Do you recognize this guy? No he is not the guy who was asking you for spare change last week on your way to work, he is Shane Claiborne. Claiborne is a young Evangelical leader involved in monastic movements and helping Christians think more holistically about their faith, this includes not being lock step with [...]
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I could have just emailed this to Ryan. But I was so geeked out. 3rd quarter highlights.
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Even Matt is somewhat ambivalent to when I write about the Chicago Bulls, but right now I don’t care. Because after one of the most disappointing seasons in recent memory, the Bulls drafted Derrick Rose.
A couple of weeks before the draft I was daydreaming while talking to Matt about any unlikely situation in which the [...]
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From his article in today’s Las Vegas Sun, thanking the people who made the trip to Australia possible:
When I was a little kid, I never would have guessed that I would be taking a tour of Australia to play basketball. I would like to thank God before anyone else because without him nothing is possible.
After [...]
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Well since Mark Driscoll stepped down as lead pastor at Mars Hill he has gone into overdrive with his teaching and writing, in his role as preaching pastor at Mars Hill. I wish I could manage even half of the productivity that this guy does. Well in the course of this year Driscoll is set [...]
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Has teen pregnancy become chic? Well Jamie Lynn Spears just had her baby the other day and the movie Juno, which was a massive hit, conveyed a nonchalant attitude toward teen sex and pregnancy, and now we have a cluster of high school girls making a pact to all get pregnant. So what is going [...]
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I am taking an intensive Old Testament preaching class for the next two weeks. Taking a preaching class thats designed for a whole semester in two weeks is quite challenging. For example, on Monday the first day of class we were given our first passage to preach and I was assigned to preach it today. [...]
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It has been incredible that in the last few years the Church seems to be waking up that worship is more than songs and hymns. Maybe this is the fruit of the “worship wars” in which many died on the hill of preference of music style, thinking they were standing on solid biblical grounds.
The fullest [...]
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There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less…No man is better for knowing that God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth. The devil knows that, [...]
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Well, because, for a while there, I thought I was. Or at least the Mark Driscoll of Vegas. See the problem was, like most young church ministry men, I thought that I had to be a driven, type-A, over the top capital D “dude.” I am not that dude.
I am a walking contradiction. Two people [...]
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