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1/15/2007
We Still Have a Dream
...even though evangelical Christians have failed miserably to move our nation away from racialization.

1/12/2007
Christian Community and Harley-Davidson
In their book, Living On Purpose: Finding God’s Best for Your Life, Christine and Tom Sine offer an excellent chapter entitled, “Seeking First the Kingdom in Community.”

1/09/2007
Praying Community Prayers vs. Just Individual Prayers
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven…”

12/20/2006
Shalom is a very practical thing
“The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.” (Psalm 29:11)

12/19/2006
Peace in place of Affliction, Storms, Despair
Reflection on “Peace” at Christmas (Isaiah 54 & 55)

 

12/16/2006
Praying for Our Troops during this Christmas Season...
...And that Our Nation Would Learn the Meaning of Peace.

12/11/2006
Light in the Darkness (Isaiah 8 & 9)

11/27/2006
The Good News of Jesus vs. the “good news” of Caesar

11/24/2006
Just in Time for Advent: The REAL Mary: The Mary We Never Knew from Scot McKnight

11/22/2006
Pray as You Go

11/21/2006
Benny Hinn - What a Great Guy

11/13/2006
“You are the salt of the earth.”
Those who embrace a Protective Social Action read that verse and primarily think of salt as being a preservative agent...

11/10/2006
My Response to Francis Beckwith about Ted Haggard

11/09/2006
Beyond Religious Trappings to Really Shining God’s Glorious Light (Isaiah 58)

11/08/2006
Two Ways to Look at the Ted Haggard Scandal

10/31/2006
More on Protective vs. Transformative Social Action

10/30/2006
Moving From Protective to Transformative Social Action

10/26/2006
FREE HUGS !
The Australian band Sick Puppies have a very popular video on You Tube

10/11/2006
What gets you through the hard times: reflection on my surgery

9/19/2006
Embracing Grace Interaction from Ted Gossard

9/17/2006
Osteen, Warren, and Prosperity
9/17/2006
The Nativity Story and Wondering About Mary - Scot McKnight's The Real Mary

9/11/2006
Five Years After 9/11 – What Christians Have NOT Learned
9/7/2006
Decision Making and Vocation

8/28/2006
Top 10 Signs That You're Obsessed with Bible Prophecy

8/21/2006
Kingdom Tension and Paradox: Loving the Kingdom more than the World, but Allowing the Kingdom to Transform the World

8/20/2006
Christian + University = ?

7/29/2006
Making the Most of College

7/28/2006
Francis Collins on the Relationship Between Science and Faith
7/28/2006
Sir John Houghton on the Relationship Between Science and Faith

7/27/2006
"A Tribute to Stanley Grenz" - Princeton Theological Review

7/20/2006
Incarnational Apologetics
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn, Part 3

7/17/2006
Interactions with a Self-Confessed Atheist

7/11/2006
Potentiality and the Image of God

7/15/2006
The Place for Evidence in a Postmodern World
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn, Part 2
7/12/2006
Apologetics and the Postmodern Turn
Part 1: Belief in the Existence of God
 

5/26/2006 - 6/24/2006

12 PART SERIES:

The Good News that Conquers Our Predicament (The Gospel of the Kingdom of God)
 

5/19/2006
Stan Grenz and How I Understand the Atonement
5/15/2006
Penal Substitution Revisited

4/19/2006
A Genuine Desire for Holiness - Reflections from the Edge of Death 3

4/11/2006
Jesus and the Four Cups of Passover, part 2
4/10/2006
Jesus and the Four Cups of Passover, part 1

4/7/2006
Pledging to Live in the Opportune Times - Reflections from the Edge of Death 2

4/3/2006
The Power of Prayer - Reflections from the Edge of Death 1

1/17/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: Emmanuel Kant in Modern Evangelicalism
1/13/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and John Piper
1/12/2006
Emerging Christian Ethics: "Greed is Good." Is it always?
1/11/2006
New Series: Emerging Christian Ethics

1/3/2006
The Top 10 Books I Read in 2005

12/31/2005
Somebody else's 2005 Book Awards (Byron Borger)
12/29/2005
Faith and Ethics

12/22/2005
Review of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"

12/20/2005
Mohler questions the "Happy Holidays" battle

12/10/2005
Resources on C. S. Lewis and Narnia
12/6/2005
What is the Function of Scripture?

12/5/2005
James Dobson Misses the Point (Again)

11/23/2005
Look! Up in the Sky! It's... the Messiah! Superman as a Christ Figure

11/7/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic-part 4: God with Us in the Incarnational Christian Community

11/3/2005
An Interesting Discussion on "Emmanuel Apologetic" Over at Reformissionary

11/2/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 3: The God Who Is Increasingly With Us
10/28/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 2: Apologetics Beyond Individualism

10/27/2005
An Emmanuel Apologetic -part 1:  Apologetics Beyond Reason

10/21/2005
Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us

10/4/2005
$1 a minute, and worth every cent--NOOMA® Trees from Rob Bell.

10/4/2005
Alcohol and Redemption
10/3/2005
Letting our theology trump the “literal interpretation” of the text

10/3/2005
Emerging Multi-Ethnic Ministry

9/27/2005
What the Bleep?

9/26/2005
Being Black and Reformed--Another Great Model on the Rise

9/15/2005
"Faith" and "Service" in the Wake of Katrina

8/1/2005
Kingdom of God: Victory and Liberation
7/30/2005
Kingdom of God article from Scot McKnight (pdf)
7/28/2005
Something is not right with the world

6/25/2005
The Books I Love
6/21/2005
Shalom is the Way it is Meant to Be

5/19/2005
Putting Theories of Atonement in Their Place
5/19/2005
What is Faith? Faith is not an adherence to a set of beliefs; faith is a trusting relationship with God.

5/16/2005

What is Sin? "Sin is not a breaking of commands; sin is a breaking of relationships."

5/14/2005
A Conversation between Joel and Linda about Eternity What will our future eternal life with God be like?

4/28/2005
Work in Progress (I need your help on writing "CREATED FOR GLORY")

4/18/2005
More on the Imago Dei and "The Purpose Driven Life"

4/12/2005
Thoughts on Intelligent Design and Darwinism

3/30/2005
Links of Interest Nowadays:

Bill Arnold at Poet in Motion has been running a series discussing N. T. Wright's somewhat controversial take on Biblical Authority.

3/25/2005
The Purpose Driven Life—Did Rick Warren Get it Right?

3/25/2005
Who Killed Jesus? Did the Jews?

3/21/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#1) Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God by Michael E. Wittmer

3/12/2005
Proposition or Love?
3/2/2005
Our Problem: Looking Righteous but not Acting Righteous
3/2/2005
The Gospel of HEARTS, MINDS, MOUTHS, and HANDS
2/21/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#3)  Creation & New Creation in the New Testament by N.T. Wright
2/12/2005
Two New Lists --  Getting Rid of BAD Discipleship Paradigms
2/7/2005
Beginner’s Guide to Worldview Jargon
1/31/2005
Imago Dei - The Image of God in Man
1/31/2005
"Why Sing a Song?" Check out what Bill Arnold wrote about living the Christian life right here and now
1/27/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#4)  - Finding Faith by Brian McLaren
1/18/2005
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (A Conference from Evangelicals for Social Action)
1/13/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#5) - The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myer
1/10/2005
Green Ears, a Bow Tie, and an Inerrant Bible
1/8/2005
Theological Responses to the Tsunami Tragedy
11/16/2004
N. T. Wright on Redemption: (Redemption is not just making life in creation a little bit better or a matter of rescuing spirits and souls from the evil of a material world...)
11/15/2004
Knowing the "Right Answers" does not mean you "Believe" them (a quote from Dallas Willard)
11/14/2004
Am I an Environmental Wacko?
8/23/2004
My recent conversation with a guy I met in a laundromat about The Da Vinci Code (apologetics)
7/15/2004
Incarnation: The Body of Christ Humbly Serving Others
7/11/2004
Consumer Christianity
 

               

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