From the monthly archives:
One of the challenges of being a pastor, or teacher, or someone who speaks in front of a large group is to figure out how to best engage everyone in that event. This includes whether one is preaching, or teaching, or lecturing. So for example, when you preach, how do you engage the whole audience, [...]
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Here is a great post on four different ways to look at one’s university. Chris, who really is passionate about college ministry, recently used an issue on the campus of Arizona State University to think of how a student views one’s university. Despise…Use…Become…Love
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Congrats to Tod Bolsinger who completed the Ironman Canada in a time of 14:06:10. He did the 2.4 mile swim in a time of 1:25:20. He did the 112 mile bike in 6:48:17. And the 26.2 mile run in 5:34:01. And add some transition time…Wow! Nice work Tod. What a way to finish up your [...]
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Scot McKnight has a great post on The Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism. Scot predicts: What I can’t understand is why people want to go there: its history is predictable. Though I’m no prophet, this is what I think might occur: It will become insular and separatistic, it will become divisive and accusatory from within, it will [...]
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How is Los Angeles only the 36th most angry city on this list? They obviously haven’t sat in line to take their spot on the 405 during rush hour.
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don’t ask…read his blog and it might make sense I read this post, Now the Mainline Churches Make Sense the other day by Mark Driscoll and I almost fell out of my chair. I basically decided it wasn’t worth my time to comment, nor do I think I need to spend time blogging about it. [...]
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This information is from the Ivy Jungle college network newsletter. Alcohol and Money Lead both Student and Public Concerns for College: A survey of college students show that the most commonly cited problem on campus is alcohol abuse (44%) followed by cost of education (40%); student loan debt (26%); lack of financial aid (26%); drugs [...]
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In an attempt to be fair, accurate and ethical, here is a correction of this blog that I posted on Al Gore. HT: Zach Lind
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“Of all disciples theology is the fairest, the one that moves the head and heart most fully, the one that comes closest to human reality, the one that gives the clearest perspective on the truth which every disciple seeks. It is a landscape like those of Umbria and Tuscany with views which are distant and [...]
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My post below on Driscoll reminds me of another blog he posted a ways back. In his other post, The Right Hand of Fellowship, Driscolls praises the sport of UFC. In it he says: The hottest sporting event among dudes who are not trapped in some seafoam-green evangelical church singing prom songs to Jesus is [...]
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