We have Christian TV, Christian music, Christian bookstores, Christian clothing, Christian candy (i.e. ‘Testamints‘), and many other things that are often ridiculous and even offensive. American Christians continue to isolate themselves from those who supposedly need to hear our message. I’ve come across a couple of new examples recently that I was not [...]

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I received my newest issue of Relevant magazine last week, and there were several articles I wanted to post about. Here’s a couple to start with.
Jesusland
First is an interview with Ben Folds, whose song “Jesusland” gets a fair amount of attention in the article. (Lyrics to “Jesusland” can be found here, song can [...]

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I found some parodies of the Mac vs PC commercials via Lee Hodges blog. I think they are pretty clever and make a good point. As Christians, who are we? For what are we known? Are we Christians in name only? I posted several posts last year around this time [...]

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I just finished reading Robert Lewis’ book The Church of Irresistible Influence, which is a book about how the church can build bridges to the community around them. He uses his own church, Fellowship Bible Church here in Little Rock, as an example, basically, and in some ways is telling the story of how FBC [...]

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Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith is out on DVD today. I was a huge Star Wars fan growing up. I saw the first one as a 10-year-old in the summer of 1977. Some friends and I were at a movie early that summer when they showed the trailer for Star Wars. [...]

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Perhaps it’s not just a coincidence that this has been on my mind so much recently, and the Beyond The Gates Of Splendor DVD was released last week. I posted a couple of quotes from Spencer Burke’s book the other day and mentioned I would try to post some comments about it later. I’ve been [...]

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