Monthly Archives: January 2009

My Hope & Prayer for 2009

January 12th, 2009

I opened 2008 with a post that laid out what I thought was the key for the Church for the year: listening to the Holy Spirit. If anything, 2008 proved without a shadow of a doubt that the American Church went deaf. Last year saw the financial meltdown and the Lakeland “revival.” Do I need [...]

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Posted in Apologetics • Boldness • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Evangelism • Faith • Godly Character • Love • Maturity

Tagged 2009, Discipleship, Evangelism, Witnessing

The Rules of Attraction (Spiritual Edition), Part 2

January 8th, 2009

In my previous post on this topic of being spiritually attractive, I noted that, too often, the contemporary Church in America resembles the slightly annoying, loud, “two bagger” friend of the naturally beautiful girl, and that’s the reverse of what it should be. We are the Bride of Christ, not the also-ran. We caught the [...]

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Posted in Benevolence • Boldness • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Community • Counterculture • Creation Care • Creativity • Discernment • Dying to Self • Evangelism • Faith • Godly Character • Grace • Holiness • Hospitality • Humility • Joy • Judgmentalism • Leadership • Love • Maturity • Obedience • Oddities • Perseverance • Prayerfulness • Relevance • Simplicity

Tagged Archie Bunker, Arts, Attraction, Attractiveness, Beauty, Brotherhood, Counterculture, Culture, Evangelism, Hospitality, Listening, Love, Mercy, Natural Beauty, Winsomeness

On Pondering…

January 7th, 2009

I had planned last night to write the second part of my look at how the Church can return to being attractive, a trait that the early Church had in spades. {See part 1 of “The Rules of Attraction (Spiritual Edition).”} What stopped me was a very simple truth that seems lacking in today’s society: [...]

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Posted in Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Counterculture • Creativity • Discernment • Godly Character • In the News • Leadership • Maturity • Oddities • Relevance

Tagged Automakers, Business, Detroit, Forethought, Japan, Long Range Plans, Long Term Thinking, Planning, Plans, Pondering, Thinking, Wonder