Entries Tagged as 'Church'
21st Century Missions - John Gillespie
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Believe it or not, its been a month since the last post in this series from Jamie Arpin Ricci who gave what were for me, some really insightful answers in the question of Missions funding. Here’s the second in the series from my good friend John Gillespie who interestingly enough, is also working for [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts
End of Week Round up - update
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s a great place to find free religious audio books of a catholic persuasion TheologyForum have written an interesting post on the nature of Apologetics IPSUM ESSE has written some useful reflections on Aberdeen’s Francesca Murphy’s book "God is not a Story" which cannot be purchased for any less than £60 according to [...]
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Advice to Missionaries
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
John Piper quotes Adoniram Judson who has some good things to say regarding missionaries - that is wherever we are called (yes, that means you), Some of these points are interesting in light of the missions series I have been running. it was so engaging I have posted it in its entirity:(Author: John Piper)
As I [...]
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Mid Week Roundup
June 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I was hoping to continue the 21st Century Missions series earlier this week but I have had no time to get the responses together. Thanks to everyone who has responded so far though, there are some great thoughts and it will be well worth the wait. Theologian Douglas Knight shares some interesting [...]
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21st Century Missions: Why Money Matters
June 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments
With my theological premises somewhat laid on the table, I want to move on to the first topic.I
have found it very useful in the last few years to think through things
in conversation with those from my own and other traditions, and as I
was considering mission in the ways described in my earlier post,
I realised I [...]
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A New Blog Series: 21st Century Missions
June 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have been re-thinking my conception of mission and plan to blog a short series on Missions in the 21st Century, to put a backdrop to this series I want to try and lay some of my cards out on the table, as it where, to give some clarity on why I think the way [...]
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Theology is just for Theologians
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
True but, if you are a Christian then essentially there is no choice about whether you’re a theologian or just ’someone who goes to church’, the question is actually, are you a theologian with good theology or bad theology.Bob Kauflin has written a book, which from what I can gather speaks through the theology of [...]
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Update on the Chapmans
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Original Post here: Please Pray for the Chapmans. There’s an encouraging account of the memorial service for Maria Chapman is written by Jim Houser here.He encourages us to continue to Pray:"Friends, it was such a difficult, yet sweet time. I urge you now to
pray for this family. Be intentional. Set an alarm to go off on [...]
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Please Pray for the Chapmans
May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Please Pray for Steven Curtis Chapman and his family as a terrible accident killed their youngest daughter and particularly for their teenage son who was driving, a memorial blog has been set up to leave your condolences with the following message:
Maria
Sue Chapman, adopted and youngest daughter to Mary Beth and Steven
Curtis Chapman, was killed [...]
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Slavoj Zizek on Christian Conusmerism
May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Absolutely rushed off my feet at work today but managed to read this excellent Zizek quote which was related to Christian Consmerism in an excellent post by Ben Myers in his review of "Rapture Ready!" As Slavoj Žižek has observed, the logic of late capitalism presses towards the commodification of a niche identity for its own [...]
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