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• Yes, I Am Guilty of Pastoral Malpractice . . .

  at least as it is defined in an article posted on the LifeWay website.  Here we read the following, written by Thom S. Rainer:

  I would consider pastoral malpractice among the greatest treasons a minister can commit against the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, it is practiced weekly without inhibition.
  What do I mean by pastoral malpractice? […]

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  May 12th, 2008

• The Mind of Christ

  Have the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
  Who, being in nature (the form of) God,
  did not consider equality with God
  as something to be held fast (exploited, grasped)
  but emptied himself,
  taking on the nature (form) of a slave,
  being born in human likeness.
  And being found in human form,
  he abased (humbled) himself
  and became obedient to […]

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  May 12th, 2008

• Faith and Faith Alone.

  "But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ His son replied, ‘I don’t want to,’ but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and told him the same thing. He […]

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  April 22nd, 2008

• A "Good Friday" Christian

  “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for […]

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  March 19th, 2008

• Foreskin’s Lament - A Book About Our Angry God

  Below you will find a commercial, for lack of a better word, for a new book by Shalom Auslander.  The video is an amazing piece of work (take a few minutes to watch it and you will see what I mean), and I can readily identify with much of what is said in it given […]

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  December 8th, 2007

• The Golden Compass - My Two Cents Worth

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  A while back I posted the trailer of the upcoming movie The Golden Compass on this blog. It took awhile, but two folks finally saw fit to comment on the post.  Below is part of the original post by me, the two comments, and my response to them.  This will give any […]

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  December 6th, 2007

• Justice and Mercy, Part 1

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  “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”  - G. K. Chesterton, quoted in Into the Wild, page 117*
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  One of the many ways Christians seem divided against each other, at least in my opinion, has to do with how the professed followers of Jesus […]

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  December 5th, 2007

• Mark Driscoll Says Something I Can Agree With

  I have criticized Mark Driscoll on this blog several times (see here and here, for example), but for once let me give him some kudos for his take on the health, wealth and total victory preaching of Joel Osteen.  If you have a few minutes, view the video below.
   
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  November 22nd, 2007

• The Smiley Face Preacher (Otherwise Known as Joel Osteen)

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  Last evening (Sunday, October 14th) I watched some of 60 Minutes, a show I rarely view anymore.  The reason I did this was because I saw it would have a piece on Joel Osteen, Senior Pastor of America’s largest “church,” otherwise know as Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.  If you didn’t see […]

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  October 15th, 2007

• We Pledge Allegiance

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  The following litany comes via Waving or Drowning via The Weary Pilgrim via Shane Claiborne, who led participants at the recent Catalyst Conference in reciting it.  I can nothing in it with which I disagree.
  With governments that Kill…we will not comply.
  With the theology of Empire…we will not comply.
  With the business of Militarism…we will […]

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  October 11th, 2007