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Jim Belcher’s right about this, and it is one of the deep characteristics about the emerging movement and it emerges from a suspicion about how evangelism works, about how the gospel works, about how conversion actually works: “What do people have to believe before they belong? What is the role of doctrine? What is the…

This post is from Jen Bradbury, and I read this on her blog through a “tweet”. This is one of the very few posts or reviews that have talked at all about the outcome-based education I talked about in The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible , but more importantly, Jen takes it…

Enter Saul, soon to become the apostle Paul. This is where we pick up the thread of our series on the Book of Acts as we enter into chp 8: 8:1 And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were…

Some fifteen or so years ago I read a wonderful book on preaching by John R.W. Stott (Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today ). In that book, Stott frequently referred to someone I knew very little about but who was obviously a significant figure for Stott. The preacher’s name was Charles Simeon. I…

In Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together we are reminded again of the value of beginning our day as has the Church throughout the ages. Though speaking here of “day together” what he says applies to both groups and individuals, but it would be good for groups — Christian groups — to follow Bonhoeffer’s practice: “For Christians…

Rich professional athletes squandering their millions has become a sad clich?. The 10 ways sports pros blow their cash A Sports Illustrated article this year showed how shockingly common financial ruin is: By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.…

I mentioned yesterday that Donald Miller’s newest book is now available; it is called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life .  Question: in your reading of (or listening to) Donald Miller, what do you like the most? Why did “Blue Like Jazz” take off as it did?…

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever…

Donald Miller’s newest book is now available; it is called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life .  I will be reading it shortly and begin making comments and observations on this blog — hope you can join along in reading.

Let’s give it up for the fishers! (We’re on the East Coast this weekend.) A new blog that deserves a wide readership. An old blog that deserves a wide readership. A blog I always check. A blog that keeps us in touch with publications … more publishers could do this. A blog about real life…
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