When we read through the Biblical narrative we find Jesus busy at work doing all sorts of things and one of the things that we find him doing then, that he doesn’t seem to be doing much of now, is healing. Actually, that’s somewhat of a simplified statement. Often, those who travel to other cultures, [...]
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We Christians have many mantras that guide our lives. Sometimes, our mantras are derived from the very petty (like bumper stickers) and sometimes from the Bible (which we consider to have a mystical authority for the believer and sometimes we use unhelpful language to describe this authority, but that will be an article I write [...]
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Click below to listen to the sermon I gave to the Tri-Lakes Chapel high school youth group on May 2nd, 2009 entitled “Not of This World.” To view the slides used for the powerpoint, please click here. I would love to get some feedback from you on what you thought. Feel free to leave comments [...]
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Just published another article on Wrecked titled The Community That Is. In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: He who loves his dream of a community more than the community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial. Like most people, [...]
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A friend and I were talking recently about cussing around Christians and non-Christians and we both realized an interesting dynamic: we’re both more comfortable cussing around Christians than we are around non-Christians. No, I did not mess up on that sentence. You see, around other Christians especially Christian friends, we know that we won’t be [...]
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Why Balancing Tension?
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