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I was listening the other day to a message given by a teaching pastor that I respect.  He was teaching on baptism, specifically whether or not aspiring members needed to share the official doctrinal stance of the church before being accepted as members.  Rather than addressing that question directly, he decided to take a round-about [...]

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This past Sunday I had my first opportunity to address the Living Hope community. I must have had a thousand different thoughts on what to share. Ultimately, I really wanted to share some of my story and highlight something that I found relevant for where we’re at as a community of [...]

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Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.

I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]

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I got to spend this past weekend in Chicago.  I was there for a few reasons.  I got to visit my cousin Gwen and her fiance Rob - here’s us in the Bean at Millennium park.
(more Chicago pics here)
I was attending a mini-seminar on “Seeding Missional Communities” with David Fitch and others at Life [...]

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I think the way we speak about Scripture, justice, church and salvation, and the way we practice preaching, community and sanctification as communities has everything to do with the way the Spirit shapes us as people.
David Fitch said that on a blog post I read the other day.  I felt compelled to pass it on [...]

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Prompted by my friend Billy, I picked up a new book by John W. Wright, Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation. A student of Hauerwas and with commendations from Ray Anderson, Marva Dawn, and James K.A. Smith, I knew I’d like the book before I even cracked it open. I am [...]

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In case you were wondering, apparently offering bribes is no longer a moral issue!

This is an ad right off the page of a church.  That’s right, a sermon series about not being self-absorbed which folks are bribed into attending by the offer of a free iTunes gift certificate.
Regarding the tactics, a Southern Baptist spokesman said, [...]

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I just finished listening to this message/podcast by Scot McKnight (check out his blog here) entitled, “The Whole Gospel.” 
It is definitely worth a listen and I’ll be adding it to my audio page.  Incidentally, if you tend to only read my stuff through a feed reader, I have tried to catalog a number of [...]

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2 things compel me to take a stab at a post bearing this title.
First, the other day I was listening to a message being given by a Bible teacher that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. He was seeking to share with his congregation a version of the gospel which weds the [...]

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“The scandal of the cross is that God’s strength is incarnated in weakness.”

I really want to encourage you to listen to a message by Al Dueck, a professor of psychology at Fuller. He delivered this talk as a Baccalaureate message to Fuller’s graduates just this past [...]

 

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