I need people in my life who are enough like me that we can connect, but different enough that they stretch me and make me more than I am without them. Sean Cooper is just such a person. His office is three doors down the hall from mine at Northland. In fact he is in [...]
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Reblogged from Refusing to Tiptoe: As we were leaving the Chimpanzee movie last week, I expressed to Caleb my frustration with the bad guys (or evil chimps) in the movie. Caleb paused. Then, using his gift of goodness, he gently corrected his mother. You’re only seeing what the producer of the movie wanted you to [...]
Reblogged from Refusing to Tiptoe: This week, we are preparing our hearts for Easter Sunday using a Holy Week Worship Guide (thank you, Nick). Caleb and I were together on our Holy Week journey one morning when I read, Each year, thousands of faithful pilgrims made the trek to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, and [...]
Why Forgetting the Church and Just Following Jesus is Not an Option
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Christians and Culture, community, UncategorizedI am not great at sound-bite theology. You know the kind I am talking about. It’s those pithy little sayings, often in 140 characters or less that seem so spiritual, deep, and insightful. They are easy to remember getting passed on time and again until they become accepted as a given, collective, cultural, truism. To [...]
The Trayvon Martin Case: What Would Jesus Say to Sanford Florida, You, and Me?
Posted: March 30, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Christ, Daniel Kahneman, George Zimmerman, Jesus, John Ortberg, John Piper, love your neighbor, Mark 12:31, Matthew 7:5, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Romans 12:15, Trayvon Martin
I have done all I could to avoid writing about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. It seemed obvious that there was no need for one more voice to be put into the cacophony of anger, confusion, and dismay over what is at the bottom line an unbelievably painful tragedy for two families. But two things have led [...]
The video of Week Ten of our study of Genesis is now online. This week begins the life of Abraham and his call from God. Interesting how he can be incredibly faithful and daring in one moment and afraid and disobedient the next. Genesis Week 10 Video Dan
Check out our online study of Genesis presented each week at Northland, A Church Distributed. Look forward to reading your comments and ideas on this foundational book of the Bible. Week 9 Video of Genesis Study Dan
The Danger of Sound-bite Christianity or Why I Love the Religion Jesus Loves
Posted: March 17, 2012 in UncategorizedChristians really think they are different from the rest of the world. In certain ways that is hopefully true. At least it’s supposed to be true. Jesus made it clear that His followers are supposed to love God more than anything or anyone else in the world and to love their neighbors as much as [...]
The Provocative Jesus
Posted: March 11, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: dorothy sayers, Jesus, radical christianity
This was read at the end of the service at Northland today by my good friend Vernon Rainwater. He had just finished a great message on rethinking our view of God. This extended quote from Dorothy Sayers is the epitome of what it means to be a Provocative Christian. Love this and hope you will [...]
For week eight I was in Egypt but my good friend Pastor Gus Davies did a great job teaching on God’s Covenant with Noah. I am sure you will enjoy this. Skip to the 15 minute mark of the video for the start of the class. Genesis Week 8 Video Dan
