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Archive of "Great Quotes" Category
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Whole Life Generosity
In my sermon this week, on the parable of the Foolish Rich Man, I referenced this quote from Tom Sine’s book, The New Conspirators. I absolutely loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who is …
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Pastors in their Offices
“The initial locus and primary focus of [pastors] work is in their offices. Time-management studies again and again have confirmed that pastors invest a large percentage of their time in their offices – in meetings, in doing administrative work, …
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What Role Does Confession Play in Your Life?
I’ve been working with someone in our church to take a long hard look at the culture and practices of we’ve developed in our church around the issue of spiritual formation, spiritual direction and discipleship. In this, I’ve been …
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Surprised by Scripture
[/caption] Eugene Peterson is one of those writers who has the uncanny knack to take my deepest struggles with leadership, faith, spirituality and speak …Eat this Book
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Three Questions that Become Answers (1)
Been really enjoying the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons. It’s one of those books that I will pass on to a few people and simply say …
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Limitations
I turned 32 today. Not sure what to think about that. But I can confess that one begins to think more intentionally about life the older one gets. Of course, its not like I am old. …
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The Task of the Church
From Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics v.4.3.2 – The Doctrine of Reconciliation
To sum up, we may say there is committed to it the gospel, I.e. The good, glad tidings of Jesus Christ, of the real act and true revelation of … -
Resident Aliens in Suburbia
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The Church Informing the Powers…
Sometimes all you need is a little quote from NT Wright to get your blood flowing…
“It is by the Church living as the one believing community, in which barriers of race, class, gender and so forth are irrelevant to membership …
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The Pastor’s Responsibility
A friday rebuke/correction/encouragement from our friend Eugene Peterson,
“It is the pastor’s responsibility to keep the community attentive to God. It is this responsibility that is being abandoned in spades.”
From Working the Angles
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What Do We become Christians for?
From David Bosch’s brilliant little book, Believing in the Future,
As we call people (back) to faith in God through Jesus Christ, we must help them to articulate an answer to the question “what do we ahve to become Christians … -
Working Through the Pain
Still reading the book Failure of Nerve. He’s writing about how leadership is affected by the way people and people groups in our society want the quickest relief possible even if it isn’t the best way forward.
Friedman writes,
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Leader: It’s Your Fault / Responsibility
Last week I wrote a little bit about how leaders need to take reponsibiltiy when things go wrong in their communities or organizations. Far too often we are quick to blame it on those we are trying to …
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Amazing People
Been loving Seth Godin’s little book called Tribes. It’s full of some amazing one liners and is the kind of book that makes you want to get up off the couch and change the world.
Here’s a good …
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What is Mission?
“Mission is more than and different from recruiting to our brand of religion; it is alerting people to the universal reign of God.”
David Bosch in Believing the Future
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The Church as Sent: Five Important Thoughts from David Bosch
I’ve been reading David Bosch’s book “Transforming Mission” for almost four years now. If you are familiar with the book, you will know why its taken me so long to get through it. It is essentially a …
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Lesslie Newbigin on Election
Great stuff from my favorite author…
No one can say why it is that one was chosen and another not, why it is that here the word came “not only in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy …
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NT Wright on the Resurrection & the Church
Reading NT Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope this afternoon. A few quotes for your reading pleasure:
The mission of the church is nothing more or less than the outworking, in the power of the Spirit, of Jesus’s bodily resurrection …
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How does the gospel judge suburbia?
I’m working on a class at The Well for tomorrow that is basically serving as an introduction / overview to missional theology. It’s been a blast to put it together and I think we’ll spark some great conversation about …
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Individual Salvation and Restoration of all Things
Quote of the day from The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World in the chapter by Tim Keller,
“In General I don’t think we’ve done a good job at developing ways of communicating the gospel that include both salvation from …
