I’m going to try to post a short quote every week under the title “Weekly Wisdom.” Here’s the first one: “Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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From the monthly archives:
January 2009
As promised in a previous post, I am going to write about Jonah and how he serves as an analogy for the condition of the American church. I’ve facetiously labeled this condition “Jonah-itis.” It is crucial to understanding the Bible to know that God has always desired to be the God of all nations, not [...]
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I’m taking a class on missions right now called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. The course has been amazing and insightful. One of the things they keep hammering home is that most of us begin with missions by asking how we as God’s people can fulfill the Great Commission. The problem is that this [...]
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1-800-GOOG-411 Hat tip to Cyberbrethren for pointing this out. Google now offers absolutely free 411 service — and more. Google is always taking it one step further. . . . Check out this video: Go to http://www.google.com/goog411/ for more information. Technology never ceases to amaze me. . . .
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UPDATE: Charles Lehmann made a great point in a comment on this post — the word tension would be better expressed as paradox. Read the helpful comment by clicking here. This has come up before in a past post entitled The Great “Tensions” of our Faith. It got resurrected recently by a post at internetmonk.com [...]
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I was reading Internet Monk and came across this great post entitled: The Question is God; the Answer is Jesus. Check it out. A small quote from it: When a discussion starts about God, the Christian is not faced with the same choices as other people. Most people can go wherever they want in the [...]
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A post from Tiffany: The day before Thanksgiving, Dan and I decided to make it a priority to go to the gym which he and I had just joined. We participated in their FREE fitness assessment for several reasons. First, from my perspective, I thought that this fitness assessment may help me stay focused and [...]
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I saw a post over at subversive1′s blog that cites a great article over at Mark Main’s blog “The Untried”. Here’s a sample: “If you have read much of this blog you know that I am not a fan of today’s institutional church system for a variety of reasons. I know many don’t understand my [...]
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It’s no big secret that the gospel of American Christianity is really no Gospel at all — see my recent post entitled American Jesus: A Manifesto for more on that. But this is much more significant than just the presentation of “Decision Theology” and other Pelagian ideals, it involves a complete removal of Christ from [...]
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