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The first phrase that came to mind when I sat down to review Don Williams’ new book Start Here was: “It is the new Mere Christianity”.
It may sound crazy, but that is what it is…Don Williams follows in the foot steps of CS Lewis in trying to put and describe the mysterious and [...]
[@more@]Way back on the radio dialA fire got lit inside a bright eyed childEvery note just wrapped around your soulFrom steel guitar to Memphis all the way to rock and roll
Woah I can hear 'em playingI can hear the ringing of a beat up old guitarWoah I can hear 'em sayingKeep [...]
The “sacrament of the present moment” is precisely that: it is a sacrament because it is the place of encounter with God. We encounter God in the here and now and nowhere else. There is no such thing as the past or the future – past and future are “mental constructs” that we learn [...]
The Eastern Orthodox Church has fascinated me for years.
They were the one church that remained faithful to the Teachings of the Apostles when all others broke apart and drifted into darkness. Unfortunately, the believers in the West do not know much about the Orthodox Church – shoot, I heard one man this [...]
No tomatoes or rotten veggies. Actually, worship Sunday wasn’t that bad…it was just a tad out of my confront zone..
As mentioned previously, our piano player (and main musician) was gone this Sunday so I had to lead worship on my 6-string guitar. While I can play, I’m not a “great” guitarist – [...]
How do you express the emotions within? Sometimes it is hard to find the words that reflex the twisting and turning of one’s emotions….
God has been stretching me this week in two different ways.
The first way is through a book about Eastern Orthodox Church written by a former Calvary Chapel pastor who [...]
My journey into the issue of women in church leadership began around my senior year of High School. During this time, my folks where helping start a small church with a female senior pastor. Even thought I knew this lady and respected her, I always felt uneasy sitting in her church. My mind said that it was wrong; yet my heart said that God was there and working….
It was all very confusing… I guess that is why in the end, I decided to follow Jesus’ advice to His disciples in Mark 9:40: “whoever is not against us is for us.” (i.e. As long as the Gospel was going forward, I would let God sort out the details.)
For years, I lived in this tension – sometimes leaning towards the egalitarian side (ie. man and women are equal in both role and essence); sometimes toward the complementarian view (ie. men and women are equal in essence but differ in roles).
Then I heard that Derek Morphew (a Kingdom Theologian that I trust and respect) just wrote a book about “going beyond the Complementarian/Egalitarian debate”… My inertest was peaked and I bought the book, “Different But Equal”, as soon as I could.[@more@]
The Book: “Different But Equal: Going Beyond the Complementarian/Egalitarian Debate”
One of the “un-written rules” of reading a book is to always read the author’s bio and introduction. These two things will tell you a lot about how the author is going to approach the subject matter (another rule is to check the publication date as it will give you some context for the material…).
This book is no different.
Continue reading Going Beyond the Complementarian/Egalitarian Debate
The first thing that came to my mind as I wrote this post was “old school.” My second thought was to laugh out loud at the thought of calling a 1987 conference “old school.”
Yet that is precisely what it is.
The conference I am referring to is John Wimber and John White’s “Come [...]
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