From the monthly archives:

September 2005

Discipleship and Spiritual Formation. Difference?

by Rhett Smith on September 18, 2005

Christianity Today posts a beauty of a discussion regarding the difference between discipleship and spiritual formation. This discussion, with Dallas Willard and Richard Foster is great, and I believe they are articulating what many of us are thinking about, wondering about, and just have questions about, but are unable to articulate ourselves. Of course I [...]

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Black Eyed Sceva continued….

by Rhett Smith on September 16, 2005

Way Before The Blog All that is Black Eyed Sceva and good in this world……

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“What’s wrong with nihilism? In a culture of relativism know the context and the content and the consequence of being born again. God only knows my fate, anyway.”-black eyed sceva This post on this site has brought back a lot of memories. In 1995 I was standing in the cleared out sanctuary of a church [...]

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I was reading over at Tony Jones yesterday, and came across this idea of organic intellectuals, something that I did not know about before. One can learn plenty of new things at Tony’s site. The below was taken from this site. Organic Intellectuals This brings me to my second theme. Gramsci saw the role of [...]

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I Repent also…

by Rhett Smith on September 15, 2005

Good Stuff

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Donald Miller in CT

by Rhett Smith on September 15, 2005

As you know, author Donald Miller is coming out to our college ministry, The Quest in October. Here is an interview with him in Christianity Today. Finding God in Odd Places

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Bell and McClaren…..

by Rhett Smith on September 15, 2005

Veteran Youth Minister Tony Myles has a posting at his other site that is a “loose transcript” of a conversation he had with Rob Bell and Brian McClaren over breakfast during a Zondervan gathering.

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Compiling lists….

by Rhett Smith on September 14, 2005

Back in January, TIME Magazine compiled a list of The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. It was a controversial list in many ways, but I suppose that all depended upon where you were coming from, and what you determined to be influential. The list seemed to weigh heavily on the side of Conservative-Political-Evangelicals, with [...]

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One….I am counting down the days until all of my students return. Most of the schools are back in session, and though this is a year round ministry, I am super excited about having everyone back when UCLA returns to school. We will begin this Fall with a Welcome Back Worship Night on September 28 [...]

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The role of clergy in the online reformation….

by Rhett Smith on September 13, 2005

Will Samson is a great blogger. I love reading his blogs because I believe he writes about things that are a bit off the more usual trodden path of bloggers. And his blogs are usually calling attention to things that are not always that popular or hip in Christian evangelical circles, such as issues regarding [...]

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