From the monthly archives:

June 2005

The Missionary God

June 30, 2005

Missional Thinking 1. The Missionary God 2. The Mission of God 3. A Missional Church 4. Missional Proclamation As Southern Baptists we love the word “mission.” We cover the topic in our seminaries, host conferences about it in our churches and often talk about being “on mission.” In fact one of our magazines goes by [...]

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John Elway in the John

June 29, 2005

So I ran into John Elway tonight. Jen and I were eating at Chili’s and half way through our meal our server tells us “John Elway is here.” After five minutes of deliberation Jen and I agreed that John Elway was a sports star, and we were pretty sure he was a Superbowl quarterback. We [...]

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Zombie Dogs?

June 28, 2005

With the resurgence and new popularity of zombie movies, I thought I would share a somewhat related link. Kinda. Here’s a news story about a group of US scientists, aka “boffins,” who brought dogs back to life after being clinically dead for three hours. (from news.com.au)

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Suck-a-Thumb

June 27, 2005

My wife grew up in Germany with an American mother and German father. Just like all German kids she was read this particular story, and similar stories. This is a scan from the actual book, accompanied by the translation. The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb One day, Mamma said, “Conrad dear, I must go out and [...]

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Beautiful Truth

June 27, 2005

At the Younger Leaders Summit just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention, Chris Seay (pastor/author) spoke of truth. He actually spoke highly of truth and the need to communicate it, which is why I think it’s funny that his message made a few people uncomfortable. Okay, maybe they got off on the wrong foot when [...]

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ESV Q&A

June 25, 2005

Some of the scholars behind the ESV who continue to review and study their translation of the Bible are answering questions via the ESV blog. You can read their responses, or watch them in streaming video. Paul House, one of the translators on the “Oversight Committee,” was my Hebrew professor in seminary. Paul, where’s the [...]

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Now What?

June 24, 2005

The Convention is over, and I wanted to wrap it all up on a positive note. I know some younger leaders and churches are skeptical of the SBC. Is it irrelevant to us? Perhaps even resistant to what we are all about? I also understand that some of the established leadership and churches are skeptical [...]

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