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I had the good fortune of receiving an advance copy of Scot McKnight’s newest book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible from Zondervan who asked me to post a review, which I am happy to do.
Scot begins with the following assumption:
Everyone of us adopts the Bible and (at the same time) [...]

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I had a pretty elaborate post prepared on the whole economic crisis/bailout proposal that I was ready to publish, (instead, I will just point you to this great segment from This American Life, “The Giant Pool of Money,” which clearly and insightfully spells out just how we got in this mess) when another thought struck [...]

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I don’t really like it when a full week goes by and I don’t have a chance to blog - it’s like I get creatively constipated and then I don’t know where to begin.
Aside from just getting back into the swing of things and playing catch up since returning from Afghanistan, I have been busy [...]

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From the Associated Press:
Ohio church: No kissing, tickling allowed
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has issued a detailed list of inappropriate behaviors for priests, saying they should not kiss, tickle or wrestle children.
The newest version of the archdiocese’s Decree on Child Protection also prohibits bear hugs, lap-sitting and piggyback rides.
But it says priests may [...]

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A wise man once said that “godliness with contentment is great gain.” Sadly, we live in a culture which would rather have us understand contentment as a vice - something for the weak, disinterested, and apathetic. It is not.
If this picture strikes you, please check out this brother’s post.

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Corrie, a friend of mine, said something once that has stuck with me. “One of the most meaningful moments in my life was when I realized that being a Christian isn’t about making God a part of my life, but becoming a part of God’s life.” But, as evidenced by the picture above [...]

 

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Something I have wanted to do for a while is to read through the Bible chronologically in order to get a better take on the unfolding of God’s story in Scripture.  I first started thinking about this when I took a Writings course with Dr. Jim Brenneman.  In that class we talked about various aspects [...]

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It’s baseball season. I am from Northeast Ohio, so I am an Indians fan at heart, but to be quite honest I don’t follow baseball all that much. However, Tony Jones offered a good post with regard to a paper he delivered at Wheaton College, in which he likened Christian orthodoxy to an [...]

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An ongoing point of contention between emrging church folk and more traditional and reformed church folk is with regards to preaching. Emerging church folk often seem to have little tolerance for monologue type preaching, noting its one-sidedness and intrinsic bent toward authority (never mind its historic biblical and historical significance for the people of [...]

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Yesterday I was listening to a great message by Rob Bell about the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). He does a great job of contextually exegeting the passage so draw out the point of the parable and helping to work around how we often hear the passage because of our [...]

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