I’ll be taking an Easter Week hiatus from all things internet (blogging, FB, and twitter).
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It is often claimed that the missional church might be loosing the high standard of expository preaching. And often we don’t exactly help to clarify this when we rail against individualized, overly rationalistic, disembodied information dumps which masquerade as the worst of expository preaching (love ya Dave). And when we claim that interpretation is a […]
Last week I was in LA at the Wesleyan Philsophical Society. I presented a paper on “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money.” The abstract is below and then after the break is the paper. If you are interested then you should definitely also check out Jason A. Coker’s post on a similar topic: The […]
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Glenn Beck attacked Me, by name…
Sin is nothing masquerading as something. Sin merely preys on something, on anything, but itself it is nothing. Sin produces desire for what doesn’t exist. It takes what is good, adds NOTHING to it, nothing but disordered desire, and, BAM, now there is something new, something disfigured and ugly. Wanton desires warp creation (what is […]
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Missional Church…simple
I want to add to the reflections offered by Rozko, Hiestand, Sternke, Hart, Briggs, Fitch, Chandler, and others on the Ecclesia National Gathering. They have already offered great summaries, but I want to add my impression. My over all impression is that while disappointed with the church, most there had yet become cynical. It seemed […]
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let this not be my life…
I’ve seen a Dying Eye Run round and round a Room— In serach of Something—as it seemed— Then Cloudier become— And then—obscure with Fog— And then—be soldered down Without disclosing what it be ‘Twere blessed to have seen— (#547, Emily Dickinson) I haven’t died yet; but I’ve died thousands of times. Sometimes to addictions. Sometimes […]