Browsing All Posts published on »September, 2008«

Shallow Knowledge

September 29, 2008

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We live in the self-proclaimed Information Age.  Give me an hour and a decent internet connection and I can be an expert on anything.  If I don’t know it, I’ll Google it or Wikipedia it (two verbs that weren’t verbs just a few years ago).  If I know it but can’t prove it, I’ll go […]

Who’s Emerging for the Widows? Thoughts on Missional Partiality

September 22, 2008

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A lot has been said about the emerging and emergent movements, contemporary calls for relevance, the debated value of cultural analysis, and the Pauline call to be “all things to all men” (1 Cor 9).  These are the hot-button topics at the evangelical table (or behind the evangelical woodshed).  They are important topics and these […]

The Influence of a Father’s Prayer Life

September 11, 2008

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Scottish pioneer missionary John G. Paton reflecting on the influence of his father’s life of earnest, secret prayer: The “closet” was a very small apartment betwixt the other two [rooms of the house], having room only for a bed, a little table, and a chair, with a diminutive window shedding diminutive light on the scene.  […]

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