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Celebrate Jesus! A 4 Week Advent Devotional

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 29, 2014 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

If you can believe it, Advent 2014 begins tomorrow! If the term Advent may is unfamiliar to you, it is this time of anticipation and preparation that begins the Christian liturgical calendar and includes the four Sundays before Christmas. The name comes from the Latin...

Christian Self-Publishing and Marketing Tips

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 13, 2014 | Personal, Publishing | 0 Comments

(Can't see the video or don't care to watch? Get the audio version, here) Over 6 years ago I stumbled into what has become a full-time joy and career: writing and publishing. I haven't really talked about this interest of mine, but today I am because of an exciting...

An Election Day Reminder: Politicians Are People, Too

by Jeremy Bouma | Nov 3, 2014 | American Culture, Christian Spirituality | 0 Comments

A decade ago I had the unique privilege of serving our country, first as a congressional staffer, then as a pastor to politicians and their staff. In my unique role on Capitol Hill I got to know many different people: elephants and donkeys (the Democrat kind); men and...

The #1 Reason Why Millennial Christians Can’t Get Their Spiritual Stuff Together

by Jeremy Bouma | Oct 24, 2014 | Christian Spirituality | 0 Comments

I'm now a bi-weekly contributor to OnFaith, a sort of inter-faith dialogue webzine. Here is my first column. The other day I was browsing my Facebook newsfeed when I came across this article: “50 Reasons This Generation Can’t Get Its Sh*t Together And Actually...

New Book Release & Promo: Understand Emerging Church Theology, From a Former Emergent Insider

by Jeremy Bouma | Jul 28, 2014 | Emerging Church, Personal, Theology, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

One of the things I love about blogging is seeing how people come to my site through Google or other search engine searches. Interestingly, the most frequent search term that brings people to my site is anything to do with the Emerging Church movement and Emergent....