Culture

The Loss of Humanity … Who Will Stand for the Children? …

Baby boom! Our community of faith shares in the blessing of the gift of life. By the end of the day today we will have celebrated the safe arrival of three little ones in the last eight days and four in the last two months. These precious little ones … Continue reading

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Domestication of the Gospel … an all too often practiced habit …

Doing some reading for an upcoming message led me to pick up Leslie Newbigin’s, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. It is always encouraging when you read a missiologist who epxresses what you sense and feel you are guilty of and so also a number of well-intentioned evangelical … Continue reading

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May not be too strange bedfellows …

My friend Spencer Burke expresses the need for a metaphorical shift in leadership when he calls us to be Fellow Travelers rather than Tour Guides. Sometimes want to find the place between the polarities of the Calvinist-Arminian controversy he is not sure of a fit anywhere. Yet, here is … Continue reading

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The power of the media …

Just finished watching OU dispatch Nebraska. Jason White gave a Heisman like performance. The analysts on FSN should remain on a cable-styled regional telecast. Repeatedly making comments no doubt intended to make a dominant performance interestsing. The cut-aways at half-time and at the end of the game featured even … Continue reading

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Churched, unchhurched, de-churched …

The use of categories often runs the risk of depersonalizing the very people pitched in thee various categories used. Leonard Sweet offers how one church has handled the traditional penchant to use labels to describe those outside the Church, people of God, community of faith.

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