FB Unpaid Advertising Will End

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Angus Loten: Will this affect you? Do you advertise on FB? Twitter? Chrisy Bossie built a $100,000-a-year gemstone e-commerce business by sharing information about her products on her company’s Facebook page several times a week. “Steals in the Shop! I have a TON of new 36-inch-long necklaces, most priced at $15, available in amethyst, lapis, watermelon tourmaline, turquoise…. Shop them all here,” she wrote in a recent marketing post on a Facebook page for Earthegy, the business she runs from her home... Read more

Ed Stetzer on Missional in the Way of Jesus

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Good post by Ed Stetzer: I cannot define the word “missional,” at least not in an authoritative or definitive way, for everyone. But I can tell you why I think it must include Jesus mission to see and save the lost (Luke 19:10). This does not mean that much of the concern about the way the word “missional” has been used is not warranted. There are some serious and legitimate concerns. However, if we’re going to adopt the term “missional,”... Read more

Skeletons: Introducing Joshua Ryan Butler

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

I will tell you why I like Joshua Ryan Butler’s The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War. Because he’s young and is sensitive to some of the Bible’s most sensitive issues (see the topics in that subtitle?), because he forges his way into these topics not by avoiding them but by fearlessly staring at them, because he sets these topics into the Bible’s story instead of seeing them as an... Read more

Why Church? (by Jeff Cook)

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Why Church? What are we doing on Sundays? Why not just go to the mountains each weekend to experience God? Why spend all the time, the resources, the energy creating and maintaining the weekly gathering? Sociologist Josh Packard’s upcoming work on “the Dechurched” points to a disconcerting trend. The church is losing folks—not people on the edges, but those who have been the most committed over the years. There is an exodus of believing, tithing, heavily engaged, self-identifying Christians. Apparently, they have been... Read more

First Advent Candle

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

With Christians around the world, we use this light to help us prepare our hearts and minds for the coming of God’s Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. May we receive God’s light as we hear the words of the prophet Isaiah: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness — on them light has shined.” — Isaiah 9:2 Let us pray: Lord as we look to the birth... Read more

Advent Scripture Reading

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Isaiah 64:1-9 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence– as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil– to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From ages past no one has heard, no ear has... Read more

First Sunday of Advent

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy... Read more

Weekly Meanderings, 29 November 2014

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

On Ferguson there are so many things to say about racism and injustices — and have been said by many and said well and I will be posting my own thoughts next week — but two clips about media accountability — constant coverage, repeating rumors and not facts, drawing conclusions too early, keeping the process under constant scrutiny — have me thinking about the importance and problem of media coverage of an event like this. The first is by our... Read more

Indeed

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Source: “Christianity is unable to capture modern audiences,” Di Lucca told NBC News. “There’s a lack of innovation and lack of design thinking in Church communities.” The multi-denominational group has launched a campaign on the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo and hopes to raise $1 million to build the first McDonald’s church. As of Friday, only $104 has been raised…. … “We are aware a lot of people will think this is an insane idea,” Di Lucca says. Read more

Exploring the World of the Apostles

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:11 pm By Scot McKnight

Northern Seminary is sponsoring a tour to Turkey and Greece to visit the sits of the apostles Paul and John. And I will be the lead teacher. Our tour will be nearly two weeks long and we will visit major cities and sites. The tour also will include a marvelous stop at none other than gorgeous Santorini, that lovely Greek island, and we will have daily Bible studies focused on the life and mission of the apostle Paul and some... Read more