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What’s A Couple of Slaves When You Have Good Theology?

Posted in African American Perspective, tagged , , , on December 14, 2008 | 104 Comments »

James 1:23-25
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;for {once} he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect [...]

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Transforming The World Or Escaping From It: How Our Eschatology Effects Our Perspective

Posted in Christian Living, Current Issues, Eschatology, World Issues, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I love this quote from Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation“
So, too the reason God now calls kingdom people to remain separate from the ways of the kingdom-of-the-world is not to isolate them from their culture but to empower them to authentically, serve their culture and ultimately win it over to allegiance to [...]

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I Want To Apolgize To The Black Church

Posted in African American Perspective, Christian Living, Current Issues, Ecclesiology, Race Issues, Racial Reconciliation, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 31 Comments »

Here are a list of things I apologize for. This is  to the Black Church, the next will be to the Charismatic Church and then the Emergent Church. I want you to read this carefully.
1. I am sorry that I thought your hermeneutic was inferior!
2. I am sorry that I mocked you!
3. I am sorry [...]

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Sola Scriptura… An Irrelevant Doctrine Today?

Posted in Current Issues, Ecclesiology, Reformed Perspective, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 63 Comments »

Here is how we would define Sola Scriptura:
The phrase sola scripturais from the Latin: sola having the idea of “alone,” “ground,” “base,” and the word scriptura meaning “writings” – referring to the Scriptures. Sola scriptura means that Scripture alone is authoritative for the faith and practice of the Christian. The Bible is complete, authoritative, and [...]

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Its’ The Remix Baby #16

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Matthew 23:37
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! but you were not predestined and elected, chosen by the Father in eternity past!

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Downtown Dallas Homeless Outreach: The Starfish Mentality

Posted in Christian Living, Missions, Theology Applied, tagged , , , , , on December 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »

To anyone who resides in the Dallas Metroplex. A few of us are going to go downtown on December the 21st (Jesus healed on the sabbath ) and hand out coats and shoes and fresh fruit and anything else you want to bring.
If you are interested you can post a reply here with your number or just [...]

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Apply The Bible Three Times A Day For Two Weeks And Call For Another Appointment

Posted in Christian Living, Christianity, Discipleship, tagged , , , on December 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »

There used to be something I believed quite strongly in. That is if you just learned enough bible, you know enough verses things would get better. And the reason people couldn’t stay strong is because they didn’t have enough bible in them. So if someone had a problem hook them up to the bible IV, [...]

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3 Reasons Why I Am Not Convinced By The Expository Preaching Arguement

Posted in Christian Education, Church Leadership, Ecclesiology, Sermons, Theology Applied, tagged , , on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »

There is an argument that goes something like this:
There are two reasons why this kind of speaking in the church is so crucial. One is that the subject matter is infinitely important. There is no other organization on earth that deals in matters of eternal life and eternal death—matters about God and his Son and [...]

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Real Questions For Pastors

Posted in Church Leadership, Current Issues, Ecclesiology, tagged , , on December 8, 2008 | 23 Comments »

This is not a post to minimize or degrade the work of a Pastor. At all! But it is a genuine post about things I wrestle with. Especially as of lately (6 months or so maybe 9 months). As I struggle through what it means to be a Christian, how I am to live as [...]

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How Our Presuppositions Drive Our Interpretation

Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

In the picture above each way is up depending on the perspective/position! I think this picture describes Christianity to a tee.  As I read more and listen more and wrestle more, I have begun to see a trend that many of you may have noticed a long time ago. Maybe I was blinded by mind [...]

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