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Turning Thanksgiving Inside-out
America’s Thanksgiving seems to be mostly about food, family, football, parades and shopping. And sometimes gratitude manages to make a brief appearance. Growing up, my day began with watching the parades with fancy floats and Broadway samplers, then flipping to the Detroit Lions game. Mid-afternoon, a turkey and/or ham would be ready, along with three or four big casseroles, fruit salad, rolls and pumpkin pie.
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Are You Revolutionary?
"A quiet revolution is rocking the nation. The media are oblivious to it. Scholars are clueless about it...And Christian churches are only vaguely aware that something seems different, but they have little idea what its all about..." [George Barna Revolution pg. 9] The world is changing. Can you feel it? Maybe you are changing too.
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learning to fly
when i was much younger my mom and dad attempted to teach me to ride a bike. i had this really cool schwin apple crate bike, it was green with a white banana seat and butterfly handlebars with white grips and the red-white-and-blue streamers (which i yanked out after the first few days, too girly)…
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Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True (Part 1)
Suppose that you go to visit a person who does not know how to read English and is about to drink a bottle of iodine. Because of your compassion and natural love of life you feel obliged to stop him. To stop him without force, you will have to persuade him of two things. First, you must persuade him that iodine is poison and may kill him. You will amass your evidence: "Look, this mark on the label means, Don't drink it. It is made to put on the skin. Look here are the instructions. Take...
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I am FREE!
Jason Duncan talks about his family's transition out of 13 years of traditional ministry in institutional churches to a more organic church concept:
"As of midnight September 30...I AM FREE! No more institutional church. Please pray for Kristie and me (and our kids) as we "detox" for the next three months (or so). We want to follow God, relax, and rest in His presence..."
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A missional movement?
There have been some big numbers discussed these days regarding the contemporary house church movement. A recent study by a credible pollster and friend of the simple church expression has claimed that literally millions of people in North America are participating in "house churches" (i.e. simple church, organic church, etc.) . Taking in consideration several personal encounters, it just seems that a lot of lovers of God are simply dissatisfied and disillusioned (and in some cases ... Read More >> |
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Community and Confession
When I was a pastor, I taught a path of discipleship that involves daily confession with our mentors-student-friends. The walk of a disciple in discipleship relationships requires a level of honesty that is essentially total exposure. One night after a council meeting at the church I was pasturing, a council member said to me, in reference to the practice of daily confessing relationships, “ Brad, no one is going to do that”. I have thought about this statement many times. To me it is ... Read More >> |
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You Should Get Involved in Darfur
Today Emergent Village board member Brian McLaren joined the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land, the National Association of Evangelicals’ Ted Haggard, Rob Bell, Lauren Winner, and others in issuing a joint statement to President Bush urging him to take immediate action on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Join the Revolution!
