Jan 30, 2016
Rarely does anyone question the call for a Christian to be radical. When radical is associated with Muslims it is a different impulse. We must ask, “How has our imagination been conditioned?” Several months ago I presented my friend Greg with an idea and an opportunity, “Consider writing a series of guest posts on logical...
Jan 28, 2016
The prohibition exposes the desire. Now that you have wandered over to follow Alabama Baptist on Twitter, inspired by my prohibition, let me suggest that any publication that could exercise good judgment when printing any piece it receives and does not, does not deserve a single Twitter follower. Or any follower for that matter. To...
Jan 27, 2016
Dumbfounded. The early morning text read, “”From Rolling Stone, which is more Biblical than Liberty U, apparently.” If that won’t wake up the preacher in you, it will at least startle any relationship to Evangelicalism one may have. No Trumpeter Here The recent decision by The Donald to boycott the next Presidential candidate debate on...
Jan 25, 2016
Almost four months ago workers removed a Ten Commandments monument from the Capital grounds in Oklahoma City. Maybe it was premature. What if rather than a testimony to pagans the Judeo-Christian God designed a pattern for people to live together in the world, the monument served as a reminder to the State Legislators that the...
Jan 18, 2016
Knowing what someone says does not always equal knowing what someone means. It may be as silly as whether to use soda or coke. Much of your decision is learned from your context. Do you invite someone for a soda? If so, it may mean you will offer a variety of flavored carbonated beverages. Do...
Jan 13, 2016
Have you ever stared into a small grave disturbed by the mini-casket laying in the dirt, know nothing about the young, very young, parents, seeing no family or friends . . . grappling with the pastoral moment and your neatly packaged systematic theology and feeling all your patterned responses from that untried place sounds like...
Jan 6, 2016
A post about Gun Control would garner more interest than one explaining the reboot of a podcast. But, I will take that risk using a gun analogy. We did not grow up hunters, or around guns for that matter, in our house. We did have cap guns. Eventually we even had a BB gun. When...
Jan 4, 2016
Scot McKnight suggests a New Year’s Resolution: Let’s have better conversations. He abridged a series of posts he put together a few years ago, before he moved to Patheos for his blog. Inspired by the book The Age of Conversation, McKnight proposed observing these marks of a good conversation: First, a good conversation (and therefore...
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