January 2010
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'When You Want Church to be Church We'll Still be...
I was driving to the hospital to visit someone the other day when I came across a church sporting a sign that read, ‘When you want church to be church, we’ll still be here - traditional services.’
It was a sign that was so unbelievable that I had to actually circle back for a second look (and, of course, a picture). as I was gazing upon this sign and the message that it bore,...
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KABOOM: "social proof," church growth, and you
Why do some churches experience exponential growth, while some remained stagnant?
Why are the voices of the leaders of large or growing churches seemingly valued more than those of small churches that can’t seem to grow no matter what they try?
Undoubtedly, there are a number of answers to questions such as these. For example, one cannot discount the importance of a fresh wind of...
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Haiti: How You Can Help
I know that the emails have been coming frequently and often over the last few days and I know that the ways in which you have been encouraged to help are many. This can lead a person to feel overwhelmed and possibly even paralyzed, because they don’t know how to respond.
With that in mind, I’d like to just offer a few quick suggestions as well as an invitation.
First, as you...
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"Christ crucified" as a hermeneutical framework...
Although the life, teachings, and interactions of Jesus serve as the substance for the majority of the historical narrative which have become known as the synoptic gospels by-and-large they have neglected by the church. Taking the Apostle Paul’s assertion in 1 Corinthians 1.23 as their own, the Christian faith, at least in recent years, has become fixated upon the image of “Christ...
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Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities About Today's...
“The church of Jesus Christ exists to be a sign of the kingdom of God in the culture in which it exists. It is the light and hope in a reprobate world that suggest there is an alternative worldview where giving, losing, serving, and turning our cheeks are higher values than hoarding, gaining, controlling, and avenging. The body of christ is the visible expression of a value system that...
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Conviction
Posted via web from joshrhone’s posterous
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And the two shall become one Twitter stream......
I predict that the use of social media in a marriage relationship will become one of the biggest issues I will be dealing with in marriage counseling in the future.
So writes pastor and counselor Rhett Smith in a recent blog post. (You can read the post in its entirety here.) My initial inclination was to rather snarkily retort that he was beginning to sound like those who run around warning...