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Monday, November 13th, 2006Sounds like Elton John needs to meet a different breed of Christian. “From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.” More.
A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Maybe Judah should start reading the New York Times, which reports this about speaking in tongues: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took brain images of five women while they spoke in tongues …. “The amazing thing was how the images supported people’s interpretation of what was happening,†said Dr. Andrew B. Newberg, leader of [...]
The Haggard Truth
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Leadership Journal’s blog “Out of Ur” offers sobering insight from Gordon MacDonald, himself a survivor of scandal, on the Ted Haggard story. On TH’s personal struggles: This deeper person … can be the source of attitudes and behaviors we normally stand against in our conscious being. But it seeks to destroy us and masses energies [...]
Help from the blogosphere
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006In response to this, a reader emailed me the following (reprinted with permission). I’m posting our email exchange with the hope that some of you will weigh in. I just read your post “sometimes I feel like this widow” on Away With Words. I was wondering if I could ask you a question…. Everytime I [...]
Another Chapter in the Judah Chronicles
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006It’s been a while since I wrote about my son, so here’s a story from this week. Tuesday night before bed, Judah prayed that I “wouldn’t be fired.” (Where he learned about being fired I’m not sure.) When I asked him what he meant, he thought for a second and said: “Well, I guess you [...]
Daily meditation
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Simple lyrics, yet profound, from Newsboys, “I am Free”: Through you the blind will see Through you the mute will sing Through you the dead will rise Through you our hearts will praise Through you the darkness flees Through you my heart screams I am free I am free Chorus: (2x’s) I am free to [...]
Sometimes I feel like this widow
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me [...]
Musings from the Mountaintop
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Sometimes I wonder why Jesus took time to get alone with the Father. Then I have an experience like I had earlier this week and I stop wondering. Something special happens when you make the time to pull away from the hustle and bustle of life and pray beyond routine and tradition and ritual. Disquieted [...]
Doing Church "in the Margins"
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006I love how Edgeworth Church defines its commitment to justice: If God’s purpose in redemption is not simply to save individuals out of the world, but to renew and restore His creation, His people should be concerned about individual souls and bringing justice to the places they live. For us this means a big-time commitment [...]
The other (1) John 3:16
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Who hasn’t seen the ubiquitous John 3:16 signs at sporting events and on tracts around the country? But how many times do we see 1 John 3:16 broadcast? “This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow [...]
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