From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Fascinating….

by Rhett Smith on January 31, 2006

Andrew Jones has the most fascinating post of the week: Driscoll and McLaren and the Six Degrees of Separation from Matthew Fox

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Traveling the world by blog…..

by Rhett Smith on January 31, 2006

Oh how I wish I could read German right now, especially when one of the few words I can read is Bonhoeffer. There have been thousands of times, especially since I first started in seminary, that I wish I could read German. What a treat that would be to be able to read some of [...]

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Bolsinger on Barna….

by Rhett Smith on January 31, 2006

Tod Bolsinger has some great posts on George Barna’s new book Revolution. His post today on Trinity, Community and Church is a great one. Bolsinger says: Since God is a Trinity, the essence of God is loving relationship, best understood as Communion. Therefore, the essence of humanity, as God’s creation, is also relationship. This can [...]

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Drew’s lunch with the Barna Group…

by Rhett Smith on January 30, 2006

Drew has lunch with the Barna Group today, and in the process of digesting the interaction David asks, “What if we, as the church, have gotten really good about drawing people into our weekend church services? What if we have gotten really good about engaging them in worship, teaching, and fellowship during these weekend services? [...]

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Inviting Jesus into our presence/place….really?

by Rhett Smith on January 30, 2006

My friend Drew Sams has a great post titled, How Dare We Invite Jesus Into This Place. Here’s a sample: So, the question came up in class, “How often do we in our prayers and in our conversations invite Jesus into a situation or a place?” I mean, when you think about it, we do [...]

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Chris Gonzalez, a friend of mine, and college pastor in Arizona, has a good post about Community Killers. I haven’t thought too much on that topic Chris, but I like what you have to say. I will be thinking about these things when I am with my group. I think that one of the best [...]

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Ongoing debate….

by Rhett Smith on January 30, 2006

Brian McClaren and Mark Driscoll have been debating a pastoral response to homosexuality

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I have been thinking a lot about the recent, and ongoing comments from the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And it is somewhat shocking to me the lack of alarm or attention it is getting in most of the main stream media. I am no scholar on Hitler or his rise to power in Germany, [...]

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Pope warns about loveless sex “Eros, reduced to pure ‘sex’ has become a commodity, a mere ‘thing’ to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself has become a commodity.” “Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: no longer is it integrated into our overall existential freedom; no longer is [...]

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Self-Care: Jethro and Moses, and the Sabbath Rhythm.

by Rhett Smith on January 25, 2006

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you and and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone……….So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.” I was [...]

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