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Learning To Talk Again: A Review of “How The Body Of Christ Talks.”
Like many, I am becoming weary of the tone of conversation in America today. It seems as if conversation is a lost art and we prefer to yell (or tweet in all caps) at each other more than talk with each other these days. It’s easy to give up hope that conversation is even possible…
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Different Approaches to Changing a City
About a year ago, I attended a webinar with David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw of Northern Seminary on the different approaches to changing a culture used by different segments of the church. David Fitch essentially defined the two approaches as Enlightenment Evangelical and Post-Enlightenment Anabaptist (or perhaps Neo-Anabaptist). As we enter a local government election…
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Where Are We: Babylon or Postexilic Jerusalem?
I have been pondering this question for a while. Recent posts and articles about the state of the Evangelical church two years into the Trump administration, the aging church, and issues within the megachurch world have only made the question speak louder in my mind. It’s long been the thinking of those of us in…
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Follow-up Story On Fox 59
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Circle City Village Status Update
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What Can A Tiny House Do?
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Tiny Houses and the New Sidewalk Sitting Proposal
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Among You As One Who Serves: Guest Post (sort of) by Troy Cady
Last month, my friend, Troy Cady, came from Chicago to share with our Diakonos Community Simple Church Gathering. Before he left on his trip to Indy, he posted some thoughts on his upcoming trip in light of some of the discussion going on that week about leadership and the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek…
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Church At Hardee’s
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts. Acts 2:46 In the early church, spiritual activity was not reserved to only when the followers of Jesus were in the official place of worship (the Temple). As…
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Thoughts on the Future
As I was at a prayer meeting at one of the churches near here tonight I spent some time reflecting on the future for our society. The prayer guide that we were using started with a time of prayer for our leaders, both political and spiritual. I’m not typically a doom and gloom prophetic type…
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We Can’t Handle The Truth
Lately, I have been enjoying the new version of the for King and Country song “O God Forgive Us” that includes a rap bridge by hip hop artist KB. The single varies from the original album version that simply has Joel and Luke sing the verses and chorus followed by a monologue expounding on the…
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Random Thoughts on a Bridge That Is No More (Revisited)
Today marks the eight-year anniversary of the collapse of the old 35W bridge in Minneapolis. Hard to believe it’s been that long. On this day, I commonly revisit a post I had published on my old blog to reflect on what happened that evening. Today I wanted to republish that post on this blog as…
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