A Video from The Future of Theological Education, passed along by Mike Breen.  Key questions indeed.

 I went to Gold's Gym to work out today and found out that I was really at a worship service.  

When John wrote that we should "not love the world or the things of the world," could he have pictured the Superbowl conversations among Christian men in churches around the United States?  

 This series has moved out of the blogosphere and into its own page(s).  Check it out under the Organic Church tab.

 Young Christian Artists are sometimes torn by the forces of their artistic communities (which preach fidelity to the subtlety of the craft) and their religious communities (which often want the Christian message to be loud and clear).  Is there an answer to this conflict?  

 One of these Christian clichés is from Psalm 46:  “Be still and know that I am God.”  Most of the times I’ve heard this verse from the pulpit (or the soapbox), it’s just spoken in passing and used as a self-interpreting truth.  But what does it really mean to “be still” in this sense?  Under what conditions should we “be still,” and under what conditions should we “be busy?” 

 One of the central tenets of the gospel is that you can have an intimate relationship with God, in which you know His thoughts and ways.  But what about that scripture that people are always quoting to prove that God is completely and utterly unknowable?  You know:  "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways"

 We are the fools, the dead...

 Whenever there is any personal or large-scale disaster, God-fearers will ask whether that disaster is a judgment from God for some specific sin, a trend rooted historically in the Flood.  However, Jesus makes it clear that He has a different agenda right now.

When well-meaning young people assert that the church should be more friendly, more welcoming, what exactly do they mean by that assertion?  I don't know, but here are my thoughts on the subject.  There are absolute lines of separation between Christians and non, but also the wide-open door of the mercy and grace and salvation manifesto of God.