Christianity & Culture
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Across the Great Divide: Secular vs. Sacred
A topic I often come back to: Secular vs. Sacred. Christians are far too often either of the world and not in it, or way too off the world to relate to anyone. Can we be "in the world, but not of it," like Jesus said?
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Worship Evangelism
WANTED: Worshipers. ALSO WANTED: Authenticity in the church.
Part one of a few part series, as we work through Sally Morganthaler's book, Worship Evangelism. |
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Trivializing the Cross
Are a variety of representations of the story of Christ effective? Have we become desensitized to the truth of the story? (An odd article that asks more questions than anything else)
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Tolerating Intolerance
Why sharing your faith isn’t intolerant, bigoted, or arrogant.
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Simple Complexity
Why words sometimes need to be used like a paintbrush.
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Redefining Relative Truth
Postmodernism often equals the relativity of truth. Find out how this can be true in a Christian context. Make sure you read the quote.
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What Once Was Should Now Be What Is
Here's a short example and a little info about an AncientFuture faith.
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Left and Right, Up and Down
If you're a Christian, you should be in a church. If you're in a church, you should know these things.
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A Peace of Humble Pie
Humility cures division. Postmoderns and moderns (and everyone else?) needs to learn this.
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The Internet Church?
The Internet: It's good for the occasional spiritual fill-up, but it can't replace the church. But...it can help support it.
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Depth and Breadth
Evangelistic Differences
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Images, Inc.
Images run our society. Images can help you connect. Images are pictures and words and everything in between. Click here for a few suggestions to incorportate images into your worship experience.
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Hieroglyphs of the Church
When a culture responds more to a 30 second commercial or 2 hour movie than they do to the Bible, what is a church to do? Go back to the drawing board....and draw?
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The Merchandising of Authenticity
Selling your soul doesn't cost as much as it used to.
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I'd Rather Have Sand.
If Bob Dylan sang "The Times They Are A'Changin" and much later sang "Things Have Changed," does that mean the change has changed? Inquire within.
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Pre-Empted
Words create and words destroy.
Beware of the words that unite.
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On Religion and Spiritualty, Christianity and Paganism
Would you rather be considered "religious" or "spiritual?" Do you think we live in a Christian or "pagan" country/world? Are these things related?
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On Reason and Experience
The Experience versus Reason debate. One of the central differences in postmodernity and how we take in the world around us.
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Define It
A few "academic" definitions to get your pomo-mojo working. From here, in the next article, we'll work around to how this affects the church.
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Post-What?
Find out what Postmodernity is and is not and what any of this has to do with the individual Christian and the church at large.
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