Monthly Archives: June 2014

BLOG 6/29/14. WHENEVER THE LIGHT CHALLENGES THE DARKNESS …

BLOG 6/29/14. WHENEVER LIGHT CHALLENGES DARKNESS—TROUBLE. Sometimes those of us who live inside of our comfortable Christian communities need to stop and remind ourselves of our calling, and of the very forthright warnings of our Lord Jesus about the hazards … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/25/14. DEVELOPING THE GIFT OF CONTAGIOUS CONVERSATION

BLOG. 6/25/14. DEVELOPING THE GIFT OF CONTAGIOUS CONVERSATION (This is a continuation of the 6/23/14 Blog, and comes in response to some inquiries and comments by my readers.) My personal persuasion is that anyone who has intentionally received Christ in … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/23/14. SHORT-CIRCUITING THE GOSPEL?

BLOG 6/23/14. SHORT-CIRCUITING THE EVANGELISTIC MANDATE OF THE CHURCH? Why is it that some Christian communities are growing spontaneously, while others are slowly devolving into some kind of evangelistic atrophy? Why, if a ‘believer’ is a person in whom Jesus … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/18/14. OUR GOSPEL: COMFORTING OR DISTURBING?

BLOG 6/18/14. OUR GOSPEL: COMFORTING OR DISTURBING? A thought and a question: Is our gospel one of comfort, or is it a disturber of our comfortable indifference to crucial issues in our culture. This question has come back to me … Continue reading

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BLOG 6:15. WHAT DO WE HAVE IN THE PRESENT CHURCH … AND WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

BLOG 6/15/14 SO, WHAT DO WE HAVE WITH THE PRESENT CHURCH … AND WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? In my last blog, I indicated that we probably needed to be aware of some of the dominant images of the church, … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/11/14. THE KINGDOM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ‘RELIGION’

BLOG 6/11/14. THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ‘RELIGION,’ WOULD YOU BELIEVE? Alright … let me unpack that title: following up on my last blog (6/8/14) requires that I make a determined effort to get us over … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/8/14. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE ‘KINGDOM OF GOD’?

BLOG (6/8/14) WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE ‘KINGDOM OF GOD’? Allow me to apologize in advance, just in case this all sounds insufferably arrogant to my readers, because I make no pretense at any impressive theological erudition … but … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/4/14. THE CHURCH IS “NOT A TAME LION!”

BLOG. 6/4/14. THE CHURCH IS “NOT A TAME LION!” In C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia it is made quite clear that even though the lion Aslan is good, he certainly is not tame. It was not Aslan’s nature to … Continue reading

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BLOG 6/01/14. THE CHURCH’S INABILITY TO IMAGINE ANYTHING ELSE.

BLOG 6/1/14. THE CHURCH’S INABILITY TO IMAGINE ANYTHING ELSE Face it: if one has no clear conception of what it is that Christ’s purpose is in ‘calling out’ a people—which is what the very word church means, i.e., “a people … Continue reading

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