November 2011
8 posts
Unconvincing: Thoughts on Evangelism
We’ve been talking about evangelism in Grace Point College Ministry lately, trying to explain to postmoderns why sharing Jesus matters. (Message is here: http://sermon.net/gpAmplify/sermonid/119749219)
We really camped out on two major points.
1. We only evangelize that which we own.
Do people without kids walk around telling everyone how amazing it is to have kids? No! Why? ...
SameBucks: Thoughts on Memory
As a pastor, I sit with a whole lot of people over a whole lot of coffee.
One of the unintended consequences of this is a muddled memory map of area coffee shops. I can sit in a specific Starbucks and have 4 competing memories (complete with the differing feelings that go with them) just from sitting at one specific table.
This morning, I sat and simultaneously remembered a squirming...
Those Men Under the Bridge
I make a habit of dating my daughter. It really is rather unremarkable. We go to playgrounds we’ve never been to, sit at Starbucks and pretend to be sophisticated (like everyone else there), or take walks in interesting places.
Mostly, we go downtown. I’ve always liked exposing her to the variety of the city, whether it is the scale of a world bigger than her or the reality that...
Sermon entitled “Stir It Up” from...