Archive for July, 2005
Saturday, July 16th, 2005
I Am Gay-Friendly
Funny how this stuff works.
I am in a continuing dialogue about how we as Christ Followers are supposed to treat ’sinners’ (unbelievers), specifically homosexuals. I ran across this article this morning from martyduren’s blog. (thanks, marty!)
http://www.bpnews.net/bpfeature.asp?ID=1890
Good thoughts.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
My Personal Scorpion of Sin
There once was a very old tale, written long ago. It can be traced back to ancient Sanskrit, written by a royal scholar named Bidpai. Remember?
A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river.
“Are you mad?” asked the turtle, “you’ll sting me and I’ll drown.”
My [...]
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Foolishness to the Greeks #1
I’ve begun another chapter in the never-ending discussion of Christ and culture over in the Emerging Leaders Forum and thought I’d post some comments here as well. We are reading Newbigin’s ‘Foolishness to the Greeks’, which begins propositionally with the question “What would be involved in a missionary encounter between the gospel and Western culture?”
As [...]
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Los Días Locos del Verano
[i.e. 'The Crazy Days of Summer' para sus gringos!]
Just a friendly note to those of you who keep an eye here from time to time. This month (July) will be insanely crazy: middle school camp, mexico mission trip, church activities, and getting back on the horse of my nutrition/exercise regime.
I will try to post a [...]