Columns // Jesus (Re)Centered2
Some time ago I started reading Leonard Sweet’s book, Viral: How Social Networking is Poised to Ignite Revival. The final chapter in the book was short, but powerful. Entitled, Infectious Faith, Len laid out how the TGIF generation (Twitter, Google,…Read More→
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‘We know where God is, we do not know where he is not.’ What a liberating and informative statement about God’s nature and activity in the world. And yet, so many have interpreted God’s presence in abstract ways, detaching God…Read More→
Columns // Jesus (Re)Centered2
Many Christians view the call to follow Jesus as some kind of out-of-body, other-worldly affair that shouldn’t occupy itself with this-worldly concerns. The Christian life is largely arranged around the concept of escape – we will one day leave this…Read More→
Columns // Jesus (Re)Centered2
I was raised in a non-liturgically based Christian denomination and have since spent the vast majority of my adult life in a Pentecostal/Charismatic context. Suffice it to say, I was not well-versed in church liturgy. At least not in the…Read More→
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Could the numerical growth some church congregations experience after adopting an entertainment style of church worship be attributed to our cultural fascination with and subsequent accommodation to the entertainment industry more than anything else? If such is the case, we…Read More→
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When we understand that the Jesus-story is the long-awaited fulfillment of Israel’s story, our faith immediately takes on an ancient, prophetic, and shared dimension. We need to quickly realize that faith didn’t begin with us. This is the faith that…Read More→