April 2010
5 posts
Celebration-Worthy
London: "Jesus is alive! Give me a high five, dad."
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Prophecy & Water
I wonder if you’re like me on this: growing up listening to sermons, I heard a decent amount about prophecy. Enough, certainly, to know that a lot of Old Testament prophecies foretold certain things about Jesus and the church.
What I didn’t hear too much about was how most of those same prophecies also had meaning at the time they were spoken—a more literal, immediate...
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Cut And Paste
This past weekend, my sister introduced me to the YouTube phenomenon of recut movie trailers. Pretty funny stuff.
Check out You’ve Got Mail:
And here’s a reimagined Mary Poppins:
The first thing I thought when I saw these? People do this with the Bible all the time.
Combine a bunch of actual quotes from Scripture, some creativity, and a predetermined agenda, and...
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Want A Different Opinion Of Someone? Talk To Them.
Had a conversation yesterday with two people who had a decent reason to suspect me of a bad attitude in one particular area.
But instead of going with their limited evidence and making a decision about my character/motivation/etc., they…wait for it…called me.
Called me. And in a non-accusatory way, asked a couple of simple questions to hear things from my perspective. After that...
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What Kind Of Salt Should We Be?
You may or may not be tapped into it, but there’s been a big discussion going on for a while in certain circles about whether a church should be “attractional” or “missional.”
I’m probably not smart enough to know the answer.
But I do know this: every church had better be on a mission, and every church had better be attractive.
Live a lover’s life,...
