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Spiritual formation and exile
The more we will walk in these uncertain days the more we are in need of spiritual formation and spiritual rhythms. As we go into a spiritual Babylonian exile, we need to understand we are equipped for this time. Without Christ, we deal with a void. John Mark Comer and James Bryan Smith talk about spiritual formation in a time…
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The heaviness of this past week SHOULD lead us into Lent
What a week. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. (Just sit on that thought for a few seconds.)
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Leaving Babylon Part 4
This episode came from a lot of emotion because I had another conversation with another young minister who is leaving a conservative denomination because of the current partisan climate. The nice part of me wants to apologize for that, but I won’t. The closer we draw to the election, the more doubling down culturalized Christians are doing, leaving friends of…
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Posts that don’t age well
The curse of the Facebook timeline reveals dumb things I said years ago. Things that live on to constantly remind me of the fact: What in the world do I really know? This one was for today:
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Leaving Babylon Part 3
I am continuing my series on “Leaving Babylon” on my podcasts. Video is HERE. Podcast is HERE. Also available in Apple Podcasts HERE.
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A lament for the American Church in the time of cornavirus
Over the last couple of years I have toyed around with a book. I have a working title: “Living in Babylon.” Last year I sat down and put all my notes together so I could have some sense of what I had studied over the 2-3 years I had been picking at it. As I write this, the United States…
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A generational reset
I have some blocks of time to type up my notes for a work I hope to call “Living in Babylon.” A couple of observations.
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All can be “well” and we can STILL be blind
One of the common mistakes we make in diagnosing current times is “how things are going.” If things are going reasonable “well” for us, we can’t see what might wrong beneath the surface, or care to explore that beneath the surface. In the U.S., we can say, “Hey, the economy is humming along (for us saying it, of course), so…
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To walk in the prophetic
There were some crazy ideas of “the prophetic” when I was growing up and then when I was early in ministry. There are still some wild ideas about what it means to be “prophetic” even today. Some things just keep recycling. Here is what I have concluded as I keep walking through Jeremiah and Daniel in my work on “Living…
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