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We announced yesterday that we are leaving staff.  The website will start looking a bit different over the next few days, as I make it more current-chapter-of-life friendly.

We are so excited for the clarity God has given us for this transition, and I want to take a minute to clarify something for anyone out there who might be reading this and thinking some variant of the following, which I recieved in an email from somebody I’d been trying to meet with for support:

I’m going to go ahead and assume that my poor communication and slowness in getting back to you this week was not the cause of you leaving staff. That would be sad for me.

My answer to this person was that they were a part of God’s answer to our prayers for clarity.  He sovereignly had folks not be able to meet with us, come off of our team, and decrease their giving in such a way as to make it abundantly clear that we should leave staff.  We are so thankful that folks like her didn’t get back to us.

So if you are reading this message and are sad that we are no longer on staff (effective Sept 2, but please continue donating through Nov 30), and you hold yourself partially responsible, stop it. God is the one who called us off staff.  Rejoice with us that He used you to do it.

If you want to be part of Him calling us to our next job, pass this link on to all of your friends: Resumé.  Or don’t.  Because either way, God’s gonna use you. :)

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Pat Robertson and I, the Temanites.

January 14, 2010

I just got done reading Job 4 and 5, and was struck by the parallels between Pat Robertson’s comments yesterday and Eliphaz the Temanite’s comments to Job. The major lesson? In the face of tragedy, responding with theological truisms (or conjecture) is not only insensitive, it’s the exact opposite of the Christian message, even if [...]

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Grading Parents might take more than Originality.

January 11, 2010

Lately a trend on the facebook is folks taking a quiz that grades their parents on originality in naming them.  The only metric (as far as I can tell) to factor into the grade is how many other folks were named what you are named during your birthyear.  Making it easy to simultaneously grade highly [...]

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The Terrifying thought of Christ-centered Laborers.

January 10, 2010

Thanks to the power of Twitter, and my ever-running search for “campus crusade” I saw this tweet yesterday: A terrifying description of the Campus Crusade for Christ Club: “We are here to help turn lost students into Christ-centered laborers.” —@gogocosmonaut To which I responded: you and I must have a different view of Christ. It’s [...]

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The Reason for God.

January 8, 2010

The Reason for God by Tim Keller is a must-read for anyone looking for a pastoral, thoughtful, and compelling defense of the Christian faith. I call it pastoral because, unlike some theological works (even those by such great minds as CS Lewis), this book doesn’t at any point talk down to it’s reader.  It is [...]

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Earth.

January 6, 2010

Have you seen the movie Earth?  It’s narrated by James Earl Jones, so that alone should convince you.  That man could read the labels on a tube of lipstick to me and I would pay attention. But the narrator is not why I’d suggest you go see Earth.  The movie is a fascinatingly well-done documentary [...]

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For those times when ONE blog isn’t enough…

December 22, 2009

For the next few weeks I’ll be manning the helm of not only this blog, but two (count ‘em) blogs for our winter conference.  I won’t be the only contributor, but I will have a significant amount of input and veto power over everything that appears on them. The first is a live blog of [...]

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Signing a Declaration? Really?

December 17, 2009

I followed a link today to www.IBelieve.com sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and was shocked to find this thinly guised signup for the BGEA and Christianity.com mailing lists: It’s sad, Franklin Graham, that you would be a part of this. The verse on the “declaration” is that our LIGHT would shine, not our [...]

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More verses I’ve never heard on "Christian" broadcasting.

December 14, 2009

This is the latest in a series.  To read the series from the beginning, click here. Romans 1:18 in combo with Romans 3:23 I’ll give it to Christian radio.  They might have actually played these as the “verse of the day.”  But I’ve never head it.  The first one says that the wrath of God [...]

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Tim Keller=Brainache.

December 11, 2009

I am absolutely loving the first of the two Keller books purchased recently.  I don’t know how any(genuinely seeking)one could read this book and remain ambivalent toward Christianity. More to come on this thought once I finish the book.

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