From the monthly archives:

January 2005

I came across Time Magazine’s story on the The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America as I was surfing through the blogosphere. Of course, who else is going to bring you the news before anyone else? Not the Main Stream Media! Evangelical Outpost had posted his own list of Know Your Evangelicals months ago and [...]

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Check out their latest video for promoting our Mammoth Ski Trip. Napoleon Dynamite Goes to Mammoth

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This is not your typical movie review, but rather some spiritual observations that came to mind as I was invited as part of a group of pastors to pre-screen the movie Constantine before its release date. (This would not have happened to me when I was living in Arizona). While watching the movie I was [...]

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sweet! Napoleon Dynamite

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This is why I blog……

by Rhett Smith on January 28, 2005

Some of you may still be asking yourself, “What is a blog?” Well, I think it’s about time you find out because it’s an important tool for the church. And it’s an ever increasing tool for our ministry. Check out best selling author and nationally syndicated talk show host, Hugh Hewitt link and describe my [...]

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Sex and the Early Church

by Rhett Smith on January 28, 2005

As I mentioned Wednesday night, a lot of our Christian and religious beliefs within the Church, regarding sexuality, have been negatively shaped by the influence of some of our early church fathers such as St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Though these men contributed amazing things to the Church and it’s theology, they were not perfect [...]

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Sex: Part 1/ Sex, Christianity and Culture

by Rhett Smith on January 27, 2005

Last night I began my four part series dealing with the issue of sex, Christianity and culture. In short, it is a series looking at what the Bible has to say about sex, and how culture, for the most part, has very differing opinions. In this series I want to challenge all of you to [...]

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The identity of Christian Men?

by Rhett Smith on January 24, 2005

It seems that everywhere I read these days Christian men are going through an identity crisis. Is this crisis subtle? Well, that depends on whether or not you have been paying attention to secular and church culture. Rather, it seems the crisis has been brewing for a long time and has begun to find voices [...]

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I just spent the last week on vacation in Costa Rica. And though I was not tempted to find the nearest internet cafe and check the news and blog, I did miss perusing through the blogosphere. For some unbeknownst reason that I can’t comprehend, I have grown a fondness to checking in on all the [...]

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My blog on a little hiatus….

by Rhett Smith on January 12, 2005

I will be on vacation this next week….so my blog may have little or no activity…but there’s plenty for you to go back and read…. Check out the other bloggers on my page, and catch up with what’s going on with the theological-pastoral bloggers, and in the “emergent”/postmodern conversation.

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