[be sure and read Part One before reading the following...] Bell quotes a man giving a lecture on creation. At one point, the man says, “If you don’t believe that God created the world in six literal twenty-four hour days, then you are denying that Jesus ever died on the cross.” It’s a bizarre leap [...]
James and I are reading Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis. In the introduction, Bell raises some interesting metaphors. Take, for instance, the trampoline. To Bell, the Christian faith is akin to a trampoline, held together by its many springs. With a trampoline, you really don’t see the need for springs until you begin to jump. Although [...]
My goal was simple: ten things to NOT do… reflecting back, here’s a postmortem of the week. 1. I didn’t see Jess and the gang in the new Dukes movie. However, I DID get suckered into seeing March of the Penguins…ugh. Seriously, I have Discovery Channel at home, why am I here? Because Valiant sold [...]
School starts August 16, and I’m going to hibernate. Find a cave somewhere where I can regain my voice. After a summer tour of Laguna Beach, hurricanes, shark attacks, middle school camp, Mexico, and a truckload of other stuff….I’m headed for 7 fun-filled days and nights of…nothing. We’re definitely going to spend a couple of [...]
This has been ‘one of those weeks’. Early in the week the AC in our house went out. Over the weekend, someone busted the window out of one of our cars (tried to steal the radio, I guess). Yesterday, the AC in the other car went out. And then there’s the busyness of playing catch-up [...]
I survived the summer tour of Panama Beach, Middle School Camp, Mexico, and other random tests of endurance and sanity….anyone ready for school yet?
Now that my summer ‘tour’ is pretty much over and the dust is settling, I can begin to blog regularly again… This morning I’ve pondered posting several things. However, perhaps most important to the conversation (at least, today) is the following excerpt from begin with grey. Every argument can be turned back into a conversation [...]
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.
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’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?” [...]