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Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All

December 20, 2011

Here’s the third post in my Advent and Star Trek series where we actually get to the advent part! This was originally posted on December, 3, 2011 ————————— So have you ever thought of Star Trek’s “Borg” and Advent in the same thought and discussion? Probably not. But here it goes. Of course context helps [...]

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Quick Thots on King Jesus Gospel

November 11, 2011

I just finished Scot McKnight’s most recent book King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited and wanted to share a few thoughts. I’m not going to do a big review here. I’ll redirect you to a review my friend Mike did on this book a month or so ago. I’m not sure I would [...]

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My 3 Year Old’s Christology

September 7, 2011

My son has given us some great moments this past month, particularly on the spiritual front. It’s clear he has a Christology of his own right now regarding who Jesus is and what he does. I’ll illustrate with three examples, all from the last few weeks. He may not be too far off the mark [...]

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Quick Review: Imaginary Jesus

August 24, 2011

I just finished Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos and wanted to do up a quick review. A lot of people I know read this way before me as the author is a fellow staff member of my ministry organization. I read it mostly because this book is being included in a lot of outreach materials [...]

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Developing Cross-Culturally on Mission (Article)

November 14, 2010

As I slowly build the Article and Resources section on my site, I’m releasing an updated and newly formatted version of an article I wrote a couple years ago focused on developing cross-culturally in the context of cross-cultural situations with an emphasis on cross-cultural missions.It’s a “tested” article in that I’ve used in for a [...]

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Prophetic Heartbreak (Why I Follow Jesus)

April 2, 2010

It’s Good Friday and I want to step outside of my general practice and share more personally about what I’m thinking about this Easter season. One of my pet peaves is being at Christian “outreach” events in which a guest speaker speaks and does a Q & A and then in about two thirds of [...]

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Conferences Or Christ?

February 20, 2010

In my ministry right now, it is conference season. There’s student conferences, there’s staff conferences, there’s leadership conferences, and that doesn’t even get into the fun conferences offered out in the greater world beyond.I am on staff with Epic Movement, which is a part of the larger ministry/organization Campus Crusade for Christ. There are so [...]

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My Thoughts on Santa

December 7, 2009

This is going to be a rare post in which I’m not sure where I’m going to end up by the end. But this post is going to focus on Santa. It’s about that time where various Christians will start posting stuff on why Jesus is superior to Santa. My friend told me he got [...]

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The greatest issue today?

November 30, 2009

I’ve been reading Dallas Willard’s The Great Omission. This brief paragraph captures some of where this book heads so I wanted to post it and see if any of you might have any thoughts or responses to it…. “So the greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heart-breaking needs, is whether those who, [...]

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