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Monday, November 13, 2006

Proud of my Trustee Chairman!

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"Trustees . . . ." Simply the mention of the term has seemed to polarize Southern Baptists in recent days. Over the past year, m...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

October 31: Is there More to this Day than Halloween?

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Tonight as I sit and write, parents are walking their children around a mall, or church parking lot, or to neighbors houses in the effort to...
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Homophobia: What I learned from Tyra Banks, and Shirley Phelps

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When I sit down to watch television, my usual fare includes bulletts, buildings blowing up, car chases, and the like. Suffice it to say that...
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Can Joshua go to Memphis? A Call for Peace

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In may of this year, over 30 Southern Baptists drafted a statement known as "The Memphis Declaration." Last week, another Souther...
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Friday, September 29, 2006

Boxers or Briefs: an Example

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After writing the post below, I came across a great example of the "boxer-wearing evangelical" here: http://www.imperishableinheri...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Boxers or Briefs? A Theological Reflection

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My apologies to my female readership for the frankness of the metaphor, but I honestly could not think of a better comparative picture for t...
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Rosie and the "Radicals": Is there truth to her statements?

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It seems that evangelicals are in an uproar over Rosie O'Donnell's recent tirade during which our beliefs are compared with those wh...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Church Planting: The Podcast!

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Resources designed to help church planters bring a new congregation to life can be found in books, on discs, and online. Likewise, stories o...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Growing in Blasphemy

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I thought to myself "surely, my wife misunderstood him." One morning last week, she came into our bedroom as I was getting out of ...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Mainline Mess

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Even a far-left publication like the Los Angeles Times gets it! But apparently, the most liberal wings of the church are still in denial ab...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Matt Chandler, and More Thoughts on Trying to be a Hero!

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A great paradox regarding pastoral ministry is seen in the way pastors claim that they realize they aren't "Superman," while s...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

Mel Gibson and the Myth of Christian Heroism

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Less than three years after producing a phennomenal depiction of Christ's death and resurrection, Oscar-winning actor and director Mel G...
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Monday, July 24, 2006

The Harvest we Don't See: A Call for a Renewed North American Missiology

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Over the past two decades, Evangelicals in North America have been very effective in reaching the lost, discipling them to maturity, and as ...
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Thursday, June 08, 2006

A Blogging Break, and Five Books Every Pastor Should Read this Year.

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One of the more ruinous aspects of my seminary education is that I emerged with both a degree and an addiction to books. As one who reads se...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Calvinism and Contention: Who is Stirring Up all the Trouble?

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So that you will know up front, this post is about Calvinism, and the next will be about the place of women in the church. I thought, since ...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Welcome to the Real World! (A Review of Driscoll's "Confessions...")

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Reading most narrative resources on church planting is very much like trying to leave reality and live in a dream world. The inspiring but a...
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Dr. Joel Rainey is an imperfect, but growing follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Amy, father of three, and Lead Pastor at Covenant Church, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He serves on the adjunct faculty of two seminaries, and the author of three books.
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