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A Fear of Whales
The Trinity is not like an Egg
By
rgaffney
I was just an an outreach for international students where the speaker was a local church pastor. One of the students was bothered by the concept of the trinity, so the pastor tried to explain it. “It’s like your family” he said “You and your parents and your siblings are all different people, but you…
Whovangelism
By
rgaffney
I’ve been a very effective evangelist this summer. Not so much for Jesus; I’ve been hanging mostly with Christians. But for Doctor Who, the long running BBC science fiction program. I’ve converted 4 new Whovians in the last 3 months! I’ve written before about some parallels between Doctor Who and Jesus. But there is a…
Luddites for Jesus
By
rgaffney
Have you heard about the recent study about how people are increasingly disconnected from each other because of the Facebook and txting? Or how traffic accidents are up because people are Twittering while driving? And attendance at church is down because the kids these days can’t tear themselves away from Worlds or Warcraft. Our lives…
Silver and Samaritans Pt 3
By
rgaffney
In Part 1 I talked about The healing of the beggar in Acts 3 and the three parts to peters approach, Focusing on the first part: Eye contact. Paying attention. In Part 2 I identified the second part, as a willingness to give away everything rather than what it seems at first: an excuse to…
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