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Is Your View of Money Satanic?

February 12, 2010

Being the one to challenge prevailing worldviews is not easy. In raising support, that’s precisely what we sometimes do. When I go on an appointment and challenge somebody to join my team at $100 per month, I am challenging their worldview. God is using me (in some cases) to rub them the wrong way, because [...]

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An Open Letter to the Halloween Protest Organizer Yesterday.

October 29, 2009

I am having a hard time figuring out your target audience. Jesus providentially didn’t have me stop at that intersection, as I’d have probably gotten out and never made it where I was going, but the signs I got a glimpse of at 40 MPH were: Christmas = Jesus, Easter = Jesus, Halloween = ??? and [...]

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An addendum I wish were added to every support letter I send out.

April 15, 2009

A couple of days ago I posted a link to a letter we are sending out asking people for money for our upcoming trip across the country to minister in Santa Cruz, California. One of my fears is that the process of raising support will be misunderstood to be solely a plea for money, or [...]

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Straight from the Cowboy’s Mouth.

July 28, 2008

Hundreds of people knelt in the audience. The leader said “On the count of three, I want everyone to jump, raise their hands, and shout!” Then, with hands raised high in obedience the ones who knew the songs sang the loudest, and others clapped along. It definitely had too much of a mega-church, over-produced worship [...]

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