From the monthly archives:

December 2004

In the latest issue of Christianity Today, renowed theologian All Sins Are Equal and I would be interested to hear your feeback and dialogue on this issue.  I was having trouble linking the article:  Here it is, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/001/19.65.html

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“So if the difference between Christian faith and all other forms of spirituality is that Christian faith offers a relational dynamic with God, why are we cloaking this relational dynamic in formulas?” (Donald Miller in Searching For God Knows What) Anytime a student comes and meets with me, and makes the statements, "I am having [...]

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The Christmas Season As A Time To Shift Paradigms

by Rhett Smith on December 25, 2004

Every year another Christmas passes, one celebration after another, with little change.  After all, Christmas is a holiday, filled with tradition, hardly a time for things to change, or new thinking to take place.  We go to church on Christmas Eve, we sing the same songs, we light the candles, to Silent Night of course, [...]

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It doesn’t take one long to figure out that we are people that like to live within certain boundaries. And here I am speaking of the boundaries of a start and finish. We enjoy starting, heading out into something new, and we look forward to finishing the course or task that we have set out [...]

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The Holiday Spirit:Consumerism and Christianity

by Rhett Smith on December 20, 2004

Something quite doesn’t seem right this year at Christmas. I mean, it’s supposed to be the happiest time of the year, right. Well, everything doesn’t seem right, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, until I found myself sitting in traffic all day, as I drove around shopping for Christmas gifts. You would [...]

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Tony Campolo

by Rhett Smith on December 17, 2004

So, if you didn’t attend the 9am or 11am services at Bel Air yesterday (Oct. 24th), then you missed one of the great voices in evangelical Christianity. You may also not know that you also missed one of the most controversial voices in evangelical Christianity as well. Tony Campolo Tony Campolofor decades has been a [...]

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Deciding to write a blog on sex was purely a cheap and easy marketing ploy to get more readership. Selling sex seems to be working for everyone else, so why not try it to get more readers on The Quest website. In fact, before this blog was completed we had to go through an image/photo [...]

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That is the question that I have been asking myself ever since I asked our web designer Jared if I could have a blog, and then was presented with the daunting task of writing what was supposed to be daily or weekly entries, but have instead settled for monthly. And now, months later, I have [...]

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