...
01/04/2010 08:03 PM
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Writing in 2010
It’s 2010, and I’m thinking about what to write about this year. I received a comment on one of my posts suggesting I elaborate more on the topic. Most of my posts are not intended to be comprehensive. Part of the challenge of writing for an Internet audience is understanding what people are looking for. [...]
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- Festival of Faith and Writing Back in 1998, my last year at Messiah College, we...
- Mustard Seed Sampler One newsletter I highly recommend is the Mustard Seed Sampler...
01/03/2010 05:33 PM
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The Return of the King, Jesus the Christ
You probably know that I am a Tolkien fan. I’m using a Hobbit banner, and one of my popular posts is about Tolkien’s view of evil. When I was in New Zealand during the “Return of the King” world premiere, the church I was attending, who was along the parade route, decided to put up [...]
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- The Fiction of Jesus Fiction: “The telling of stories which are not entirely based...
- Are we worthless without Christ? As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not...
01/02/2010 12:05 PM
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Happy New Decade!
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
It’s a new year, and a new decade (depending when you start counting decades). Though it’s just another day, I like the idea of starting fresh with a new year. Sometimes [...]
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- Shalom When people of Jewish faith greet one another with...
- Where there is no vision… Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;...
01/01/2010 05:04 PM
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Welcoming the Stranger
Palmer suggests that the church should become a kind of “halfway house between the comforts of private life and the challenges of diversity” (Palmer, 1981:28) The idea of intentional “halfway houses” where both the marginalized and church members come together as strangers has great potential for reuniting church and mission and for encouraging mutual transformation. [...]
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- Worshipping with Aaron Strumpel In case you don’t know, my church body, Timberline Oldtown,...
12/06/2009 05:49 PM
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When Servanthood is Bad
When I’m around church people, I always check whether they are misled by the modern secular vision. Have they substituted the vision of service for the only thing that will make people whole—community? Are they service peddlers or community builders? Peddling services is unchristian—even if you’re hellbent on helping people. Peddling services instead of building [...]
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- Building Community Through Service How does one build community within a church body? How...
12/04/2009 01:09 PM
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Did You Know 4.0
The latest in this video series by XPLANE, The Economist, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Laura Bestler. Comments welcome.
11/30/2009 07:47 AM
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