Growing in Grace

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What is the Gospel?

Greg Gilbert looks carefully at how we define the gospel: part 1, part 2, part 3. I think it’s very helpful.
Here’s a summary:
I think we can get at an answer to all those questions by realizing that the Gospel of the Cross (that is, the narrow sense of “gospel”) is not just any part of [...]

Gospel Connections in Suburbia : subtext

Joe Thorn comments about sharing the gospel in our culture in this article: Gospel Connections in Suburbia : subtext.  He’s got some really good thoughts.  Here’s part of the article:
8 topics that can naturally connect to the Christian faith.
1. Corruption, evil and sin.
Conversations about corruption and evil are pretty common in my experience. Murderer’s go [...]

Two cool websites I just ran across

www.servantevangelism.com - ideas for evangelism
thesubtext.org - a blog on reaching suburban communities
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Back!

I’m back!  We had a great trip to Bogota, Colombia to help with a basketball camp and share Christ.  What an amazing country.  It was beautiful, cooler than sweltering Iowa in the summer, very hospitable people and so much variety.  I’ll try to get pictures up ASAP.  It was a great to see the passion [...]

Congratulations to the state of Israel on 60 years!

Anne Rice, the vampire novelist that several years ago turned from 30 years of atheism, said,
I stumbled upon a mystery without a solution, a mystery so immense that I gave up trying to find an explanation because the whole mystery defied belief. The mystery was the survival of the Jews…. It was this mystery that [...]

The Emerging Church, Willow Creek, and confusing patterns

This week evidently Willow Creek had a conference that invited Brian McClaren to be a part.  Willow Creek recently stated that they wanted to move toward a better discipleship model and from the press report from the conference they continue to see the need for that.  Unfortunately it looks like their doctrinal stance is still unclear [...]

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