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What is the Bible Primarily About?

Saw this video over at Zack’s place. Like him, I have been floored by reading the Bible through this lens. The Old Testament is an Easter egg hunt that has been so loaded with eggs it’s unfair. Once you start to see the Bible in this way, it’s pretty awesome. Please take a few minutes and let Tim Keller blow your mind, and like Zack said, if your pastor is not giving you this kind of stuff on a regular basis, kick him in the hind-parts.

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Dear American Christianity: Part Three

June 23, 2010

It’s not up to your pastor for you to grow spiritually. In our church-hopping, nobody’s-the-boss-of-me American culture, it can be easy to fall for this. You go to a church because you like the teaching, or the music, or the approximate average age of the folks in attendance. And you treat it like you would [...]

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Dear American Christianity: Part Two.

June 21, 2010

(to the pastors) If the congregation is not generous, it may be because you* aren’t sharing the gospel with them. A biblical way to motivate people to give is to repeatedly show them how much they’ve been given, and how great the needs are elsewhere. A person who understands the gospel, that Jesus Paid it [...]

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Dear American Christianity: Part One.

June 17, 2010

If you’d* all give money to your church, pastors and others on staff there wouldn’t need to be bi-vocational to feed their family. 9% of North Americans who classify themselves as “born again” tithed in 2004. We spend more as a culture on weight-loss programs or pet food than we give to the church. (source) If [...]

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If You have Nothing to Hide, Hide Nothing: a look at the financial transparency of Christian organizations.

June 15, 2010

Does transparency matter? Not according to the likes of Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and TD Jakes. I spent some time recently on a the website of a ministry called MinstryWatch.com (the online database component of Wall Watchers) to see, among other things, how Campus Crusade for Christ (the ministry my wife [...]

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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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Negative, Downbeat, Discouraging Verse of the day.

November 10, 2009

I started yesterday with Nahum 3:5-6 Today we’ll keep it in the Old Testament with another seemingly non-uplifting verse: Exodus 22:22-24There are tons of these types of verses in the books of the law that are never going to see time in a top ten list of encouraging verses. But they should. The encouraging thing [...]

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"Negative, Depressing, and Discouraging" Verse of the Day.

November 9, 2009

One of the reasons I can’t get wholly behind Christian radio is that they often whitewash the troubling doctrines and the tough-to-swallow parts about Christianity, when they could be contextualizing those difficult doctrines and glorifying God for them. By taking verses like Philippians 4:13 out of their horrific context (the reason you can do all [...]

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Lessons from Stan.

September 14, 2009

The guy next to me on the stationary bike could have made a career out of competitive sweating. I’m not too shabby when it comes to perspiration, but this guy made it an art form. I had turned to him and made small talk, trying to distract myself from the intense pain in my legs. [...]

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Enjoying a lazy Saturday afternoon.

August 30, 2008

Jacqueline has gone to the Goodwill to procure some deals on clothing, little man is asleep in the other room, and I am having a glorious saturday afternoon, wishing I had a way to watch some college football. But in the quietness I am confronted with my inability to rest. I just listened to the [...]

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