Jan

Tim Keller Offers His Impressions of “The Shack”

Posted by Steve Published in Books, Culture, Scripture, Theology

There’s been a spate of recent critiques of The Shack (three in the last week). I wonder why?
Most interesting (to me) was Tim Keller’s article offering his impressions of the best-selling book. Personally, I was pleased to find him articulate similar concerns I voiced when the book came out a couple of years ago. While [...]

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Jan

Friday Morning Video – Brian Regan

Posted by Steve Published in Just For Fun, Video

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Jan

St. Andrew’s Men’s Retreat

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Relationships, St. Andrew's, _samp

In just over a week, February 5-7, we will gather at at the Litchfield Beach Resort for our 2010 Men’s Retreat. It has been wonderful to watch our retreats grow from that first weekend away several years ago when Alan Kilpatrick and I led teaching and ministry down at Camp St. Christopher to where we [...]

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Jan

Around The Horn – 1.28.10

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Oakland A’s Lose Top Prospect to Priesthood
As a top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Grant Desme might’ve gotten the call every minor leaguer wants this spring. Instead, he believed he had another, higher calling.
Face to Faith
Harriet Baber in the Guardian (UK) writes of American Megachurch Evangelicals: Popular evangelical Christianity is religiously vacuous. It is directed [...]

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Jan

Steve’s February 2010 Congregational Letter

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Relationships, St. Andrew's, _samp

This past Sunday after worship one of our members gave me an article entitled, “Love in the time of hooking up.” The article, descriptive of emerging young adult practice, observes, “for young people, the trend is sex first, dating (maybe) later.” Then it wonders, “is this healthy?”
What do you say beyond “no?”

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Jan

Great Morning Talk By John Yates

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Scripture

For those of you who were at church this morning you heard a wonderful sermon by John Yates, the Rector of The Falls Church, addressing the heart of the gospel. If you missed it, you will want to listen here.

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Jan

Friday Morning Video – Mark Driscoll on Spurgeon

Posted by Steve Published in History, Leadership, Video

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Jan

Around the Horn – 1.21.10

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Does God Hate Haiti?
This from Al Mohler: The earthquake in Haiti, like every other earthly disaster, reminds us that creation groans under the weight of sin and the judgment of God. This is true for every cell in our bodies, even as it is for the crust of the earth at every point on the [...]

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Jan

A Nice Shout-Out

Posted by Steve Published in Leadership, Relationships

This past Sunday a young (early 20’s) and recent graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary worshiped with us. We had a nice little chat after the service in the lobby. This morning I received this email. I’m sure we’ll talk again. But, if in the meantime anyone is interested in a clearly insightful young [...]

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Jan

9Marks Journal: The New Evangelical Liberalism

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Mission, Theology

Justin Taylor over at Between Two Worlds has this great post from the 9Marks Journal. Lots of good reading in the latest 9Marks ejournal (also available in pdf).

Here’s the list of articles and reviews:

THE MINDSET OF THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
What kind of pastor is susceptible [...]

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