ReKnew
ReThink Humanity
Category: General
Tags: Egalitarianism, Family, Marriage, Rachel Held Evans, Women In Ministry
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight When we wrote the ReKnew Manifesto, one of the issues we were passionate about was helping people rethink gender issues within the church. Part of the Manifesto reads: Against the…
Lighten Up: Keep Going
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Encouragement, Inspiration, Kid President, Lighten Up, Soul Pancake, Unity
Yes.
Benefit of the Doubt: Sneak Peek
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, ReKnew
We’ll be leaking little tidbits from Greg’s soon-to-be-released book Benefit of the Doubt from today until the book release. We’re really excited about the potential of this book to impact the lives of those who…
How We Are Defined
Category: General
Tags: Church, Kingdom Living, Love Your Neighbor, Politics, Zack Hunt
Burstein! via Compfight Zack Hunt wrote a piece called Abortion, Gay Marriage, Immigration, Gun Control, and the Church over at A Deeper Story. He points out that we have a big problem on our hands…
When Tradition is a Too Small Cage…and a Fence
Category: General
Tags: Division, Tradition, Unity
fusion-of-horizons via Compfight Jonathan Storment wrote a fabulous article on the functions of tradition and the ways it can sometimes lead to senseless division among us. We’re really tired of division over things that don’t really…
Bad Exegesis
Category: General
I guess if you can’t afford the $399.95 price tag you must be doing it wrong. (Thanks Tara for bringing this to our attention.)
Lighten Up: Good Question
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Calvinism, Free Will, Humor, Lighten Up, Open Theism
Showing Up
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Perfection, Practicing the Presence of God, Simplicity
Jonathan Kos-Read via Compfight Shauna Niequist over at Donald Miller’s Storyline blog shared some thoughts on Why You Should Stop Waiting for Life to be Perfect. She points out that sometimes this waiting for perfection gets…
Secret Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Jess in Process, Jessica Kelley, ReKnew
J L via Compfight We don’t usually do this, but Jessica Kelley (Henry’s mom) over at Jess in Process wrote a piece about her struggles with doubt, and we got her permission to reprint it…
A Word About Sharing the Gospel From an Atheist
Category: General
Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Evangelism, Gospels, Love
Jen J over at A Deeper Family wrote a little piece about how she felt convicted after this video was played during a sermon at her church. She makes some good points. Penn Jillette is a…
Tardy
Category: General
Tags: Honesty, Prayer, Relationships, Sermons, Unconditional Love
This is the sermon clip entitled Honest to God that should have appeared last week. Sorry. Sometimes life gets a bit busy. In this short sermon clip, Greg introduces the idea that one of our…
A Calvinist and an Arminian walk into a bar…
Category: General
Tags: Arminianism, Calvinism, God's Love, God's Sovereignty, Open Theism, Roger Olson
Toby Bradbury via Compfight Roger Olson posted A Conversation between a Calvinist and an Arminian about God’s Sovereignty that we thought was dead on. In fact, we kind of wonder if Roger is bugging some of the conversations…
Costly Discipleship
Category: General
Tags: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship, Kingdom Living, The American Jesus, Zack Hunt
Bob AuBuchon via Compfight Zack Hunt over at The American Jesus is doing a series of posts called “Blogmatics” in which he fleshes out the theological assumptions that inform his blog posts. A couple of…
We Need The Church
Category: General
Tags: Church, Faithfulness, Rachel Held Evans
Vicki & Chuck Rogers via Compfight Last week we shared a thought-provoking article by Rachel Held Evans on the reasons millennials are leaving the church. This week we want to share a follow-up to that…
Lighten Up: Who Sees the Real You?
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Authenticity, Lighten Up
It’s a good question. Many times, as Christians, we can get stuck hiding who we really are because we think we’re not good enough or some other such nonsense. But the real you is the…
The Lion, the Witch and the War
Category: General
Tags: C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Peace, Peacemaking, Red Letter Christians, War
sandy Poore via Compfight Red Letter Christians featured some of Greg’s thoughts in their recent article entitled The Lion, the Witch and the War. The author of the article talks about the C.S. Lewis story and…
Rachel Held Evans on What Drives Millennials (and Others) Away from Church
Category: General
Tags: Authenticity, Church, Millennials, Rachel Held Evans
David Clow via Compfight Have you been wondering why so many churches are dwindling in numbers? Rachel Held Evans was asked to speak about what drives millennials away from church, but her response has struck…
Conference: Faith, Doubt & the Idol of Certainty
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Idolatry
We’re really excited about Greg’s book, Benefit of the Doubt, coming out in September. In fact, we’re SO excited that we want to invite you all to a conference we’re holding September 27-28, 2013 at Woodland Hills…