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To Occupy Wall Street OR To Serve the World? (Guest Post)
Read more: To Occupy Wall Street OR To Serve the World? (Guest Post)It’s cold in Johannesburg. That surprised me because I always thought Africa was a hot place. That was the first of my expectations dashed upon the rocks of reality there. Accompanied by ten people, including seven high school students, I walked around an astonishingly large ghetto with bags of bread and canned foods. To be…
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What I’m (Not) Giving Up For Lent (Guest Post)
Read more: What I’m (Not) Giving Up For Lent (Guest Post)To be honest, I have always had something of an aversion to Lent. I generally dread this time of year: February drawing to a close, Lent is in full steam, and all my holy friends are giving things up for God. Part of me doesn’t see the connection between not eating chocolate and knowing God…
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Jesus: The First Social Worker (Guest Post)
Read more: Jesus: The First Social Worker (Guest Post)Since the beginning of time this world has been dealing with sin and its consequences. Adam and Eve’s fall in the garden leads to many consequences – setting us up for a lifetime of relationship struggles that was not in God’s original plan. As life plays out we watch and see disastrous things start to…
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The Irrelevance of Romney’s Mormonism
Read more: The Irrelevance of Romney’s MormonismShortly before graduating from Biola University in the Spring of 2008, I took a job working as a part-time pastor at a new, predominantly Korean, inner city church plant in Los Angeles. A couple months into the job, I found myself in Buffalo, New York for our denominations’ annual conference. I still cannot forget a…
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God, Art & The Oscars (Guest Post)
Read more: God, Art & The Oscars (Guest Post)Imagine the vast nothingness of a formless and void universe spread out before the Triune Godhead like a blank canvas on which to create the greatest work of art in all of eternity. It would be a work of art that was visual, tactile, auditory, and alive. This work of art is known as the…
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Bringing Sexy Back
Read more: Bringing Sexy BackValentine’s Day yet again brought us some spark of magic during one of the year’s dreariest months. Yet, the past few months within Evangelicalism has produced a firework of sparks surrounding the biggest and more confrontational discussion and issue facing the church in the 21st century: SEX. So, what is the trend? The last decade…
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The Life of The Artist
Read more: The Life of The ArtistThe prohibitive favorite for Best Picture at this Sunday’s 84th annual Academy Awards is Michel Hazanavicius’ black and white silent film The Artist. The film, which is nominated for a total of ten Oscars, is about a silent era movie star struggling to cope in an industry changing with the advent of “talkies.” George Valentin,…
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Thinking Inside The Box: Theodicy & The Tree of Life
Read more: Thinking Inside The Box: Theodicy & The Tree of LifeThis upcoming Sunday is Oscar Sunday. The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony will announce the best efforts in the film industry from 2011. Perhaps the most coveted award, Best Picture, will be decided among 9 nominees. The only film from 2011 to be nominated that I saw was The Tree of Life (I should have been able to include…
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Filthy Rags and True Righteousness
Read more: Filthy Rags and True RighteousnessWe came, we cleaned, we conquered. This weekend our small group, armed with Clorox and Windex, stormed the church, leaving no cranny unclean. For a few months now, we’ve brainstormed ways to become more engaged members of the congregation, and adding our names to the cleaning rotation seemed a good place to start. Saturday was…
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Around the Town: Weekly Round Up
Read more: Around the Town: Weekly Round UpJeremy Lin is the newest feel good story in sports. Lin, a point guard for the New York Knicks, is also a Christian. Is Lin the Tim Tebow of basketball? Carl Park from the Gospel Coalition shares his thoughts about Lin’s Christianity. Here is a similar post by Timothy Gombis. Additionally, here is an opinion…