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Archive for March, 2009
Mere Christians
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Barna calls them “revolutionaries.” A friend of mine prefers “Jesus follower.” Your pastor might call them partially apostate. Whatever the label, there is a rising tide of Evangelicals who are pulling out of the institutional structures that have defined what it has meant to be born-again over the past few decades. [...]
Posted in Personal Reflection | No Comments »>The Question
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
When the crowd is gone, and it’s just me and a couple of pastors (usually the senior pastor and the missions pastor) standing around talking after a meeting or service I often get asked, ‘The Question.’ I was just asked ‘The Question’ about three weeks while I was in Minnesota (to be fair, it [...]
Posted in Missions Inc. | No Comments »>The Coming Evangelical Missions Meltdown… or?
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Michael Spencer is, I am sure, getting lots of traffic to his blog these days over a recent article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” The article appear on the Christian Science Monitor and got mac-daddy exposure on The Drudgereport.
The basic premise of this article is that Evangelicalism, because of its ascendence into a [...]
Echso-Text: 22 Christian Families Executed in Afghanistan
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and [...]
Posted in Missions Inc., Orgs and Movements | 10 Comments »>22 Christians Martyred in Afghanistan SMS Hoax
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
If you get this SMS – it is a hoax. You can see the next thread for the discussion.
It would be interesting to study just how this particular message was, evidently, spread so quickly across the internet. I got it personally, and I know many others who did as well.
If anybody has any [...]
