Posted on July 22, 2008 by sheyduck
“Hey, there’s Steve. He’ll do it!”
I heard a friend say this as I was passing his table at Annual Conference this past June. The matter before the body at the time was a series of resolutions on various social justice issues. We had been debating them for around 45 minutes, and, I must add, in [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2008 by sheyduck
73 years ago yesterday, July 16, 1935, the first parking meters anywhere went to work in OKC.
Perhaps one wouldn’t expect such a novel concept and excellent revenue stream to be born in Oklahoma City.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an interesting piece for the New Yorker about big ideas and change. Apparently big, revolutionary ideas are not particualrly [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by sheyduck
Adam Hamilton posted a couple weeks ago about a “Biblical Worldview.” He cites Dave Kinnaman’s work in unChristian, which discusses the Barna Group’s research finding which “showed only 4% of adults have a biblical worldview as the basis of their decision-making.”
Barna defines a “Biblical Worldview” in this way:
For the purposes of the research, a biblical [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by sheyduck
Check out this title, courtesy of The Journal of Student Ministries:
Children not acquiring basic moral values as today’s adults poor role models
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by sheyduck
“You are unworthy. I am unworthy. We are all unworthy.”
So spoke a “worship leader” at a worship service I attended recently.
I understand what (I think) he was trying to say. I couldn’t help but wonder, though, how beneficial it is to stand before a crowd of youth and tell them in an [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2008 by sheyduck
I am in Abilene, Texas through Friday for JYMO (Jurisdictional Youth Ministry Organization). McMurry University is our gracious host.
During this week, I’ll be leading a workshop on “Exploring the Call.” The purpose of this workshop is to help youth understand and interpret the calling God has placed and is placing on their lives. [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2008 by sheyduck
Check out the word clouds of the books of the New Testament.
ht: ThinkChristian
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by sheyduck
I read an article in the Waco Trib about the latest Pew Poll on Religion, and immediately thought I ought to blog on it. Then I found Ben Witherington has already posted on it, so I thought I better read his before wasting cyberspace with my own.
So, then, on the way there, let me share [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by sheyduck
One of those things I first thought at least a decade ago finds expression in the printed word:
The idea of God as a being who is unchanging, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent and thus always right is more of a philosophical rendering than a biblical one. In metaphysical theology God is thought to be the perfect [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2008 by sheyduck
I had the great joy last Sunday of worshiping with Marvin United Methodist Church in Tyler, Texas. They have four worship services each Sunday - 2 at 8:45 and 2 at 11:00. At each time there is a contemporary and a traditional service.
In the contemporary service, one of the songs we sang, and one with [...]
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