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Sermon: Does God Play Favorites?
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Free Will, Predestination, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
In this clip from last week’s sermon, Greg begins to dive into the question of what it means to be chosen by God. Does he play favorites? Does God predestine some as “his chosen” and…
Quotes to Chew On: Desires
Category: General
Tags: Christian Living, Desires, Kingdom Living, Quotes, Temptation
Marcos de Madariaga via Compfight Here’s a quote that comes to us via Andrew Sullivan’s blog: “We are rarely presented with an authentically fulfilling trajectory for our desires… If we are created for infinite satisfaction,…
God is Not…
Category: General
Tags: Gungor, Love, Picture of God
You just have to love this song by Gungor. Hope it blesses your socks off like it did us. (Thanks Jan Willem!)
Parable of the Jerk Loser Son
Category: General
Tags: Christianity, Jesus, Love of God, Parables, Peter Enns, Prodigal Son
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery via Compfight Peter Enns blogged about the parable of the prodigal son, or as he likes to call it, “the parable of the jerk loser son.” It’s actually a reflection about…
Sermon: Letter to Henry
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Death, Henry, Jesus, Problem of Evil, Sermons, Theodicy
We usually share a short clip from Greg’s sermons here, but we decided that a clip just won’t do this week. This last weekend Greg preached about the life and death of Henry and what…
Kingdom Sightings: God and Guinness
Category: General
Tags: Evangelism, God, Kingdom
Evan Leeson via Compfight Here’s a unique Kingdom initiative from one of our readers that we wanted to share with you. If you’re in Ann Arbor, check it out! Starting in January, one of the…
Lighten Up: Existential French Cat
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Existentialism, Humor, Lighten Up, Philosophy
Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)
Tips on what NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith
Category: General
Tags: Abuse, Christian Living, Doubt, Faith, support
Neal Fowler via Compfight Here’s a post from a year ago from Elizabeth Esther on What NOT to say to someone struggling with their faith. Historically, the church has been a very unsafe place for…
Following Jesus from the Margins
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Justice, Kurt Willems, Non-Violence, Subversive
D. Sharon Pruitt via Compfight Kurt Willems posted a reflection today entitled From the Margins: Following Jesus in a post-Christian culture. I hope everyone will read this. It’s a perspective from the anabaptist tradition that…
N.T. Wright on the Whole Sweep of Scripture
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Christian Living, N.T. Wright, Scripture
Here’s a really fine video message from N.T. Wright on how to read Scripture. So many of the misunderstandings we take away from Scripture happen when we pick out a verse here and there and…
A Christ-Follower’s Alternative to New Year’s Goals
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Obedience, Peace
tomo tang via Compfight Richard Dahlstrom over at Fibonacci Faith offered an alternative to setting New Year’s goals that can steal peace in our lives. What if we committed to attending to all the little…
A Calvinist Take on the Problem of Evil
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Current Events, Death, Henry, Problem of Evil, ReKnew, Roger Olson, Theodicy
Carnie Lewis via Compfight Here’s a Calvinist view on the problem(s) of evil in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. It’s the old God-as-author analogy. In essence, this is how Calvinism views God’s role…
N.T. Wright: Truth Happens
Category: General
Tags: Beauty, N.T. Wright, Truth
N.T. Wright talks about the relationship between truth and beauty. Lovely.
Lighten Up: Napoleon Dynamite Dances to Michael W. Smith
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Emmanuel, Humor, Lighten Up, Michael W. Smith, Napoleon Dynamite, The American Jesus, Zack Hunt
This should put a smile on your face. If Napoleon Dynamite cooking it to Emmanuel doesn’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will. Thanks Zack!
The Suffering of God
Category: General
Tags: Creation, Current Events, Doubt, Faith, God, Newtown, Pain, Problem of Evil, Suffering, Theodicy
NYC.andre via Compfight This seems like a good follow-up post from what Greg posted yesterday. Charisma posted this reflection on the problem of evil and the suffering of God. It’s a great summary of our…
Let Us Pray
Category: General
Tags: Advent, Darkness, David Smith, Grief, Newtown, Prayer, Problem of Evil, T.C. Moore
Per Ola Wiberg via Compfight It’s appropriate to pray and reflect and run to God when tragedies like the one in Newtown, CT take place. We wanted to share a couple of things we found…
Lighten Up: Disruptive Thinkers
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Cartoons, Church, Humor, Lighten Up
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Do Something Beautiful
Category: General
Tags: Art, Beauty, Christian Living, Richard Beck
Wonderlane via Compfight Richard Beck posted this reflection of the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with her hair and the idea of a Christian aesthetic. It’s inspiring. From the blog: More and more, I’ve come to…