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Global Warming Worship: An Eternal, God-Sized View of a Fleeting, Man-Sized Problem (RE-look)
October 3, 2011
Posted for the first time on December 19, 2011. ————- It is interesting to note the growing phenomenon of this thing we call Global Warming. The UN, in the recent past, has taken notice. They put together a 10 day conference over the issues of: 1) a world-wide government and re-distribution of wealth; and 2) [...]
Exploring the Relational, Missional, & Family-Driven Bandwagons in Student Ministry: A Few Thoughts & Questions on What Students Want Today
September 27, 2011
Over the past couple of months, God has been teaching me several things about this up-and-coming generation. Many of the things I am learning is simply having them — young people — as my teacher. I am learning by talking with them. I am learning by hanging out them. I am learning by hearing their [...]
Exploring Culture Today (9.21.11)
September 21, 2011
—————————————- @mashable Pete Cashmore WATCH: @Foursquare just hit 1 billion checkins. This is what a week of checkins looks like - t.co/hq7WV6Ms —————————————- @AP The Associated Press Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs discharged from prison hospital after fast-related illness. apne.ws/nOe8pM -MM —————————————- @GOOD GOOD Calling all artists! We’re challenging you to illustrate the newst.co/oK0SswHN —————————————- @nytimes The New York Times Obama’s Tax on Millionaires t.co/wKtGGR8h —————————————- [...]
Exploring Culture Today: 9.20.11
September 20, 2011
@TrevinWax Trevin Wax Worth a Look: Donald Miller on the best writing advice he ever received http://ow.ly/6zjJO —————————————- @Jonathanakin Jonathan Akin I was interviewed today by Fox News & @toddstarnes about the SBC name change. Read it here fxn.ws/noGbF5 —————————————- @drmoore Dr. Russell Moore Moore to the Point: An End to Trickle-Down Worship bit.ly/pTfL8y —————————————- @washingtonpost The Washington Post #Netflix erases 12 months [...]
Starbucks CEO Turns Political Activist
September 9, 2011
About a week ago, I received the following email in my inbox. It was a mass email sent by the reps at Starbucks from their CEO, Howard Schultz. I read the email in astonishment. Schultz encourages Americans to come together to challenge Washington to put their bipartisan stances behind them and finally come to terms [...]
Best of the Bookshelf: Top Picks From My Summer Reading List
September 1, 2011
The days of reading on the beach are numbered, but here are two of my top recommendations from a great season. Both happen to be Pulitzer Prize-winning novels that I never had a chance to read in high school or college. But their messages are striking—and both are worthy to end up in your backpack [...]
Animated Video of the Lustrous Career of the ONE & ONLY Steve Jobs
August 28, 2011
This is a great video. WARNING: I wouldn’t watch this unless you were old enough to stay up past midnight.
Cross-Colored Glasses
August 14, 2011
Living in the In-Between As Christians we live in a vast in-between, living as natives of two worlds. With the Apostle Paul we can affirm “our citizenship is in heaven” (Phil 3:20), and can affirm with (possibly) misty eyes that we are “kind of homesick for a country to which I have never been before.” [...]
Does our idiocy know no bounds – A Presidential Twitter Debate?!
July 24, 2011
I am at a loss as I write this article. I was planning to continue a series of articles entitled “What if we believed,” but I had to break my own series to get some help understanding a recent political/social network event. Wednesday marked what many news outlets are declaring an historic day. The first [...]







November 23, 2011
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