Please Choose Your Comparisons Carefully
Friday, January 1st, 2010Something I read in two articles recently bothered me some. The first was a report on the next Chronicles of Narnia movie, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”. The reporter was bothered that the Christian message of the book is being toned down in the movie. She mentioned that one of the producers was gay and [...]
Warming Up Them 10 Little Digits
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009I haven’t written in a while mostly for good reasons. So this post is an attempt to reawaken my muse, get my brain going again and do some catching up on things that have been jammed into odd little corners of my mind. Something has been occupying my time of late. My church has had [...]
A Little Test
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009I have a question for you. Can you read the above quote and not think “compromise”? It is an important question and it has nothing to do with Mark Driscoll or Matt Chandler, it has more to do with the success of the gospel. Are you optimistic about the progress of the gospel or are [...]
Kenya
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Gillian and I are packing tonight. Tomorrow we get on a plane and head to Kenya for two weeks. Before we’ve even left it has been an amazing trip. One that two and a half months ago I said was impossible. Jesus disagreed and guess who won? So we’re going to work with a friend. [...]
World Conquerers?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008This was going to be a “these two things” post but the subject matter didn’t seem to lend itself to it. First, you’ve probably seen the news reports of the “oldest church” (please attached the word ‘building’ to the end of that) being discovered in Jordan. Archeology is interesting but the building isn’t what got [...]
The Poisoned Social Gospel
Thursday, May 29th, 2008I’m pretty sure this will be posted and linked to and all that all across evangelical blogs, but I have to quote it here. This is from a pastor’s colloquium at The Gospel Coalition. “The social gospel has poisoned the church twice.” The first time, of course, was when the social gospel was first introduced [...]
7 Big Questions, Ordinarily
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Todd Hiestand has poised an interesting question. Some big names in evangelicalism were asked 7 question. Todd wants to know not just what the big shots think, but what ordinary folks think. That is an excellent question. Sometimes the big wigs can get disconnected, pastors of small churches who don’t suffer from celebrity can probably [...]
Calvin on Missions: The Gathering
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007This keeps coming up lately! The caricature of John Calvin that we live with today is that of a cold, calculating person with a pointy head and zero passion. The truth is far from that. Once you actually start reading the Institutes you find out that Calvin was passionate about God. The Institutes at times [...]
Missional – Missio Dei, Missionary or Mission
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Author: D. Goodmanson At the Acts 29 conference Ed Stetzer spoke on the history of the word missional which traces it’s origins from three streams of thoughts: missio dei, missionary & mission. He presents why we may all use the same word, yet it means radically different things for emerging churches, evangelical camps and the [...]
On Mission in Suburbia
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007We have a monumental challenge if we are going to contextualize the gospel and live as missional communities of faith throughout suburban America. We cannot flee. We cannot get out of here. This is where we live. This is where God has called us. And this “God-forsaken place†that we have been called to desperately [...]
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