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A Song to Remember
Category: General
Tags: Jessica Smith
HORIZON via Compfight Here’s a song that a friend of ours from Third Way Church wrote that you might want to listen to today of all days. It’s based on Psalm 84. If you’re feeling…
Election Day Communion Resources
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Tags: Election Day Communion, Politics, Unity
Rachel Held Evans posted today about Election Day Communion and provided resources for those of you who cannot attend one of these services. Let’s all be praying today for unity among the saints and blessings…
Christian Utopia
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Tags: Kingdom Living, Politics
Fergal of Claddagh, OP via Compfight A little meditation on Christian Utopia and the Body Politic as we stand poised on the eve of the election in America. We affirm that Jesus will indeed “establish…
The Issue that Unites Us
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Tags: Election Day Communion, Politics, Unity
While there is a great deal of disagreement on political issues and while we can debate (endlessly) on political solutions, there is one thing that should always unite us despite all of this: our ultimate…
The Political Ambiguity of the Abortion Issue
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Tags: Abortion, Politics, Unity
José Manuel Ríos Valiente via Compfight. As an illustration of the ambiguity of the abortion question when approaching it from a political point of view, here’s an article portraying Obama as a hero of the pro-life…
Lighten Up: Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Lighten Up, Thorn in the Flesh
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Bruxy on Anger
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Tags: Blessed are the Meek, Bruxy Cavey, Sermons
Last weekend Bruxy Cavey preached at Woodland Hills Church while Greg attended the ReKnew retreat. Here’s a little clip of the sermon he shared regarding meekness and anger.
God-Talk When Disaster Strikes
Category: General
Tags: Picture of God, Suffering, Theodicy
Kent Annan posted 5 God Excuses to Avoid After a Natural Disaster and Conor Finnegan shared some social media God-speak that was posted in the aftermath of Sandy’s devastation. Disasters like this reveal so much…
Oh Constantine
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Tags: Constantine, Jesus, Politics
Once upon a time there was a Roman Emperor named Constantine who used the enemy-loving Jesus to kill his enemies. What does this have to do with us? Find out:
Review of Proof of Heaven (Eben Alexander)
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Tags: Book Reviews, Heaven, Proof of Heaven
Proof of Heaven is a recently released book by Eben Alexander that is receiving a lot of acclaim. In this review I’d like to first provide a general overview of Proof of Heaven and then…
A Word From Greg
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Tags: ReKnew
Heh peeps, the ReKnew Team had an AWESOME weekend hanging out together and dreaming big dreams about how God wants to use this ministry to further his will. I am SO blessed to be surrounded…
Divine Drama
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Tags: Christian Living, Theology
Jeff K. Clark posted last week on God as Master Story-Teller and Finding Our Place Within the Divine Drama. There’s an enormous difference between talking about God using abstractions versus locating him in the stories…
More Pics of the ReKnew Team
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Tags: ReKnew
Here’s a couple more pics of the ReKnew team from our Retreat.
ReKnew Retreat
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Tags: ReKnew
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,…
Christians Should…
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Tags: Politics
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…
I Don’t Know
Category: General
Tags: Humility
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…