Late last year I began a (unfinished) series of blog posts on “the unoffensive gospel of Jesus.” The idea was to counter the crazy notion that “the gospel is offensive,” something I’ve heard far too often from Christians. So a few months ago I thought I would turn it into a book! I took this [...]
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This is a message I shared with the community I am helping to pastor as an intern outside of Grand Rapids. We are wrapping up a 20 month study through the Book of Mark, and I had the opportunity to share about the very Human Jesus we see in the Garden of Gethsemane. Enjoy the [...]
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Ch. 1-3
In my last post on Doug Pagitt’s new book A Christianity Worth Believing I posed a number of questions in response to a paragraph from the first page of the book. In that paragraph, Doug basically said he no longer believes in the “versions of Christianity that have prevailed for the last [...]
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Ch. 1-3
Because I am suppose to be on summer break from school, though still in (and rather bored with) summer classes, I picked up Doug Pagitt’s freshly released book “A Christianity Worth Believing” last evening. I’ve ‘followed’ Doug and his ministry at Solomon’s Porch and writings since my own ’shift’ three and a [...]
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So about a month ago a high school senior whom I mentor at the church I’ve begun interning at wrote me an email. Here is a piece of it:
Oh! And I have a question for Jon, but I’ll run it by you quick too. I want to organize a dinner for our lunch ladies at [...]
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A month ago I began a periodic series of posts highlighting conversations I have with a very bright, curious and astute college friend I mentor. He is a junior psychology major and loves to wrestle with the scriptures and theology, and I have the huge privilege of wrestling with him and wading through his questions, [...]
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Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This is [...]
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