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{ Monthly Archives } July 2007

Grace - It’s Not About You Or Me

There is an interesting video on YouTube about “weighing in” after our lives are over. The video compares people’s thoughts and attitudes about justification and salvation. This video is well worth watching.
You can watch the video on YouTube here.
Thanks to Rick Ianniello for the tip.

Emerging Grace - A More Generous View

Emerging Grace offers a post titled “A More Generous View.” Grace offers 20 posters that well represent the heart of the emerging movement as I know it. The posters were created as a positive response to some over-the-top posters another site put out criticizing the emerging church movement.
Grace offers this introduction to the posters:
“I didn’t […]

Lives Of Quiet Desperation

Do you ever feel like you are just going through the motions? Do you ever look around you and wonder what keeps people going? Most people I know operate out of “resignation.”

They don’t like their jobs or their work
They don’t like much of their lifestyle
They generally feel as though they are missing something
They can’t wait […]

Something To Be

We tend to have a real preoccupation with our appearance. Some recent studies report that American’s spend around $1,000 per person on clothing each year. That number does not include all the other categories of personal care that consume our money. Now, I am not arguing that we do not need clothing; however, you don’t […]

Online Social Networking And Church

Online social networking may not be the first thought that comes to mind when you think of church, but maybe it should be. Churches are beginning to discover the power of online social networking to reach and disciple people into active followers of Jesus Christ. This is like the printing press all over again - […]

For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

According to the Apostle Paul, Jesus set us free for freedom.
“For freedom Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5.1 NRSV)
We were set free so that we could live free. Jesus did not die to set us free in order for us to sell ourselves back into bondage.
Paul continues on with this strong warning:
“Stand firm, therefore, […]

Free To Be What I’ve Become

We will be celebrating Independence Day this week here in the USA. Each July 4 we observe a national holiday to celebrate the day our nation’s founders formally declared independence from England.
Those early Americans took their new freedom very seriously. Read any early American documents and the pervasive fear of government is unmistakable. There were […]