Archives for September 2004

I’m working through Volf’s Exclusion and Embrace. I’ve heard a lot of great things about it in the last couple of years and finally got around to hitting the purchase button at Amazon. So far, I’m finding it to be theologically rich and stimulating. It’s also dense enough in places to throw me off of […]

So. . . What do you do when you find yourself in the belly of a great fish?

Stephen King’s final installment to his The Dark Tower series is out today. I’ll be downloading it from Audible in just a few minutes. Somewhere out there I’m sure someone is thinking, “Are preachers allowed to read Stephen King books?” First, I’m not reading them. I’m listening to them.Second, it could be worse. I could […]

I just went out and picked up The Word on the Street by Rob Lacey. It’s a summary/paraphrase of the Bible done by a 21st century storyteller/perfomance poet from the UK. Here’s how the first chapter of Genesis reads: Genesis / Stuff Starts Up Something out of nothing (Genesis 1:12:3) 12 First off, nothing . […]

I’m starting a new teaching series this week based on Jonah. The title of this week’s message: The Accidental Missionary.

Ive been working through Brian McLarens latest book, A Generous Orthodoxy. So far I’m getting a lot out of it. I usually find McLaren’s stuff inspirational. I read his book, Finding Faith, in my mid-twenties at a time when I thought I was losing mine. In that book, he nudged me back onto the path, […]

G. K. Chesterton said there are two ways to get enough: (1) accumulate more and more or (2) need less. It’s obvious which option we’ve chosen in our culture and the results are disastrous. According to the Christian Science Monitor in 2003: The average debt for U. S. families with at least one credit card […]

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More from Friedman’s “A Failure of Nerve.” Actually this tendency to adapt to immaturity and to sabotage strength is so often characteristic of chronically anxious systems that a good rule of thumb for leaders who are trying to pull any institution out of regression is that when people start calling you “cruel,” “autocratic,” “heartless,” “hardheaded,” […]

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