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Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Why I wrote the Pastoral Letter to the Cornerstone Board of Trustees

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This video delves into the passion and concern that inspired and shaped the letter, as well as that of my collaborators in the project, Past...

Sermon Video: The LORD and Abraham "cut" a covenant - Genesis 15:7-21

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As a sign to offer reassurance about the future to Abraham, the LORD utilizes an Ancient Near Eastern custom involving the cutting-in-two of...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Illustrating the types of cultural response available to Christians with the Barbie movie as the example

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  Full disclosure: I haven't seen the Barbie movie.  If my 8 year old daughter hadn't been out of town with my wife Nicole since it ...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" and the dangers of conflation

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  Much has been said about country music singer Jason Aldean's recent song and accompanying music video, "Try That In A Small Town....
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #26: Luke 18:9-14

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Luke 18:9-14     New International Version 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus t...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

Mitigating racism can't wait: Why Pastor Robert Jeffress is wrong

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1. The Gospel isn't only about saving souls. One of the things that has been misconstrued, particularly by some Protestants, and o...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Where Mayor Pete Buttigieg's interpretation of Scripture goes awry.

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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine's Alex Morris, presidential candidate, and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigie...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

The challenge of being salt and light - Matthew 5:13-16

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Matthew 5:13-16 New International Version (NIV) 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Sermon Video: Women should be silent? 1 Corinthians 14:29-35

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As the Apostle Paul continues to explain the need for peace, not disorder, in the Church, he emphasizes that when the Word of God is shared,...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Fight or Flight? Self-Segregation is the death of the Church's Gospel mission

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The list of companies being boycotted by various Christians and/or conservatives has grown rather long: Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens, CSV, Dis...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

After another mass shooting, what can be said?

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Update: This post was originally written in August of 2019 after mass shootings occurred on consecutive days: The El Paso, Texas Walmart sho...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Sermon Video: Propriety in Worship - 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

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Having dealt with issues relating to how Christians ought to function within the outside culture, Paul now turns to the proper function of t...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

The fault in an argument about the Catholic Church firing a gay teacher

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 Below is the text of an article written by Ellen Kobe, a professed Catholic.  I will intersperse my response to her argumentation (not the ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Sermon Video: Humbling ourselves for the sake of the Gospel - 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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Are we responsible for presenting the Gospel to the Lost in ways that mesh with their cultural and intellectual/emotional state?  The Apostl...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The Culture War rages on; the Church's role in it is toxic.

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The recently concluded United Methodist Church General Conference 2019 is the latest example in a disturbing trend of the politics and vicio...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Pursuit of Happiness?

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"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" may be the unofficial motto of America, but it is not, much to the chagrin of many, ...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Where society leads, should the Church follow?

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** Disclaimer **  This post is not about politics (none of mine are), so please don't project this into that realm.  All human beings de...