Dave Black on Christians and Nationalism
He posted an excellent article on his web site titled A Lesson from Ethiopia. Further comment at Mt. Tirzah Baptist Church.
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Ministry Mistakes (or not)
The Internet Monk has a list of his most bone-headed ministry mistakes. It’s worth a read. Some of them aren’t really mistakes, in my view. For example, #4: 4. Two of my deacons made a big deal about me taking the a.m. service ten minutes too long two weeks in a row, and they humiliated…
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Mistakes, Love, and Parenting
… or any other human relationship, for that matter. I got back yesterday from displaying books at Methodist annual conference for Alabama/Northwest Florida. We had the joy of having our daughter Janet join us there to help out, and we got to chat a bit. We were talking about raising children–she has two–and I mentioned…
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A Thought on Leviticus 16:13
I was struck by the wording of Leviticus 16:13 tody. There is a long list of instructions, followed by the clause “that he may not die.” It’s just 2 words in Hebrew. It seems to me that the Israelites approached the issue of God’s judgment against them very differently than we do. Rather than seeing…
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New Methodist Blogger – Rev. Geoffrey Lentz
I’ve been meaning to post this for a few days, but it’s been busy, as you can tell from my low level of blogging. Geoffrey Lentz is the associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Pensacola, and a former student of mine. In fact, I met Geoffrey in the first class I taught for…
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Christian Carnival CCLXIX – Summer Vacation Edition
I planned to get this posted early this morning, but my job–you know, my paying work–intervened. Advance copies of one book arrived from the printer yesterday, and then the first release copies of two more showed up today. For a small publisher, that’s a heavy couple of days! In any case, even though it’s not…
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Way to Go Omaha 1st UMC
I really like this: Why do I like it? Because besides collecting some help for folks in need, this gives kids a taste of the experience of others. Hopefully it will stimulate their thinking and result in many new ideas as the years go by. We need to harness the imagination and energy of the…
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Christian Carnival #CCLXXIX Coming Here
I will be posting Christian Carnival #CCLXXIX some time tomorrow. In the meantime you have some time yet to submit your best work from the past week. If you are new to the carnival, Jeremy Pierce has an excellent plug for it here.