Category: Christian Living
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Finding Amen
Our posture as Christians is Amen. While I may disagree with friends in Christ. While I may not understand their culture, their gender, their sexual preference, their politics, or what it is like to walk in their skin… I can choose to stand with a Christian friend and say Amen. I can even look at…
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Hold On, Dreamer!
Reject the sleepers gravitational pull! His mediocrity and compromise feels so easy but brings such torment. (Eph 5:14) While the old, learned, and supposedly wise stare down their noses at your youthful spirit– lead them by chasing your unfalteringly impossible dreams. (1 Timothy 4:12) Yet don’t be deceived. Those temple-loving Christians want you dead. Your dreams…
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The Prize
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.” ~ 1 Corinthians 9:24 Ah, the prize! I am wired to win the prize. Well, sometimes I am. Can I be honest? I’m better at running really hard than I am at knowing what…
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Skin in the Game
There’s only so far a good heart and good intentions will take you. If you’re going to work towards significant and lasting change in a community you need to have some skin in the game. Ministers are so… transient. We move from ministry to ministry and in many cases we move from community to community.…
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What does engaging the neighborhood look like, practically?
That’s a question I get a lot. And I’ve got a couple friends here in San Diego that know a lot more about that than I do. Here’s a little intro they are doing… if you’re interested in figuring out, practically, what it looks like to literally make your life Good News in the Neighborhood,…
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Beyond Proclaiming Christ
Where We’ve Been In the 1940s Billy Graham became one of Youth for Christ’s first full-time evangelists. In post-World War II America, he took to the airwaves and spoke at rallies around the world. Thousands responded. And, in some ways, modern-day evangelicalism was born. Back then the Bible was taught in schools. It was a…
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The thread
“It’s like I’m hanging onto my faith by a thread. I just don’t know what to do anymore.” It’s a powerful image, isn’t it? A hand desperately clinging to a tiny thread connecting him to the Eternal. A weary hand outstretched, tearful eyes, and a gravitational pull towards a threadless life. When someone says that…
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The Sacred Act of Pulling Weeds
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 Sometimes in the movies the bad guy goes into a church confession booth. He sits down heavily in the chair and the priest says, “Son, how long has it been…
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The unstoppable force of amen
The word amen declares affirmation. I agree. Amen is not simple. It’s an ancient posture we’ve lost sight of. Amen is something we experience when we stand together in agreement. Living in amen isn’t the forebearance of ones own opinion so much as it’s setting ones own opinion in submission of the amen of community.…
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A Rapture Box. Really?
The sign reads, “”In case of the disappearance of True Christians, there are instructions located in the above box to help those who are left behind.” Kristen sent me the link to this from a blog she reads. It was spotted in a small baptist church which hosted a piano recital. A few thoughts… This…