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More Pics of the ReKnew Team

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Here’s a couple more pics of the ReKnew team from our Retreat.    

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ReKnew Retreat

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The ReKnew team met this weekend for a retreat. We dreamed some dreams and set some new things in motion. You’ll be hearing more about that in the coming days and weeks, but for now,…

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Christians Should…

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The American Jesus blog recently posted a series of reflections from Christians arguing for different ways of voting including, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Jill Stein, as well as an argument for not voting. It’s a…

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I Don’t Know

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It’s a peculiar thing about evangelical culture that so many of us feel like we’re supposed to have an answer to everything. It’s become our favorite idol: certainty. Maybe it’s a vestige of eating of…

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Lighten Up: Who Does Jesus Support in This Election?

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Homosexuality and the Church: Finding a “Third Way”

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Here is a word I a shared this last weekend with Woodland Hills Church (where I’m senior pastor) in response to numerous questions I’ve received over the last several months. People have asked me why…

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Sermon: The Dependent and Those Who Mourn

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Here’s a short clip of Greg’s sermon from last week: You can download the full sermon and other sermon resources by clicking here. The sermon description from Woodland Hills: God designed us to get all of…

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Shane Claiborne on How Bad Theology Can Be Deadly

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David D Flowers shared this video over at The Centrality and Supremacy of Jesus Christ and we thought it was worth sharing here too. Theology matters.

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The Way We Disagree Matters

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Rachel Held Evans posted her reflections on the ways we interact over differences in Biblical interpretation. It’s an important topic as we live out the kingdom among one another in our polarizing environment. How do…

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Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain

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These things need to stop as it relates to our faith and our politics. Image by Katie Tegtmeyer. Sourced via Flickr.

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Quotes to Chew On: Experiencing Truth

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“Many Christians have learned that they need to “be transformed by the renewing of [their] minds” (Romans 12:2) and have been taught that this involves telling themselves the truth about who they are in Christ…

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Lighten Up: Theology

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I stole this from a reader’s Facebook page. (Thanks Kevin.) It’s good to remember that we don’t really have it all figured out.

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How Much Is Enough?

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Richard Beck over at Experimental Theology wrote a reflection on insights he gained from the book How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. He points out how the advent…

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Sermon: The Salt and Light Revolution

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What does it mean to be the salt and light? In Greg’s sermon last weekend, he explores how followers of Jesus can step out of the crowd in ways that bring these good things to…

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Isn’t the Gospel of John unreliable compared to the Synoptic Gospels?

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Question: The Jesus Legend  persuaded me that the Gospels are generally reliable. But I remain very skeptical of the reliability of the Gospel of John. It was written long after the Synoptics, and its view…

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Pre-Modern Readings of Genesis 1

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Biologos posted a three part reflection on Pre-Modern readings of Genesis 1 that are worth a closer look. And no matter what your particular way of reading this portion of Scripture, let’s pay attention to…

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On Hacking Off Our Own Limbs

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Nadia Bolz Weber posted this weekend on The Sarcastic Lutheran, and we thought you’d enjoy her thoughts on hacking off our own limbs for Jesus. Don’t worry, you won’t have the urge to find an axe…

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Lighten Up: Smile

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Go ahead and smile. What do you have to lose? It will make you feel and look better and it’s free. Image by Neal Fowler. Sourced via Flickr.

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Speaking of “the Poor”

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D. L. Mayfield wrote this guest post on Love is What You Do titled The Language of Poverty. How do we think of and interact with “the poor” on a daily basis? Here’s some good…

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Quotes to Chew on: How First Century Jews Came to Worship a Man

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“Legends do not generally arise in contradiction to fundamental convictions held by the culture of those who create and embrace them. Yet if the Jesus story is largely a fictitious legend, this is exactly what…

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