Category: The Theological
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All We Grow (Jeremiah 2:4-13)
This is the message I gave on Sunday. Opening_ What are we growing? Theres a new album that recently came out titled All We Grow, by S. Carey. While I actually really like the music on the album, I found the title to be compelling enough. The first time I heard the phrase All We…
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The Testimony of Witness
This is my sermon from Sunday. If you’d like a little background to this, you can check out yesterday’s post “In Search of a New Frame for Evangelism and Mission.” This is my attempt at an initial response to the questions I raised there.
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In Search of a New Framework for Evangelism and Mission
One of the things I have become fascinated with over the course of the last decade falls broadly under the umbrella known as missiology, or the study of Christian missions. I like many of you have a history with big E Evangelicalism where mission is generally understood as winning souls for Christ. Evangelism and mission…
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Those It Is Acceptable to Hate
This summer some of us from our church meet every other week to discuss a query dealing with some issue related to things happening around the world. A few weeks back we talked about a query dealing with the oil spill and how it is or is not affecting us, and our larger society. We…
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There is No Pure Christianity
A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all syncretist. And I agree with this point, all Christianity today is influenced to a smaller or larger extent by outside forces. I’m not sure it’s ever been any different to tell the truth.…