Archive for the ‘Church & Culture’ Category

If man wrote the Bible, than how is it accurately labeled “The Word of God”? I love questions like this. My friend Gary sent me this, and it’s probably one of the best things I’ve read in a few weeks. Many people struggle with the idea that man wrote the Bible, I don’t know why, [...]


(If you haven’t read part 1, read it here.) Someone once said, “For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”  Some people just don’t like organized religion and some don’t like bodies of people. Some don’t like church. I must confess I don’t like church either; if by church you [...]


I hate church vocabulary. As I’ve grown up on the pew, I’ve become familiar with the niche lingo, words, and phrases that you’ll only hear inside the church or by churchy people. Then you here common phrases that are well known outside of church, but used inside. For example: “let’s corporately pray together” or “lets have another corporate meeting.” [...]


Generations.

18May08

Today I taught a message I’ve been actively working on for 15 months. The best part of the service was when a grandmother came up to me. She had waited patiently until after I was done answering some questions after service. I can only describe her as glowing. She expressed how the Lord used me, and [...]


You’d have to be in a coma to not see the tension between churches and money. Granted, we (as the whole Body of Christ) have had it coming to us because of historical stupidity and greed. The problem is Jesus talked more about money than anything. When we started Gateway, one of our highest priorities [...]


Worship & Life

30Apr08

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” – Romans 12:1 This idea of worshiping from the very being of who we are is so counter American. Are we really supposed to be “living sacrifices”. You mean, [...]


I’ve been busy lately, and that’s an understatement. I’ve been spending a lot of time with friends, and continuing our venture with Gateway. I’ve also been doing a lot of studying and prayer on the subject of hurt, and what we do when we are hurting. I could write it out, but it would be [...]


Number 10

11Feb08

I heard someone say one time, “the man who makes $30K a year thinks the man who makes $60K is materialistic. And the man who makes $60K a year thinks that the man who makes $100K a year is materialistic, and so on and so forth.” The fact is, materialism begins where your income ends. [...]


Recently we had a discussion at our church on what would happen if a homosexual wanted to attend our church on a regular basis. We’ve seen other people, churches, and their religious opinions get very far from God’s word and grace. We’ve even heard people say, “they will never be welcome in this church. We [...]


For the past 3 months I’ve been intentionally trying to second guess my American impulses, thanks to John. There is far to many impulses to name, but I’ll just mention two: fast and judging. Fast. We like fast food, drive through banks, lines of credit, and payment at the pump. As Americans, we want what [...]



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