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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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How listening to Christian radio could be hurting you spiritually.

July 12, 2010

I’m a parent of a two year old, so I reserve the right to change my tune on this fact in the coming years, but it bothers me when Christian radio calls itself “safe for the whole family,” because though it may be easier, I don’t think it’s any more safe to listen to Christian [...]

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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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Ted Haggard and my Sinful Heart.

June 4, 2010

I’ll be honest, my first reaction when I see that Ted Haggard is starting a new church is bitter judgement. This isn’t a statement of whether or not he should be doing it, and I honestly don’t know. It is a statement of the fact that I am so quick to excuse my own moral flaws [...]

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Perspective check, 1…2…3?

May 20, 2010

I got three emails yesterday. 2 of them were people letting us know they are no longer able to partner with us financially–to the tune of -$125 per month. The other was from Piter. I was too busy wallowing in poor-me-land (or more accurately, trying to evaluate the situation to help to avoid wallowing there, [...]

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Gideon was a bit of a Taunter.

May 13, 2010

I just read Judges 7:1, and was pretty floored by the nickname that Gideon apparently embraces. The previous chapter translates the name Jerubbaal as “Let Baal contend with him.” Gideon had just destroyed a pagan altar to the god Baal. The modern day equivalent might be burning down a mosque and a whorehouse next door [...]

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Jesus Is Not On Your Team.

May 10, 2010

I have bad news. Jesus is not on your team. There are two teams, see. The bad guys, and Jesus. The crooked, depraved, self-serving, religious folks; and Jesus. He’s not on your team. He didn’t come for your agenda. You can’t recruit him to your cause. You can’t get him on board with your timeline [...]

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New Home. Just Like the Old Home.

April 26, 2010

In Scripture, Paul has a brilliant aside on the concept of “home” in 2 Corinthians 5:1-9. Basically, he makes the point that all of our temporary “homes” are just shadows and signs pointing toward our true home. The truth of the matter is that even this house (though we love it, and so far the [...]

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Ministry Partner Development.

April 20, 2010

We don’t like to call it fund raising. Not because we want to trick people or call it something that fools people out of their money, but because at the most foundational level, it’s not fund raising (though funds are a great byproduct). At the most foundational level, when I call someone to set up [...]

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ChronoSnobbery.

April 19, 2010

One of the most shocking things I encountered while reading Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity was the subtle assertion that Moses was a superstitious idiot. Or maybe he was throwing stones at Peter. The thesis of the book seems to be that Christianity needs to outgrow primitive ways of understanding God and the [...]

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