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Category Archives: The Joshua Challenge
We Amplify What We Fear
“Fear’s a dangerous thing, it can turn your heart black, you can trust.It’ll take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust.” – Bruce Springsteen I can still vividly remember sitting at the front of church Sunday after … Continue reading
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Tagged disunity, Evangelicals, fear, reconciliation, Tribalism
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Metrics of Disunity: Whataboutism
Repentance in scripture (from the Greek word metanoeo) means to have a change of mind. It’s demonstrated by a complete change of direction; a 180 degree turn from the past. But repentence must start with a reckoning, by acknowledging how we have “missed the mark.” And without that initial acknowledging, it’s like sewing up a wound without first cleaning out the debris. Continue reading
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Tagged division, Evangelicals, populism, reckoning, whataboutism
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Repairers of Broken Walls
There’s a story about a building manager who once asked his architect to meet him on the 42nd floor. A set of cracks had suddenly appeared and he couldn’t figure out why. After waiting several hours, the manager found the … Continue reading
Blessed are the Pure in Heart for Through Them, People Will See God
Not long ago, I attended a funeral celebrating the life of Eva Wangen, an elderly lady in our church whom my wife had known. She had lived a full, engaged, life, marked by a purity in heart and a love … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelicals, fundamentalism, LGBTQ, orthodoxy, populism
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Of Rabbit Holes and Echo Chambers
A simple corrective for reducing the influence of tribally induced rabbit holes and echo chambers Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive biases, populism, post-election lawsuits, rabbit holes, Tribalism
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Then Why Should They Believe Us When We Proclaim Jesus As Lord?
Prologue: I’ve been wrestling whether or not to publish this post as the partisan divide is so acute. Yet MLK’s observation that “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” seems right. So the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 election, Dominion, election conspiracies, election fraud, legal challenges
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To Repeal and Replace
I just watched a Facebook video from a pastor lamenting about the deep division across America. He had never seen such a divide and opined that our differences stemmed from differing worldviews of individuals and parties. On the one side … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical values, biblical worldview, culture wars, Evangelicals, public square
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What Should be our Christian Values in the Public Square?
It’s like two ships passing through the night, two strangers talking in different languages. Both sides thinking they are on solid ground, bolted into bedrock. But with each bedrock resting on differing tectonic plates headed towards differing locales. I know … Continue reading