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Proverbs 18: Follow Your Heart?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I grew up watching a lot of the traditional Disney classics. I still like them now, but there is one thing that is theologically troubling about most if not all...
View Article3-Day Sale! Get Equipped for the National Day of Prayer
Starting today, more than 40 resources on prayer are on sale, most for under $30! May 1 is America’s National Day of Prayer, and to help you get ready, we’ve picked some of our favorite resources on...
View ArticleOne Man’s Commentary: Genesis 26
This week’s One Man’s Commentary brings us to Genesis 26. In this chapter Issac speaks to God, lies about his wife, and makes a deal with Abimelech much in the same way his father had before him....
View ArticleHospitality: God’s Answer to Exclusion
Humanity has always been characterized by a toxic proclivity to exclude. Exclusion in capitalist countries materializes as a war between economic classes. Within families and small communities,...
View ArticleGossip
Gossip needn’t be false to be evil — there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark This quote hit me hard this week. See I learned a lesson about gossiping – one you would...
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I'm Feeling a Little "Loopy"
OK, folks. I have an announcement to make and it is both good news and bad news.The bad news (since everyone always wants that first) is I am not going to be able to do my usual blog entries at...
View ArticleWhen Was the Last Time You Made a Thank You Phone Call?
photo credit: Andrew Stawarz via photopin ccI’ve written in the past about the importance of a handwritten thank you note. Today, I want to write about how meaningful a thank you phone call can be....
View ArticleResonance
It’s a measure of my addiction to House of Cards that I wound up watching an episode on my laptop, earbuds firmly in place, while, in the same room, my wife watched Into the Wild on the television. As...
View ArticleThe One About My Kids
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. - 1 Peter 5:7 I'd love the chance today to tell you just a little bit about my children. I marvel at their uniqueness and their courage....
View ArticleWhen the Fullness of Time Had Come
The timing of the incarnation of Jesus had something to do with the development of God's plan of redemption, along with the development of humanity as a whole. The time was right for God to reveal more...
View ArticleLinks To Go (April 29, 2014)
What Must Be Preserved of the Churches of Christ? (the Church, Part 2) On the other hand, the notion that we meet to “perform Five Acts of Worship” misses the point of the assembly and points...
View ArticleGoing Dutch in the Modern Age
John Halsey Wood, Jr. Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, x + 235pp....
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200 Girls Still Missing, Victims of Nigeria's Religious War
With the upbeat gusto of a prosperity preacher, President Jonathan has soft pedaled the crisis while continuing to celebrate birthdays, weddings and an election campaign—even as parents are frightened...
View ArticleOrange 2014
Beginning in 2008 and continuing into 2014…I’ll be at THE Orange Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This year takes on an entirely new flavor, but I feel like maybe I say that every year. Orange, is...
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Same-sex marriage, religious freedom and a liberal twist
An extremely interesting — and potentially highly important — twist came Monday in the ongoing culture wars over religious liberty. New York Times religion writer Michael Paulson reports: In a novel...
View ArticleHow Do You Know When You’ve Gone From ‘Zero Church’ to ‘Local Church’ In a...
As thousands of church planters gather today in Orlando for the Exponential conference, I can’t help but ask again, “What is a church plant?” I’m not asking what church planting is, because there...
View ArticleAn Interview with Bill Pollard
In this interview, we talk with C. William Pollard, chairman of Fairwyn Investment Company and best-selling author of The Soul of the Firm. His newest book is The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and...
View ArticleUpholding Christ and the Constitution
Categories: OpinionTags: Christianity, justice, religious freedomBy Mogoeng Mogoeng, Chief Justice of South Africa — Originally published in Mail & Guardian Freedom of religion and belief is a...
View ArticleU.S. conservatives frightened & confused by pope's moral world.
Yesterday Pope Francis took to Twitter to launch a new phase of Catholic Social Teaching. With just seven words he shook the foundations of the Catholic moral universe: "Inequalty is the root of...
View ArticleThe Clippers Curse – Donald Sterling (Leadership Lessons)
Moving to Los Angeles in 1998, I had a tough choice to make. As a lifelong Mavericks fan and a Sonics fan since 1994 (Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp!), I could not stand the Lakers. Even though Kobe and I...
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