Fresh, Clear Insights
on making the vintage faith relevant againYou are God’s Handiwork. Now Stop Running and Get To It!
For several months now I've been running. And I'm exhausted. I originally wrote that i was running from myself. Running from my story. Running from what makes me, me. Running from what makes my heart leap like a gazelle. But that's not what it is. It's way deeper....
read moreChurch: Knock The Socks Off Your World! A Message on Acts 19
This is a message I gave a few Sunday's ago on Acts 19:23-41. The story tells of this "great disturbance of The Way." Apparently the early church was creating a ruckus in the way it was living and loving. Which makes sense. Because Jesus lives we have hope—and the...
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Gay Marriage is Not a Justice Issue: Rawlsian vs. Christian Justice
This was an important article a few years ago in light of the two historic Supreme Court judgments involving California's Prop 8 and DOMA. It's even more important given the acerbity surrounding the recent freedom of religion bills in Indiana and others states, and...
read moreHow Do You Talk About Sin with Adolescents? Thoughts from Andrew Root’s New Book
Here is a Monday column at Zondervan’s Engaging Church blog, a wonderful resource for ministry leaders. It’s another post on the new must-read set of resources for youth workers by youth practitioner and expert, Andrew Root. Last time we talked about taking the cross...
read moreThe Gospel of Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity for a Multi-Faith World
Three years ago I had had enough. I was a seminarian, making my way through Master of Divinity and Master of Theology programs, and I'd begun to realize I'd been hoodwinked by one of the hottest post-evangelical movements of the time: the Emerging Church Movement. Up...
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