Category: quote
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mark labberton on “the lima bean gospel”
This year The Christian Vision Project is asking the question, Is our gospel too small? The most recent reply come from Mark Labberton, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Berkly, CA. To answer the question Labberton asks a question of his own (my kind of guy!), Why does the gospel look to so many like…
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2 preaching quotes
Because I occassionaly preach, these two quotes stood out when I read them this week. With a sermon, the same structure would be used with the addition of another old saw. A joke, a quote, an illustration and a prayer. The prayer serves as an additional conclusion, in which the preacher again summarizes the main…
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a quote from leslie newbign
In light of everyone’s generosity lately, this quote from Leslie Newbigin seemed appropriate to share when I read it on Wednesday. Jesus is both totally compassionate and totally uncompromising about what is involved in coming to the fullness of life. There can be no compromise with false ideas about what it is that makes for…
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judging church
The following paragraph from Missional Church jumped out when I read it last week, All too typical is the woman who, after attending worship and disliking the sermon, asked her visiting friend, “Now tell me, what did you get out of that worship service?” The woman was taken aback when the friend replied, “That’s not…
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the best stuff is in the comments
Today the plan was to post a review of the last three chapters of The Culturally Savvy Christian. I’m going to hold off on that for a few days because there have been some GREAT comments left on the blog this week that you shouldn’t miss. Here are a few highlights, but make sure to…
David W. Swanson 