Category: book
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consuming jesus
This morning I finished reading Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church by Paul Louis Metzger. This is one of the best books I’ve read this year (along with Surprised by Hope and The Gospel and a Pluralist Society). Because I may be reviewing the book elsewhere, I’ll hold off from…
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christian witness as invitation to pilgrimage
Missional Church is one of those books I return to with some regularity. On Wednesday, while working from Caribou on my upcoming sermon I came across the following passage. After showing it to Bob (who was also working out of the coffee shop), he said something like, “You should just stand up, read that, pray…
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christopher wright, “the mission of God”
A friend of mine keeps a blog called Occasional Cigarettes. This guy is working on a masters degree in linguistics and apparently his blog title is something that a linguist would find amusing… but it goes right over my head. Anyway, the other day he quoted Christopher Wright from his latest book, The Mission of…
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jesus for president
The book I’ve spent the most time with over the past month is Jesus for President, by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. My friend Skye sent me the advanced copy for me to review for Leadership. I then heard Shane speak at NPC and got to interview both Shane and Chris on the phone a…
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novatian (2)
Here’s the 5th and final reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. He received the name that is above every name, which we must certainly understand as nothing other than the name of God. For it belongs to God to be above all. So it follows that the name that is above…
David W. Swanson 