Jan

Steve’s February 2011 Congregational Letter

Posted by Steve Published in Congregational Letters, St. Andrew's, _samp

One of the most amazing attributes Jesus demonstrated was his remarkable ability to get along with other people. Jesus made it easy – through His words, actions and attitude – for people to approach Him. All through the Gospels we see Him create an ambiance which welcomed people from every strata of society. Consider some [...]

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Jan

Adventure Seeker Finds Home Base

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

It was a nice surprise to open the Post & Courier and see this article by Angel French. Angel is a member of St. Andrew’s and wrote this for the “Moxie” section of the paper. There wasn’t a lot of moving around during my childhood, but summers and school breaks were full of travel, sometimes [...]

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Jan

Healing On The Streets Training Tonight!

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Empowered Living, Mission, St. Andrew's

Healing on the Streets is a training event hosted by St. Andrew’s. There will be two times of teaching about how to be a part of a team offering healing on the streets of our community. The training continues on Saturday morning and on Saturday afternoon we’ll leave the building to demonstrate the Kingdom with compassion [...]

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Jan

Friday Morning Video – Why City Church?

Posted by Steve Published in Changed Lives, Culture, Mission, Video, _samp

George Brewer, Todd Simonis, Daron Taylor, Tim Winkler, Bill Weiss and I just returned from the Anglican 1000 conference, talking with others about planting new Anglican churches. In this video, Todd, Daron, and I talk about how St. Andrew’s City Church came about. The video was shot on the stage of the Music Farm.

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Jan

The Osteen Moment (including video)

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Scripture, Video

Sitting in the DFW airport after having taxied out to the runway only to have a system failure cause us to turn around and deplane, I’ve had some time to catch up on a little Al Mohler. And today’s article is a good one. And, having read it, I have to applaud the courage of [...]

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Jan

Around the Horn – 01.27.11

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

The Church in a Post Feminist World In the past decade, we have been transitioning from a “feminist” to a “post-feminist” era. What’s the difference between the two? In the feminist era, feminist ideas were being developed—now they are fully formed. In the feminist era they were touted by philosophers and academics—now they are spouted [...]

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Jan

City Church Article in Today’s Post & Courier

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

You never know if what you think you said the other person heard. Last week Adam Parker, the religion writer for the Post & Courier, interviewed Todd and I about the work at City Church. Today the story ran. I was pleased. Adam did a great job of both listening and writing, capturing what we [...]

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Jan

Friday Morning Video – Don’t Walk & Text

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Video

Security video at a sububan Pennsylvania shopping mall caught this video of a woman falling into a fountain while texting. Both ABC and CBS News have reported that she’s hired a lawyer and is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit.

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Jan

“Christians Are Hypocrites” – Yes . . .

Posted by Steve Published in Changed Lives, Empowered Living

Though it’s not at the top of the list as to why people reject the Christian faith, the accusation of hypocrisy is certainly a top five reason. Regularly, I speak with folk who feel that they cannot identify with the church or with Christians because they see so much hypocrisy and judgmental behavior. Ironically, charge demonstrates the [...]

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Jan

Around the Horn – 01.20.11

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

Seems So Long Ago, Nancy From Tim Challies: Anyone who knows the work of Leonard Cohen will recognize that this is also the title of one of his songs. Over the years I have had a fascination with this song. It is an awful song, in many ways, leaving Nancy a legacy that few would want—a [...]

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