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Prodigal Christianity

Prodigal Christianity: 10 Signposts into the Missional Frontier Description: Prodigal Christianity offers a down-to-earth, accessible, and yet provocative understanding of God’s mission of redemption in the world, and how followers of Christ can participate in this work. It speaks into the discontent of all those who have exhausted conservative, liberal, and even emergent ways of being Christian and […]

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Don’t Look Away; Look Deeper: #Ferguson

It has only been a week since the grand jury in Ferguson returned the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, but it has felt much longer than that. I’ve been shooting these articles and posts out on Twitter and Facebook over the last couple of days, but for my own sake of remembering and in […]

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Grieving For Ferguson and Beyond

I’m in information overload about Ferguson right now. I can’t sort out my thoughts, which is rare, but I have an overriding feeling: GRIEF

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The Human Side of Prayer (along with Tim Keller)

I came across this on twitter and it caught my eye and made me think. Failure to pray is not merely breaking some religious rule. It is really a failure to treat God as God. — Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) October 26, 2014 What do you think? As a Reformed pastor and theologian I know Keller […]

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Deeper Than We Thought (3): Drug War Myths

  Post One and Two (This just happened: While writing this post on The New Jim Crow at a coffee shop an African American man asks me about the book and then tells me that he advised his son NOT to bring his car to college because the dad was worried his son would be arrested in […]

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Where I’ve Come From/Where I’m Going (Same Call & New Job)

(Picture of Santa Cruz, CA, where I went to college and met my wife, Cyd.) I don’t usually talk much about my day to day life on this blog. Usually is it more about what I’m reading or thinking or seeing in the church/culture more broadly. But I have had some big changes of late. […]

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A Modest Plea for Coaches to Stay Pastors

When God called me to be a pastor I resolved I would never view the pastorate as a career ladder to be climbed. Growing up I had seen and heard people talk about how some youth pastor had now become an associate pastor, with the implication being that someday he would be a senior pastor.  […]

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Are You Scared, Confused, Intimidated by Evangelism?

Aren’t we all? Is our imagination trapped by bad stereotypes of “evangelists”?   If you resonate with any of this then please come to this years Missional Learning Commons on “Evangelism and the Missional Church”, NOV. 7-8 (Chicago, IL).  FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SESSIONS: THE CONTEXT OF EVANGELISM James Chambers  (InterVarsity) Join us for an extended conversation and challenge to […]

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Deeper Than We Thought (2): The Colorblind Racism

  Those brought forcibly to America for slavery are now forcibly carried away through imprisonment. Colorblind Racism Two weeks ago I talked about how in my journey of sanctification I seem to be really working only on two or so deeply ingrained sins that seem to keep popping up in different ways. Just when I think […]

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Deeper than We Thought (1): Our Society’s Sin

The Journey of Redemption  I’ve found in my journey of redemption that I don’t necessary sin egregiously in every category. Rather I’ve found I often keep struggling with the same two or three sins that seem to go all the way down to my core. Every time I think I’m done with that sin God will gently […]