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Barna on growing house church attendance and on the lack of relationships among pastors. |inline Read more
Barna on growing house church attendance and on the lack of relationships among pastors. |inline Read more
The conclusion to Randall Balmer’s Thy Kingdom Come is both a jeremiad and a plea — a critique of the Religious Right and a basket of suggestions of how evangelicals can move forward. There is no way to sum this up, so let me offer some highlights: |inline Read more
I’ve got a book that you need (or one like it): Ginny Olson’s Teenage Girls: Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face and Strategies to Help Them. Recently Kris and I were at a store, we went to the counter, and I observed on the wrist of the 20-yr old young woman slash marks: “Cutting,” I said to myself. Are you noticing this? |inline Read more
What are the obligations of friendship? What can a friend reasonably expect of a friend? I’ve not thought much about this, other than in the quiet moments of visceral responses when something happens in a relationship to a friend. So, I’m quite impressed with what Epstein, in his Friendship, turns up. |inline Read more
Three voices are groaning at the same time, and if you listen you will hear each. If you listen, you will hear not just a groaning but the groaning pains of a woman in labor trying to give birth. Who is groaning? |inline Read more
Had the Apostle Paul lived to see the war of Rome with Israel in 66-73 AD, what would he have done? Here are some considerations: |inline Read more
Turning Lemons into Lemonade, Paraclete Press Announces an Innovative Book Sale Unlike Any Other! Pastors, youth pastors, and other ministry leaders are offered Paraclete’s best titles at outrageously low prices! |inline Read more
The third section of Spencer Burke’s A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity is called “Living in Grace: Mystical Responsibility.” Again, I’ll provide here the main lines of his thinking: |inline Read more
Within the emerging movement there has been a much-needed shift from emphasizing future redemption to present redemption. It is mistaken to speak of this as a shift from “heaven” to “kingdom,” and by the latter think one can equate kingdom with earthly realities. As Jesus uses the term, kingdom is both a present and future reality. What about Paul? We now enter a text that also has been a favorite in the emerging movement. |inline Read more
Environmentalism? Where do you stand? Are you green, dark green, light green, or something else? If your tendency is to move to another blog because this post is about something you are not interested in, well maybe you should hang out a while and read this. In R. Balmer’s Thy Kingdom Come, chp 5, he draws this major conclusion: |inline Read more
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