what would jesus brew?

Many people have asked me where they can get the T-shirt I wear with the easy-going metrosexual image of Jesus with the line “What would Jesus Brew?”  Well the wait is over.   You can get them here…

They are great conversation starters and the proceeds go to supporting some great friends in their mission to Third [...]

inspirational v. institutional leadership (take II)

INFLUENCE is a hard thing to quantify. But you know it when you encounter it. It is as interesting as well as profound that the NT word for authority is exousia, which quite literally means “out of oneself’ (out of one’s own substance.) When one probes the nature of spiritual authority in scripture, it [...]

inspirational v. institutional leadership

THE Academy Award winning movie depicting the life of Mohandas Gandhi opens with the state funeral of the remarkable man who had so transformed India. An American radio commentator narrates the meaning of his life to the rest of the world. In his narration, he observes that before them was a man who was [...]

is there a difference between radical & moderate islam?

I don’t normally comment on political topics on this blog, but I have long held that fundamentalist Islam is actually the normative form of it and not the other way around. The moderates claim that radical Islam is the aberration, what do you think? Check this out…

I am not merely trying to be belligerent [...]

passing the baton

Closely linked to the idea of the imitation of Christ is the idea of embodiment, which involves the dual tasks of patterning, and modeling. When we look at the phenomenal movements in history we will find that these people movements found a way to translate the grand themes of the Gospel (Kingdom of God, [...]

lastest take on china II…through rc eyes

In an article in the National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe, John L. Allen Jr gives some reasons why Roman Catholicism has not grown beyond that of the population in China…..

In a 2003 interview, then-Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong (now a cardinal) said that Protestants are “winning” the contest for the souls of the [...]

latest take on china

LED BY A booming Pentecostal population, the number of Christians in China has mushroomed in the last half century to make it the third largest Christian nation in the world, behind only the United States and Brazil. About 900,000 Protestants lived in the country at the time of the Communist takeover in 1949. Today China [...]

obedience as worship

When one looks at the Gospel records themselves it is clear that “…Jesus did not ask for homage but obedience. He always had much more to lose from his friends than from his enemies. Admiration has always blunted his sword. It serves to dull the original outrage of his mission. Veneration assumes [...]

50 ways to leave your lover

Human beings, including Jesus’ disciples, have become artful in developing ways in which to escape from the all-encompassing claims of God in Jesus. Any discussion about true encounters with God must therefore include ways in which we try and avoid him, to qualify the God relationship, to ameliorate the tension he creates in our lives. [...]

belief in belief

I have been hanging around Evangelical circles for most of my Christian life. but truth to tell, I was brought to the Lord by some real crazy, chandelier-swinging, Pentecostals. I had a really profound, life-defining experience, through their amazing ministry. They didn’t seem to know much about the faith, but they knew [...]

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