“I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and “Boy meets Girl” inspired me to kiss Josh Harris goodbye, but I may have to rethink my relative avoidance of his writing with the release of his latest: Dug Down Deep
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From Challies.com:
Top ten list of ways you know you’re working for a bad para-church ministry:
10. You incentivize financial giving by offering to send your donors inanimate objects that have been prayed over.
9. You’ve convened a committee to decide the name of your new Gulfstream jet.
8. Your ministry even has a Gulfstream jet.
7. Two words: scheduled revivals.
6. Your broadcast goes out only in tongues.
5. Every member of the board of directors has the same last name.
4. The guy you raised from the dead this morning is starting to smell pretty bad.
3. Your job postings include, “teeth-whitening a must.”
2. Your annual budget includes a line item for hairspray.
1. You read this list out loud and they fired you.
“In his recently published book, Raised With Christ: How The Resurrection Changes Everything, Adrian argues that the church has been neglecting the resurrection of Jesus. Christians do believe Jesus is alive today, its just that compared to the constant arguments about the meaning of his death, his resurrection sparks relatively little discussion. Inadvertently, we can become so focused on the good news that Christ died for our sins, that we almost forget he was “raised for our justification” (Romans 4:25)”
Read a free chapter here via The Resurgence
“As they rush to save lives in the wake of the Haiti earthquake, aid workers also must address myths about disaster relief among the American public. Edward Brown, relief director for Christian humanitarian organization World Vision, debunks five myths about disaster relief.”
“The United Nations has warned that extreme winter weather has killed more than a million livestock in Mongolia.The organisation said this was likely to harm the country’s food supply and worsen poverty.
It said 19 of Mongolia’s 21 provinces had been hit by heavy winter snow and -40C temperatures.”