Month May 2008

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Back from Harvard, no. 1

I’m back home after a week at Harvard University where I attended a course on “the art and practice of leadership development.” The course was led by Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz, who co-authored Leadership on the Line. It was…

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A Third Place

An important aspect to being a Gospel-shaped, Gospel-driven church is hospitality. We must learn to think of our facilities as not only being our place but our neighbor’s place as well. The word “hospitality” has come to mean little more…

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Carl Trueman…

What do Dylan Thomas, Karl Marx, Jerry Springer and Charles Hodge have in common? The answer is….. Carl Trueman! His inaugural lecture, “Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light” has just been published in the latest volume of the…

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Today in 1967

On this day in 1967 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) adopted (what we now call) the 1967 Confession, a document largely influenced by the liberalization of the doctrine of Scripture (especially by Karl Barth).…

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Prince Caspian

While Disney’s Narnia is not my Narnia, the question is will it be yours?   Full disclosure: I am by no means an unbiased reviewer.  The Chronicles of Narnia played a significant role in my coming to faith in Christ. …

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Blogging For a Year

I started blogging last May. I have enjoyed the process. It has helped me to be more observant about what is going on around me and in the world. It has also helped develop in me more discipline to reflect…