2013-02-22T05:48:29-06:00

Defining the Jesus Way Imagine gathering a group of friends who are committed to following Jesus, that is, who desire “to live the way Jesus would live if he were in their bodies.” That’s a John Ortberg phrase. Imagine you take the Gospel of Luke and you study it together in a specific way. The group is assigned to note every verb in the Gospel of Luke of which Jesus is the subject. You observe simple things like “Jesus said,”... Read more

2013-02-22T06:01:46-06:00

Mark Stevens conducted this excellent interview with Jack Levison, who has written an excellent book on the Holy Spirit and I’m posting the whole interview here with Mark’s permission. Interview with Jack Levison Mark – First of all let me congratulate you on your new book Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an inspired life. I know it has been one of, if not, my favourite book this year and as important in my spiritual journey as Fee’s Empowering Presence... Read more

2013-02-16T06:13:07-06:00

Top 10 Time Killers – An infographic by the team at OfficeTime Time Tracking Read more

2013-02-18T07:40:49-06:00

Joel J. Miller writes good posts, and this clip from a recent one one tweaks some noses: Believers in largely ritual-less forms of Christianity, for instance, have trouble establishing a healthy sense of self, according to Danish philosopher Matias Møl Dalsgaard of Aarhus University. Rather than getting direction from tradition (including the church calendar, regular periods of fasting and feasting, the discipline of hourly prayer, the counsel of a spiritual father, etc.), the lone Christian is left to work out the faith... Read more

2013-02-26T05:50:59-06:00

The final section of Tim Keller’s new book Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work explores the ways in which the gospel should shape and focus our work. The four chapters in this section cover a new story, conception, compass, and power for work. What story do you see yourself as a part of? How does it impact your life and work? Or I can ask myself …. What in the world does being a Christian have to... Read more

2013-02-19T18:45:00-06:00

An issue for conversation, an issue I find arising more and more often in New Testament discussion. That issue is often called “supersessionism.” At work here is a simple question: What happened to Israel (or to Judaism, or to faithful Jews) when Jesus came? Did Jesus “replace” Israel with his kingdom people, the church? (That word “replace” is the debate and it is what “supersessionism” is all about.) The question then is this: Does the church replace Israel as the... Read more

2013-02-20T13:24:02-06:00

The State of Women Owned Businesses – An infographic by the team at The State of Women Owned Businesses Read more

2013-02-17T12:22:54-06:00

See this piece from Jordan Weissmann? Where should the single woman not live? Are you a young, college-educated woman? Are you looking to settle down one day with a young, college-educated man? A word of advice: Stay away from Sarasota, Florida. No offense intended to Sarasota’s bachelors — I’m sure they’re lovely. But for every ten guys under 35 with a diploma, there are roughly 18 female college grads the same age roaming the city’s greater metro area. Nobody’s beach body is worth... Read more

2013-02-18T06:51:27-06:00

In her beautiful memoir, Surviving the Island of Grace: A Memoir of Alaska, Leslie Leyland Fields maps the terrain of an isolated place — one small island (Bear Island) off the coast of a larger island (Kodiak) and then another small island (Harvester). The life Leslie lives on Harvester beckons time and time again themes of her growing up poor, her time at Cedarville University learning how to become a writer, her marriage to Duncan and his family’s roots in Alaska,... Read more

2013-02-20T05:27:01-06:00

In his now influential book, Torn, Justin Lee goes “back to the Bible” in his own experience and in this book to determine what the Bible says, and his claim is that whatever it teaches he’s willing to follow. I don’t think it would be unfair to Justin Lee to add “what it teaches clearly …”. He offers a clear and succinct approach to the texts in the Bible about homosexuality with the conclusion that what they say is irrelevant to same-sex, faithful, monogamous... Read more

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