Is Christianity today what it is supposed to be? Most of us would agree that it is not. Regardless of what we believe about the specifics, most of us know that there is something wrong with the current state of Christianity in the Western world. Such discontent inevitably results in change. But not all change [...]
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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 mentor [...]
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That’s a good thing. That motivation has paved the way for many of the innovative ideas that we enjoy today: iPods, the internet, cars, planes, etc. It is no easy task to change the world, but if you’re really serious about doing it, I’d like to offer you some advice. Before we get to the [...]
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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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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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This past Friday at work I was working on a special project that allowed me to opportunity to be off the phones all day. As someone working in a call center taking up to 80 calls a day, this was great news! As I work, I will typically plug in the old earbuds – sometimes, [...]
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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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