“What happens when it all becomes about some other life is we end up being very fractured, broken people. I began to discover that you could be a Christian in a nice Christian church and be saved and be singing all the right songs and actually be miserable. And to have [...]
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There’s risk in pointing out to the world one 15-second snippet of a 30-minute teaching. There’s more risk when that teaching comes forth from a specific community rooted in a specific geographic location with a specific history. And there’s even more risk when that community is often criticized either fairly or unfairly.
That being said, there [...]
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I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]
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For many people, entire theological systems are built around us getting out of here. And so many presentations of the gospel are, “Do you wanna know how you can get outta here?” And yet the Scripture is the story not of people going up, the Bible is the story of God coming down. God wants [...]
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If you think you really, really understand the gospel, you don’t. If you really think that you haven’t even begun to understand the gospel, you do. Gospel theologizing isn’t anywhere near enough if we’re going to change the world with it. There has to be a lifelong process of more and more [...]
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Todd Friel has a radio show called Way of the Master. A lot of people know him as the guy who did the Bullhorn Response video to Rob Bell’s Nooma Bullhorn. The following is a conversation with a caller named Sara on the January 12, 2007 show:
Todd Friel: So what’s happening today, Sara?
Sara: [...]
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“How the disciple lives naturally comes out of who the disciple is.”
–Dallas Willard
This is profound, and here’s why:
Matthew 12.34
Whatever is in your heart determines what you say. (NLT)
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (ESV)
Your words show what is in your hearts. [...]
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Yesterday I watched Joel Osteen talk about how our habits affect what kind of people we become.
Today I listened to NT Wright talk about the Enlightenment and being for the world what Jesus was for Israel.
The difference?
I understood the smilin’ preacher.
I’ve read several negative things about ol’ Joel, and whether they’re merited or [...]
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Barbara Curtis (pictured above), a sexually promiscuous fag-hag attended a FamilyLife conference twenty years ago with her second husband and they came home as different people. She says in an article in Christianity Today:
We weren’t sure what had happened to us, but we knew something had changed.
Isn’t that the way it is sometimes? [...]
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