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Christianity

A Biblical Perspective on Helping the Poor

February 16, 2010

My nephew-in-law, Chris Horst works for Hope International, a Christian based micro-finance and micro-lending organization. He lives in Denver, and has a WordPress blog site called Smorgasblurb, and I just noticed this recent post as being particularly good. It’s called Monthly Musings: Cocaine Charity. I encourage you to check it out.

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House Churches are Isolationist and Cult-Like?

January 15, 2010

Question: Are house churches more likely than conventional churches to become isolationist and cult-like?
Apparently at least one blogger thinks so, and had the guts to quote George Barna’s research to support his assertion! Author and researcher George Barna responds to this assertion in a recent blog post of his own.
First, I found the alleged bloggers [...]

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Manhattan Declaration

January 14, 2010

If you are a Christian of any kind, flavor, brand, creed, persuasion, location, affiliation, category, group, school, society or denomination – then I encourage you to join me and thousands of others in signing the Manhattan Declaration:

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Work to End Slavery

January 10, 2010

A group of friends have formed a Local Abolitionists group in Oak Park, Illinois, to fight slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. More information can be found at LocalAbolitionists.org.
Their next event is the showing of a film called At the End of Slavery – the battle for justice in our time. It is scheduled [...]

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The Talking Mirror

November 17, 2009

Today I’m happy for a friend named Conor McCarthy whose website at TheTalkingMirror.com was featured in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times. The website features satire written mostly toward and about evangelical Christians in an attempt to not take ourselves so seriously, and to humorously point out our own issues, dysfunctions and often weird thinking [...]

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My Ministry Age

October 13, 2009

In the recent issue of Christianity Today Magazine, there is an interesting quiz that helps one determine their “ministry age” by answering a series of 25 multiple choice questions. It was developed by Jimmy Long of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to foster dialog between younger and older leaders about diverse views and to contribute to better [...]

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Sunshine Gospel’s Virtual Fund Rasier Event

September 14, 2009

Sunshine Gospel Ministries serves the inner city Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Like many Christian non-profit ministries, they rely heavily on funds donated by supporters. Usually, this means putting on a big fund-raising event like a banquet in the fall of the year, in order to raise the funds they need for the coming year.
This [...]

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The Red Dot Approach

September 13, 2009

As mentioned in an earlier post, a good friend recently gave me a book to read by Dr. Larry Crabb entitled: “Real Church: Does it Exist? Can I Find It?” I have finished reading the book and have been reflecting on it and discussing it with good friends since then.
Dr. Crabb spends the first 20 chapters [...]

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Fundamentalism

September 9, 2009

Dinesh D’Souza writing in “What’s So Great About Christianity?”
Some Western analysts describe the religious revivals around the world in terms of the growth of “fundamentalism.” This is the fallacy of ethnocentrism, of seeing the world through the lens of our own homegrown prejudices. Remember that fundamentalism is a term drawn from Protestant Christianity. It is [...]

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The House Church Book

July 30, 2009

I am happy to announce that “The House Church Book : Non Emergent New Testament Prototype“ has been completed and is now available online as a PDF downloadable eBook. This book is a revised and updated version of my father’s original book “The House Church : A Model for Renewing the Church” published in 1988 [...]

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