Atheism and Creative Love Theism

“Killing God?!” I received many warnings from concerned Christians about the movie The Golden Compass. I was warned to avoid the movie because the author of the books it was based on was an atheist and the goal of his books was killing God. I rarely take these type of forwarded emails seriously but decided [...]

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Missional Evangelism

Much of modern evangelism in the 20th century was structured around presenting the “gospel in a nutshell” to strangers on the street, asking leading questions about whether that person thinks they will go to heaven when they die and then presenting a formula to answer that question for them; as if the gospel is only [...]

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Reimagining Church and Life

Have you ever read something and you just keep nodding your head, and saying to yourself, “Yeah, that makes sense”? I find that some writers are more persuasive than others and while initially I may agree with what I read, upon further contemplation and critical thinking I may change my mind. But how does one [...]

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Friends – Facebook, MySpace, or Friend Of …

I’ve been reading Frank Viola’s blog and recent book, “Reimaging Church” and have been enjoying both. Frank recently blogged asking, “What’s the deal with friends?” Here’s a stamp I created in response to Frank’s Christmas wish:
I’m enjoying connecting with people on blogs and MySpace and Facebook, but I wonder if we are cheapening friendship [...]

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Missional Evangelism

This weekend I am helping out at a Conversational Evangelism Conference while I am in the midst of studying things missional and have some questions for those interested in the missional conversation. The context of my questions is the ambiguity and variability of the usage of the term missional these days. Here’s the questions:

Do missional [...]

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