Guest Bloggers: Mike & Ann Mara Kijabe, Kenya, is a small village situated about an hours drive from the bustling capitol city of Nairobi. The main road out of the city winds its way up over 8,000 feet elevation along the rim of the Great Rift Valley. As one slowly ascends in elevation, the views […]
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By Guest Blogger: Rick Gerhardt. My wife and I had the great privilege recently to enjoy a weekend retreat (in Texas’ hill country) during which we interacted with the topic of creation care in the life of the church. The theme of the weekend was “Creation, Church, and Community,” and the speakers were Eugene Peterson
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If you haven’t checked out Redux at askquestions.tv lately, you should take a look! The people working on it are constantly making improvements and adding features to the site. Here are a few things you should know about it: For Skeptics – For Skeptics is a fantastic resource for people who are curious about Christianity
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From Antioch’s Identity Documents ********************* Company of Fools Christians are out of step with the world. We look foolish. We make decisions and commitments that seem illogical to others. We march to a different tune and work for different goals. In a lot of ways we’re fools. It’s a fitting description when we begin to
Here’s a great article from Nicholas Kristoff of the NY Times. It’s an excellent cultural overview of Christians and Justice over the last decade. Click here or on the picture below!!
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Here is something that my brother Marcel from the Congo said in the middle of an interview the other day. Pretty straight talk from a guy who puts his life on the line every day as an expression of his Christian faith. (Imagine Marcel saying these words slowly and intently with a distinct French accent).
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I’ve been thinking through something this past week that I’ll probably put into a full message. The main idea basically goes like this: there are people who call themselves Christians who are on an inevitable path to walk away from the church and God. I call these people Terminal Christians. In the past, when America
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Tamara is reading through C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicle’s of Narnia and came across this passage that I marked years ago in The Magician’s Nephew. We must go back a bit and explain what the whole scene had looked like from Uncle Andrew’s point of view. It had not made at all the same impression on
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I’ve been having some discussions lately with some folk who are a part of “The New Atheists” – a term for a recent movement of confident and assertive atheism coming from a collection of writers that includes Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others. Last night I actually watched a debate between William Lane Craig and
(Here’s an excerpt from an e-mail answering someone’s question on how to re-approach scripture reading after it has lost its excitement and meaning.) You certainly don’t ask an easy question, but it sure is an important one. Here are the thoughts I’ve had on making bible reading more effective: Make it fun. Get a bible
