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  • Your thoughts...???

    I read a pretty great article today. Here are a few quotes from it to get the idea. I'm still processing it--to be honest. Any thoughts...???"Do church leaders study the complexity and changes of our cultural environm…

  • No more forgiveness talk

    There is a story of a moment when a man named Rich had been in an argument with a friend that ended in an abrupt bitterness. The story would have it that Rich, later that evening, would show up at the friends house and …

  • How we doin...

    I am in Zechariah right now, and today I have read chapters 7 and 8. There are some instructions regarding the MOTIVE behind fasting (and all other ritual) but asking the people, "was it really for me that you were fasti…

  • love for God??

    "To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid 'big' sins--is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?" - Francois Fenelon, The Seeking Heart

  • God, I know you are doing something different in my heart as it applies to ministry and culture. I am beginning to sense and accept that a particular mission is before me. I crave the exodus from the suburbs. I crave…

  • ASSessment

    Firemen arrive on the scene assessing the need for rescue and resources months after the flames and fire had claimed the entire home. Slow bleed turned gaping wound too soon; thanks for watching...

  • free church

    No perfect people allowed! What if that were more than a statement? What if that was the motto lived out in the Church? What if it were more than a motto and more of a lifestyle lived out in the Church? What if we be…

  • "The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society." - Martin Luther King Reading over Dr. King's words here, I …

  • One Tim

    I am getting sick of being treated like I am "the Church of tomorrow". Even after a BA in Ministry and a nearly completed MA in Christian Leadership, I am occasionally looked upon as the younger one without any experien…

  • IMMUNITY

    Through one of the discussions following a breakout session I taught this weekend, I have been thinking through a certain image and how it relates to our own Christian culture and the safety it provides. You have seen t…

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