This is a look at the second temptation of Jesus from Eugene Peterson¢â‚¬â„¢s new book, The Jesus Way: The second temptation: jump off the roof of the temple. The devil wants to use Jesus to dazzle the crowds of people on the street below with a...
This is the opening paragraph that comes from Mission Network News: It’s called H.R. 1592. It’s a bill in the United States House of Representatives that would extend special protections to homosexuals as hate crime victims. The bill has...
The sixth principle from the Made to Stick is also the first principle that professional communication coach, Lynn Scarborough, says was part of Jesus¢â‚¬â„¢ communication style.‚ That principle is stories.‚ Stories work because they touch people...
This is a video with R.C. Sproul, Al Mohler, and Ravi Zacharias discussing post-modernism, modernism, liberalism, and the emergent church. The question is asked, Is there any real difference among the four? I’ll reserve my comments for later...
Russell Bishop at the Huffington Post, in a recent article, believes that we are in line for a spiritual awakening. His article, “7 Signs We Are Becoming More Spiritually Focused“, gives a list, albeit incomplete, of 7 signs that show we...
Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia is a new book from Intervarsity Press. In the book, the authors look at seventeen inspiring people hoping to introduce the pivotal Christian leaders in Africa and Asia who had tenacious...
Success is not following the consuming way, but the Jesus way. As a result, our measure of success should be an expression of people being conformed to the image of Christ, obeying the Gospel, and living the crucified life that is an expression of...
MIROR Churches understand that theology is organic.
In this short RSA Animate, philosopher Slavoj Zizek criticizes charity and what he calls “cultural capitalism”¢â‚¬”think TOMS shoes or Fair Trade coffee¢â‚¬”as remedies that only perpetuate an immoral economic system. Very provocative...