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Friday, August 26th, 2005John Piper wrote this article a few days ago, and it has really made me think a lot about being a believer in this world, and not necessarily just in America, England, Afghanistan, or wherever you are. Here's an excerpt:
Being Christian exiles in American culture does not end our influence; it takes the swagger out […]
the Jesus of Suburbia
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005The full text of the below quote is at Odyssey.
What often passes for Christianity may be religious but is not Christianity–not yet at least (and one wonders if it ever will be given such a start). Culture Christians are not terribly interested in Jesus of the Bible who said such silly things like: "love your […]
Dieter Zander and Dallas Willard on the emerging church
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005Below came from Jordan Cooper's blog… hereDieter Zander and Dallas Willard on the emerging church in Leadership Journal
Dieter Zander: The emerging church is really saying that the kingdom of God is bigger than the evangelical Christian world. Sometimes that is communicated in constructive ways, sometimes not. But I believe they have a healthy desire to […]
House Churches Website
Sunday, August 7th, 2005http://www.house2house.tv/
Check it out - a site devoted to house churches!(thanks to Mike Thisse for the link!)
Cinderella Man
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005I haven't seen Cinderella Man yet, but after reading this review (and considering I'm a huge Rocky and Russell-Crowe-movie fan!) I most certainly will!
http://henryinstitute.org/commentary/read.php?article=20050714
Event-based Aging
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005So last night, I talked with several different people, and myself and my wife both agree that aging isn't so much a continual thing, but perhaps it comes more in bursts, or with certain events — like you may not age for 5 years, but then having a baby makes up for that by aging […]
Kingdom Leadership in the Postmodern Era
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005I just read a very interesting article on the new/coming/here nature of leadership. This has some roots in the emergent church movement, but it seems much better grounded than many things I've read. I think anyone who has read what Jesus actually says would question a CEO-Pastor model for the church, as does this article. […]
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