I know the 4th has just passed us, but please view this video.  I hope this video touches your heart.  I know many people have ambivalent feelings about the war, but we need to remember that those who are far away are real people, real fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters.  All of them [...]

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John on June 9th, 2008

To continue our discussion from last week and to finish our look at Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens, let’s consider the last things he discusses: stories of churches who are engaging & redeeming pop culture for the sake of the gospel.
Each church story is unique, but there seem to be some common threads [...]

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Dan on June 4th, 2008

This may be the best video yet. I was laughing throughout it. (By the way was anyone else reminded of Michael Scott in The Office by this guy?) It has a number of angles though.
First, have you ever dealt with a person like this? Someone who basically thinks his or her [...]

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Dan on May 22nd, 2008

The Incredible Shrinking Superpower?  Us?  The US?
 
This is a hard idea to get used to isn’t it?  Most people who are alive today think of the US as one of, if not the foremost nation state in the world.  While the US is still clearly an influential nation and will be for the foreseeable future, [...]

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