Monthly Archives: March 2009

Still Looking for a Few Good Men

March 16th, 2009

When I was growing up, it seemed like men were different. I can’t put my finger on it exactly—and maybe it’s a rose-colored glasses thing tinted by youth and inexperience—but men seemed more serious back in the 1960s than the men of today. Back then, if a man who lived nearby said he’d meet you [...]

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

Tagged Discipleship, Faith, Manhood, Maturity. Selflessness, Men, Rites of Passage, Training

Revival Then and Now

March 13th, 2009

I wrote about systems the other day, and this systemic difference between a hundred years ago and now came to mind: Then, when revival came after times of diligently seeking the Lord, everyone dropped whatever he was doing and local churches were filled to capacity 24/7 for weeks and sometimes even months. Now, after many [...]

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Posted in Boldness • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Counterculture • Dying to Self • Godly Character • Leadership • Obedience • Oddities • Perseverance • Relevance • Revival • Simplicity • Work

Tagged Great Awakening, Jobs, Kingdoms, Revival, Systems, Work

Wicked Systems

March 11th, 2009

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain expert for one of the [...]

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Posted in Boldness • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Counterculture • Discernment • Godly Character • Holiness • Leadership • Maturity • Obedience • Perseverance • Relevance • Spiritual Warfare

Tagged Answers, Battle, Failure, Francis Schaeffer, Kingdoms, Questions, Success, Systems, War, William Deming