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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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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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Steve Jobs, Jesus Christ, and the Bland Conformity of Western Christianity

October 27th, 2011

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. —Apple Inc., “Think Different” ad, 1997 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and [...]

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