Posts Tagged ‘ generosity ’

Do Nice Guys Finish Last at Gonzaga?

The “Sweet 16″ teams of the 2012 NCAA tournament are set. Millions of fans watched as their favorite team(s) were eliminated over the first two rounds – including two second-seeded teams! I’ve been a Gonzaga fan for the past 17 years and have watched their annual run in the tournament for 14 of those 17 [ READ MORE ]

Generous Justice

A century ago the conservative “fundamental” believers in the church came to believe that social ministries were at best a distraction from the spiritual ministry of the church if not a sign that these more liberal believers in the church had traded the true Gospel for a watered-down social gospel. This divide continued well into [ READ MORE ]

Gospel in Life

In my search for a good small group study companion to a series on outreach, I stumbled upon Tim Keller’s ‘gospel in life’ dvd and study.  It is comprehensive and both searching and practical and the dvd production quality is first-class. The eight sessions are: City – The World That Is Heart – Three Ways to [ READ MORE ]

Get Radical Together

In his previous book, Radical, David Platt presented a challenge to live a radical Christian life (is that redundant?) for a year. I wrote about Radical in a previous review. The five components of this challenge are both comprehensive and achievable. 1. pray for the entire world; 2. read through the entire Word; 3. sacrifice [ READ MORE ]

Generous in Portland

I was in Portland last weekend to help my son-in-law do some tiling in a condo unit that he manages for his grandfather. On the way to the condo the truck sputtered – apparently running out of gas (the gas gauge doesn’t work).  We made it to the the light at the top of the [ READ MORE ]

Does Anybody Miss Peanut Butter Bill?

At the church where I work we get a fair number of people off the street who call or come by asking for some level of financial support. For some it is a request for gas so that they can stay warm overnight in their car. For others it is a request for a bag [ READ MORE ]

Transformational Experiences – Yours, Mine, or Ours?

I first noticed it several years ago. I brought my high school youth group to a weekend conference. One of the musicians from the band talked about his spiritual journey and how at age 30 he had come to realize some things about his relationship with Jesus that weren’t right. Later the speaker talked about [ READ MORE ]

unchristrian

David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons collaborated on unchristian in 2007 using research from the Barna Group. Through careful review of extensive research, unchristian identifies six perceptions that younger Americans (Busters and Mosaics) hold of today’s evangelicals. The list is no surprise to those of us who live and work inside the evangelical community, and it’s [ READ MORE ]

Tipping & Tithing

I saw a FB post the other day that talked about the discrepancy between the 10% tithe and the 15% tip. I agree that on the surface this seems out of whack. But the more I thought about it I could see some differences between tips and tithes that seem to minimize the disparity. First, [ READ MORE ]

Living Water

Pretty compelling photos, aren’t they? We introduced the Advent Conspiracy to our church two years ago. This will be the third Christmas Eve we have taken an Advent Conspiracy offering to benefit the amazing work that Living Water, Int’l is doing to address the lack of clean drinking water around the world. Look to these [ READ MORE ]

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