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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There is a seedy underworld that most church goers know nothing about. It’s a world filled with buying and selling, profits and preaching, speeches and suckers the likes of which would shock the pants of Sister Betty and Brother John!
What is this 5-alarm scandal I speak of? Watch this YouTube video of Pastor James Merritt […]
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There is a great dialogue happening at Scot McKnight’s blog, Jesus Creed. His post “Thinking ofgrand rapids theological seminary Seminary?” was written in response to several emails he receives from readers and former students on whether they should attend seminary. He wrote that there are two things everyone should think about before going to seminary: 1) ministry is hard and 2) before you go to seminary and while you are in seminary be in some kind of ministry.
Both are great advice and I jumped in with a few comments of my own, but I thought I would post in this space why I chose to go to seminary. I think my reasons are fairly typical, but I also have some very personal reasons, too.
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I wanted to post another update quick. As I mentioned yesterday, we were invited to speak and present at a conference organized at the only evangelical university in all of europe. We shared the vision of reaching government with the message of jesus christ and christian involvement in government. I presented on the biblical basis […]
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Tomorrow Lisa and I will be speaking in front of a group of 75-80 Parliamentary, county, and city leaders and Members on what it looks like for Christians to engage missionally with government. The Christian church, understandably, is VERY resistant to getting involved with the government at any sort of level. When Senator Radu, a […]
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In ending this day, I want to thank the Creator of the Heavenlies for allowing me to play a small role in something majestic: His mission. Now, I actually deleted three words from the end of that last sentence-”on Capitol Hill”-because I realized it doesn’t matter where that mission is happening. The fact I am […]
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