Category Archives: Faith

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and Why No One Can Get (or Give) Any

May 8th, 2012

I’ve got about six months until I hit 50. That milestone isn’t sitting well with me, though. Part of my unrest is that the major tropes of my youth with regard to the accumulation of years have failed. Or perhaps I should say that I failed to fulfill them. By the time you are 50, [...]

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Also posted in Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Humility, Judgmentalism, Leadership, Maturity, Obedience

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I Had a Dream

January 23rd, 2012

I had a dream. In it, people discovered the fullness of Jesus Christ. People gathered together daily, ate their meals together, and shared the Lord’s Supper in an atmosphere of joy and celebration. People gave, and without man-made limitations. They gave everything they owned, everything they were, and every spiritual gift they had received from [...]

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Also posted in Benevolence, Boldness, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Creation Care, Creativity, Discernment, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Grace, Holiness, Hospitality, Humility, Joy, Leadership, Love, Maturity, Obedience, Perseverance, Prayerfulness, Relevance, Simplicity

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Ending the Descriptive-Prescriptive Battle Once and For All

January 12th, 2012

Nothing infuriates me more than trying to use the Book of Acts to teach people how to live, only to run into some footsoldier of the descriptive-prescriptive battle. These folks love to put the kibosh on one mention after another of how the early Church functioned, particularly when someone asks why today’s Church isn’t functioning [...]

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Also posted in Boldness, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Humility, Love, Maturity, Obedience, Simplicity

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