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Jesus, start over (a prayer)

This past weekend I was away on my quarterly spiritual retreat at The Transforming Center and someone in my small group started a prayer with the first line of this prayer. Over the weekend and since it’s just been bouncing around in my head. Along with that, we talked in church a couple weeks ago – [...]

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One Paragraph Reviews: The Word of the Lord to Democrats

I said in a previous post, that I’d review books that you all requested.  The third request on the list was The Word of the Lord to Democrats by Brian McLaren (available only via Kindle). So, here’s my one-paragraph review… I’ll start by saying I like Brian McLaren. I don’t always agree with everything he says, but [...]

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Rob Bell’s Eschatology

Over on the Out of Ur blog, Skye Jethani recently interviewed Rob Bell. I loved this question from Skye (bolded) and Rob’s answer: You’ve obviously gotten a lot of attention for your thoughts about eschatology in the last year. How does one’s vision of the future impact their work in the present? The gospel is [...]

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