Culture
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Elections are about rich guys taking on other rich guys. It’s about a two-party system that controls just about everything and is incredibly unresponsive to people. They pay attention to LOBBYISTS, but they pretend to need us (the voters) for a short period of time. It’s rich guys bashing other rich guys for being… well…… Read more
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In just two weeks, Mars Hill went from a huge celebrity pastor and the model for multisite churches to… this. I am not writing this to gloat. I am writing this to ask us, as American Christians, to do something extraordinary… think. We’re not good at it. The huge “crisis” of my young ministry was the… Read more
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When I went to Ethiopia last month, I was asked more than once if I was worried about Ebola. I knew Africa was a huge continent, but when someone described just HOW BIG it is… and it bigger than TEXAS if you can imagine that… I was blown away. Here is a visual I ran… Read more
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We insist on panic in areas that don’t need it. Ebola in America, for instance. We have completely ignored the heavier issue of West Africa… but what is that to us? While we panic over a handful possibly contracting the virus, we continue to ignore larger issues. ISIS is still tearing through Syria and Iraq… Read more
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I am still baffled by the news out of Houston, TX that the mayor wanted sermons subpoenaed from local churches! Allan Bevere hit it on this head with his post. There is a COST to following Christ and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we may begin to feel that pressure a bit here.… Read more
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I am absolutely baffled by what is going on in Houston. The mayor wants to subpoena sermons? Here is one response. And in other news. There are still over 200,000 dead from civil war in Syria with over 9 million displaced. And while we mourn ANY loss from Ebola in the U.S., the death toll… Read more
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I have no memory of when I was this NOT worked up about an election. Ever. I don’t know if that’s a good sign, or bad. I’ll vote. I’ll care. But everything is so predictable these days, it’s perfunctory. Read more
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Sometimes we can reason out the current Middle East situation with logic that says, “Let’s back away from the region and let them work it out… or battle it out.” What would be wrong with that? First of all, it’s incredibly difficult to say WHAT to do… but to do nothing has some scary consequences.… Read more
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Last Friday I began to see a link being passed around from an opinion piece on Charisma Magazine’s site. I didn’t have time to read it, but the reactions from it today are so strong, I went back to read it. The piece is no longer on Charisma’s site, but links can be found to… Read more
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