Year 2007

Loving your enemy

Can you take it too far? A group of Baptist churches in Australia post “Jesus Loves Osama” banners on their buildings, and the Australian Prime Minister gets involved. PM John Howard said, “I understand the Christian motivation of the Baptist…

NFL breaks up church Super Bowl party

Try this one on for size over at churchrelevance.com: the NFL says NO to a church’s Super Bowl Party. Hmmm.. Is your church’s Sunday evening gathering illegal also? And will you change things to be in conformity to the rules?…

What the mess is RSS?

For those of you wondering what the big deal about is, then you need to go to Shawn’s excellent entry. Here are some other quick sources for your perusal: Trudy Shcuett @ about.com Great, basic article over at PressFeed Last,…

Experience vs. obedience

Alrighty! Let’s talk about the theology of scriptural authority for a moment. If you find your head drooping at this point, please click over to MonticelloLive or maybe even Engadget. I’d hate to be the guilty party that causes you…

Churches thinking inward…

What a great quote: Churches tend to primarily raise leaders to serve the internal needs of the church, rather than towards leading/developing others toward mission. Snatched it from goodmanson.com and his continuing reflections on the GCA Conference.

Concubines allowed?!

You ever realized that you’ve just missed a great conference? When Ed Stetzer at the GCA Conference says this in a presentation, you know you should have been there: “There is more evidence from scripture for me to go out…

Lesser posts win the day…

Of all the posting I do here, (and some I used to feel were pretty significant), it’s a little depressing that my comments about the Razorbacks get the most hits… Sigh.

Out of control disciple

With all the posting on discipleship lately, I thought it would be appropriate to post Leonard Sweet’s rendition of his “Out of Control Disciple.” See it here.