We talk a lot about the “conversion process” as Christians, but it seems Christ spends just as much time talking about following Him and how that would look. Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For [...]
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“Becoming De-Westernized”
Here is an article that I found on another blog recently. This is only the introduction, but I think it brings out some good questions and thoughts about how we live our faith, and whether we’ve allowed other extra-biblical things into our faith, that we sometimes expect of other believers of different cultural backgrounds or [...]
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Competition for your attention
There is so much competing for your attention on a daily basis. So much information is bombarding us daily. Did you know that during this year, over $1000 will be spent to market directly to you? And if you wanted to keep track of all of the new items that are being added to grocery [...]
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Commercials today – how the world gives us their message
Commercials, commercials, commercials. You can’t watch a TV show without seeing them. Since TVs became commercially avaliable in the late 1930s*, they have become a fixture in the American home. And over the years, what is on TV has changed greatly as have the advertisements show during them. Why have they spent so much time [...]
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a quote that caught my mind
I’ve been slowly reading a book* entitled, Why We’re Not Emergent By Two Guys Who Should Be, and I came across an interesting quote. While I’m almost certainly taking out of the context of disproving the validity of the emergent church, here it is anyway: In the music scene it’s really cool to search for [...]
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evangelistic methods after modernity (part 1)
During my final semester at Moody (www.moody.edu), as I completed my degree in Evangelism and Discipleship, I had to write a final paper to culminate my learning. I used this as an opportunity to examine some of how our culture is changing and how we are sharing the gospel/evangelizing/sharing the good news/telling our personal faith [...]
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Noise in the night – an uninvited guest
Tonight as my wife and I were trying to fall asleep, we heard voices out in the dark alley behind our apartment. My response to this was threefold. First, I didn’t really notice it. But I gradually started noticing it more. Then I thought about turning on a fan to avoid hearing their voices and [...]