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#4 (Top 10 of 2011)

December 28, 2011 in Bible, Blogging, Church, Reading, Spirituality with 2 Comments

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#4: My Response to the Rob Bell “Conspiracy”

I’ll give you a heads up in advance. This post is longer than normal so if you are skimming for a soundbite you may want to stop here. If you’re still interested, pull up a chair and engage your mind for a few moments.

You may or may not be aware of the American Church Politics that go on from time to time. It’s mostly petty and always damaging. One group or another is quick to tell all of their people why they should boycott some other influential Christian or ministry. The last time I engaged in the drama was when they were boycotting Paul Young’s book The Shack…

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#5 (Top 10 of 2011)

December 27, 2011 in Blogging, Church with 2 Comments

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#5: Is Mark Driscoll a Bully?

Let me begin by stating that I’m not a fan of Mark Driscoll, the Pastor of Mars Hill church in Washington. Due to his rising status as well as his controversial nature I seem to get asked my opinion about him quite often. I’ve always answered the questions but have stopped short of any “official” stance against him. I try to focus on what I’m for rather than what I’m against, especially when they are disagreements with other Christians…

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#6 (Top 10 of 2011)

December 27, 2011 in Blogging, Church, Leadership with 1 Comment

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#6: My Top 20 Quotes from the Leadership Summit

Last week Central hosted the Leadership Summit again. It is a great conference with a variety of speakers that challenges your faith, your leadership, and your thinking in general. I’ve now had a few days to process through the fire-hose of content and I wanted to share the top 20 quotes that most stood out to me…

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#10 (Top 10 of 2011)

December 22, 2011 in Blogging, Church, Music with 2 Comments

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#10: An Evening With James Hetfield

I can cross something off my bucket list. I had the incredible opportunity to spend an evening with one of my childhood heroes… James Hetfield (lead singer of Metallica). On Thursday night we showed the documentary Absent and then had the producer, Justin Hunt (who goes to Central), and James here for a Q&A afterward…

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24/7 Prayer

November 10, 2011 in Church with 1 Comment

This week I had the chance to spend an hour at Central’s 24/7 prayer event. I love the imagery at each station and the chance to calm down, relax, and allow my mind to wander wherever God would lead me.

There were a couple of highlights for me.

First, there was a station where you thought through the areas where you are weak in your life. You wrote the main area down on a piece of paper with a picture of nails and pinned it to a cross. Then, you wrote down how you will protect yourself in this area by writing that down on a piece of paper with a cross on it. Here was mine:

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