Jesus – Page 19 – Red Letter Christians

Identity Crisis: A Jesus that is Insipid and Powerless

January 8, 2012

I sense that the church is in the midst of a serious, but potentially transforming, identity crisis. Several observations have led me to this conclusion. On one hand, I see a church that appears to have fo...

The Healing Scent of Holiness

Morf Morford

January 4, 2012

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In my city, any many others, there are occasional small clusters of earnest people outside Planned Parenthood offices. They hold garish signs of bloody fetuses and they sometimes chant or sing. Sometimes th...

Christians, Take Up Your Mats and Walk

Christian Piatt

December 27, 2011

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There’s an old joke that speaks directly to one of the biggest issues holding back Churches these days: How many Christians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Change? Who said anything about change?!?! I...

The Challenge Of Keeping The Real Christ In Christmas

Craig M. Watts

December 23, 2011

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Like most kids, when I was growing up I looked forward to Christmas with eager anticipation. With each passing day the excitement heightened. I constantly fantasized about how wonderful it would be...

The Better Beard at Christmas: Santa or John the Baptist?

Kent Annan

December 23, 2011

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buy cheap cialisI’ve never donned a beard or red suit for Christmas. So far that’s my personal line. But something happens when you have kids. Categories of cool, kitsch, hip, or tacky no longer matter m...

Of Mice And MIN…ISTERS (Ode to Advent and Axl Rose)

Bert Montgomery

December 18, 2011

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I've heard it said that Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was, and still is, an angry, angry man. I have no reason to doubt it. There simply is no denying that they literally burst forth into the nation's con...

Taking the SEX out of Sex-mas!

Kurt Willems

December 16, 2011

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Then one foggy Sex-mas Eve, Victoria came to say: Consumer with your eyes so wide, buy this bra and panties tonight. Twenty-year-old young women wearing unmentionables stare into the camera saying: “Tell me ...

Occupy the Manger: How God Does Revolution

Morgan Guyton

December 12, 2011

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Occupy the manger. I’m sick of phrases that begin with occupy. But that’s what God did. He occupied a manger in the form of a baby born to a poor pregnant teen whose fiancé believed she was a virgin and refu...

All I want for Christmas is the Real Christmas story

Morf Morford

December 8, 2011

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It doesn’t seem that much to ask. With all the passion, energy and hype around Christmas, you’d think there would be some interest in refining our focus on what we were really celebrating. Frenzied shopping,...

Jesus, Forgiving Economic Debts and Personal Sins

Jeremy John

November 14, 2011

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In the Lord's prayer, our daily prayer, we pray, "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." As we forgive our debtors. Forgive us our debts. In Aramaic, debt and sin are the same word, ḥōb. So...