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If you’re going to doubt, make sure you can doubt your doubts
This is simply brilliant from Dallas Willard. I REALLY miss him in our current day!
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We will, quite simply, change your mind
It thought of that line in relation to how I want us to live as believers. It is too easy to get caught up in the blogosphere, the media, entertainment, etc., and form our opinions. There are some incredibly strong opinions about the church, and those with any measure of angst blog about it. The ones with real angst get the media…
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We get torn apart by our terminology
Richard Stearns, head of World Vision, wrote a response on a perceived attack on the term “radical Christians.” This was in response to a Christianity Today piece on the “new radicals.” Stearns’s response is basic: “Yep, we’re radical, and we’re not radical enough!” It’s gone back and forth in a way that reminds me of the days when my “tribe” (Pentecostals) were…
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Engaging the Kingdom — Overcoming Evil
“Our willingness to yield up everything when we are bidden to do so is our willingness to have enough in Jesus Christ alone, to desire to follow him alone. Our voluntary renunciation of counterviolence confirms and proclaims our unconditional allegiance to Jesus as his follower, our freedom, our detachment from our own egos. And it is only in the exclusivity…
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Hype
I will say on this on a blog. This will then automatically connect to my Twitter and Facebook accounts. So, what I’m about to say goes against how I am going to communicate it. That’s the hypocrisy of this exercise. This is about hype. It’s about how in the western Church we are all about what is “epic” or the…
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Engaging the Kingdom — Ask, Seek, Knock
Matt. 7:7-11 Jesus seems to lay down the impossible before us when it comes to being in the Kingdom. The Sermon on the Mount can be read as incredibly demanding and grueling. The King doesn’t ask his disciples to do the impossible. He lays out the means to climb to what seems impossible. It lies in those very simple words:…
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Giving up Facebook
I will be taking a break from Facebook… in a way. I’ll still have the account, but the discipline I need to follow is only connecting my blog, and maybe an occasional Twitter comment, to Facebook. No more Facebook “stalking,” or trying to update my own status. I have hopefully loaded up the pictures from the San Francisco trip I…
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Reflections on a Murder One Block from My House
There was a shooting yesterday morning one block from my house. It was a party going late and a man was shot while sitting in his car across the street. Police know it wasn’t random. There are several things swirling in my head as I process the thought of a murder one block away. 1. Murders happen. They happen in…
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The Bland Gospel
For some reason there needs to be an attack “radical” Christianity. We want to be radically normal. God bless us all. Whether we are headed to the most unreached people group of the world, or out the door to coach our kids’ baseball team, I think I really want to ask, “How do we see JESUS?” Mark Labberton’s piece in…
Category: Discipleship/Spiritual Formation
