Monday, April 27, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry I called Seven Minutes of Pure Inspiration. Several friends passed along a link to the YouTube video of British woman performing on the UK version of American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent. My name for that post is accurate – at least for me.
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Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Alabama, Barrett, Bear the Marine, Captain Richard Phillips, Coronado, Maersk, Navy Seals, pirates, Somalia, USS Bainbridge on April 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Monday, April 20, 2009
When some of these high drama incidents are reported in detail, I find myself imagining what it must have been like to be there in person as an eyewitness to the shocking events.
Many years ago, I preached a sermon about Jesus and his disciples and apparently my propensity to fill in some [...]
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Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged agnostic, Albert Mohler, Altizer, atheist, civil religion, Death of God, Easter egg hunt, Easter Sunday, Jesus, religious right, resurrection, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on April 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Monday, April 13, 2009
In an era of troubled times for print media, NEWSWEEK Magazine published a cover they hoped might stir up the same sort of ruckus TIME provoked back in April of 1966. Time’s jet-black cover back then posed an incendiary question: “Is God Dead?”
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Posted in LeaderFOCUS on April 5, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Monday, April 6, 2009
It’s been more than four years ago now that I felt a crushing grief over turning my back on pastoral ministry at the tender age of thirty-three. (For you students of the Gospels, you’ll recognize that as a curiously poignant age.)
On a Saturday afternoon out in the country in the aftermath of [...]
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