Category: Emerging Thoughts
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[Note: Taking a short break from Nicolas Cage movie reviews for a good cause.] I think the “powers of commerce and social media” are just making up holidays at this point, but because this current day is one I happen to believe in, I’ll play along. Today is World Mental Health Day. It was established…
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I just finished The Gospel in a Pluralist Society which I have been quoting so often lately. I have to say I was really blown away by the book. It’s too bad that Newbigin has such a scholarly approach to writing because I think more people could benefit from his writing and the way he…
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I just finished a chapter in Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society entitled, The Logic of "M" (you’ll have to fill in the blank). In light of my post below, "are we having fun yet?" I think Newbigin’s position and statements regarding what we are all (as believers) called to is pretty insightful.…
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This was an article on the front page of the Seattle Times today. It talks about new ways that young believers in the Seattle area are "doing church" and being more fully integrated into community. There’s even a quote from Tom Sine ( author of Mustard Seed vs. McWorld) in there. Kind of encouraging to…
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In our Sunday gathering today the main speaker was talking about all the changes that happen in our world. He was relating these modern changes to the changes that the nation of Israel was facing before and during the Babylonian captivity. By doing so he was trying to show us how some of Jeremiah’s prophetic…
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"It’s interesting how you sometimes have to leave home before you can ask difficult questions, how the questions never come up in the room you grew up in, in the town in which you were born. It’s funny how you can’t ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a…
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My friend just sent me this blog posting on Sufjan Stevens. I’m reposting the exerpt that Mr. Overstreet posted from a Sufjan interview/article (?). I found Sufjan’s words particularly insightful and beautiful. I especially liked his refreshingly non-standard explanation of the Gospel–that we as Christians are "yielding ourselves to the birth canal." Nice imagery: Sufjan:…
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I don’t know, but I think this kind of stuff just makes God sad… Can I just make a heartfelt confession? Sometimes I find it very difficult to unconditionally love my brother in Christ the (unfortunately often quoted) Reverend Jerry Falwell. Especially when the media quotes him saying things like this: "The fact is," he…
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Well…did you miss me? You’d better have responded with a resounding, "Yes!" to that question rather than a somewhat confused, "What? Were you ever gone?" It’s been three days since my last blog post. I guess things got busy this week (in a good way…) Did you ever have one of those days where it…
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I’ve been re-reading Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller. At times, I feel as if Don and I were twins who were separated at birth. Others must feel the same connection to his ideas, stories, and fresh take on Christian spirituallity since his books are widely popular now in certain circles. If you…
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