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A few weeks back, I shared my excitement about a new book, Religions Saves, and Nine Other Misconceptions.
I wrote a few posts since then, talking about individual chapters (1 and 2), but today I’m excited to be on the official blog tour. So, here’s my overall review of the book (and please forgive me if [...]
Most of my recent experience as a follower of Jesus has been learning about the Church: what it is, is not, should be, and eventually will be.
I have worked to get a church started, worked to get a church established, worked with pay and without pay…
And this is still a topic that Steph and I [...]
Look what came in the mail yesterday!
The awesome folks at Crossway and RE:LIT were kind enough to select our dinky little blog here for a free copy of Mark Driscoll’s newest book, Religion Saves – And Nine Other Misconceptions.
One condition: I have to review it here and tell you what I think.
This is a lot [...]
I was home sick this Sunday morning, so while the family was at church, I was on the couch watching the church service from Wave Church in Virginia Beach. I had never heard of the church, but happened to click past a very fired-up dude with a cool Australian accent. I was honestly mostly just [...]
I just read this summary of this message, by Russell Moore, titled “The Devil Votes Christian Values: Why We’re Tempted to be Glorified Satanists Rather than Crucified Followers“.
I can’t wait to listen to the whole thing.
Listen to how he articulates some really powerful truths about how slippery the slope of idolatry can be:
Satan does not [...]
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Yesterday I saw this post over at Zack’s blog (yes, another Zack).
It describes an article based on a section of the book Bono In Conversation, where Bono essentially witnesses to an interviewer.
I love this because it’s such a classic scenario, capturing the stereotypes and assumptions that so often blur our communication about the Gospel. This [...]
No, this isn’t an announcement that our church body will be partnering with Hooters, but I think it’s pretty cool that this church body did.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Houston church’s connection to Hooters — a restaurant chain whose signature is waitresses in skimpy orange shorts and tight tank tops — goes back more than nine years [...]
Mark Driscoll has a new blog post today called ‘Evangelism’.
…very interesting thoughts from someone I admire very much, but who doesn’t often say much on the topic.
Here’s a particularly interesting and insightful snippet:
Lastly, the fact that Jesus remains to this day an active evangelist is of great encouragement to me personally. It means that children [...]
Yesterday I stumbled upon Brad Ruggles‘ blog post that pointed me to this article by Melissa Etheridge.
Say what you want about Rick Warren.
Say what you want about Melissa Etheridge.
I love, love, love to hear stories about believers demonstrating love instead of hate or condemnation.
Here’s the most quotable piece (emphasis mine):
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This is an album that I have loved for a while, by one of my favorite artists. The song “A King and a Kingdom” has some of the best song-writing I’ve ever heard (and so pertinent today):
“There are two great lies that I’ve heard, ‘The day you eat the fruit of that tree you will [...]
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Our local Family Christian Bookstore had a big sale yesterday, and they had a big pile of t-shirts for 50-75% off. I happened to spot this one and it caught my eye. As you can see, the front lists many (all?) of the names of God, which just makes me happy.
But then I flipped it [...]
Brace yourself.
For the first time in a while, I’m making some time to write something somewhat meaningful here.
It’s strange. Although these past couple of weeks have had me busier than ever (lots of driving back and forth between Greensboro and Creedmoor and working really hard to get up to speed at work, plus [...]
This is from a couple days ago over at ‘ASBO Jesus‘. What do you think?
I came across this today.
I like the idea of it, because we often wear our faith as a brand — as if we’re in the ‘christian fish ‘ club, and that makes us better than people in the ‘Buddha’ club or the ‘Rainbow’ club or the ‘Liberal’ club…
And what’s heartbreaking about that is that many [...]
