So, a long time ago, back before www.NeueMinistry.com didn’t redirect to www.NeueResources.com, I wrote an article titled, “How to Sell the Son of God.” When NeueMinistry published it they retitled it “How to Sell Jesus.” Well, when that site shut down and began redirecting, the article was lost somewhere out there in cyberspace.
So, I asked [...]
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Christians pay for all kinds of crazy things. Go into your local Christian bookstore and there is a Jesus-ized version of every product imaginable: jeans, shirts, belts, pencils, mints, video games…you name it, they can make a Christian version of it and sell it to Christians who are willing to pay for it.
But there’s a [...]
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The notion of a female God is nothing new.
But what is new within the past 100 years or so is the notion that the Christian God is, or should be female.
The idea of a masculine God, particularly in a patriarchal society, makes it very difficult for some people to relate to God. This is no [...]
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I recently took a friend of mine out to dinner for his birthday. As we were eating he was telling me about how he was struggling with the fact that his mentor is very ill with cancer and may be dying soon. Interestingly, when I asked him how he would take it if his [...]
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Can you imagine a life with no fear?
It is that question that lies at the heart of Max Lucado’s new book Fearless. In it he explores the possibility of a life lived without fear. At a time when the world seems in upheaval – what with the threat of terrorism, economic recessions, a climbing [...]
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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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With the advent of postmodernism and its wide embrace in our culture, there was a backlash against it by Christians. Postmodernism brought the ultimate death in the notion of any concept of absolute truth and, therefore, God. As is often the case, when the culture swings one way, the Church swings hard to [...]
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Francis Chan is not a very good writer.
His vocabulary is simple and concise, his sentence structure bland and ordinary. In many ways, his writing is reminiscent of your standard preacher who appeals to cliches such as the fact that you could die at any second and that today should be lived as though it [...]
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Imagine this view of heaven: It is one where we Christians get off scotch free, told “well done my good and faithful servant,” and are invited into paradise. We, unlike our unbelieving counterparts, are not judged at all. In place of our names and our sins is the name of Jesus and his righteousness, his [...]
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My friend Jeff Goins just posted a blog entry asking the reader to consider if they might not be full of crap.
To be full of crap is to say one thing, but to be another. It is hypocrisy, but not just in sinning. Hypocrisy is present at any time our actions do not line up [...]
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