Entering the room - I tried to create an environment that was different from any thing people were use to. Lights were shut off. Candles were scattered. Tables were covered with kraft paper from Montana’s Restaurant. Crayons were distributed for doodling. Music like U2’s “City of Blinding Lights” played.
I did [...]

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See the last three posts if you’re still catching up. Some people say ‘preaching is dead’. I often think so as well, but I still believe our post-Christian culture opens new opportunities for the ‘preacher’ today.
Postmodernity blurs the lines between everything - fact and fiction, on and offline, news and entertainment. [...]

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Some excellent thoughts coming from the discussion in the last two posts (1 and 2) on preaching. I’m going to continue discussing preaching as valuable in postmodern contexts where we still have an audience. However, I believe this must not be reduced to the transfer of information, which it often is. [...]

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I still believe in preaching, but there are its share of challenges.
Where the church has in many ways led western culture for most of the past millennia, during the past fifty years, the culture has leaped forward, lapping around the church; leaving it in the dust. Today the church is seen as the [...]

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I love my church, but an ear-aching silence hit me while I was sitting in the sanctuary trying to listen to the message today.
200 people sitting quietly in one moment in time. That’s an awful lot of people to not be expressing themselves.
However, I still believe in preaching. I’ll post a few thoughts [...]

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Alright. To follow up the Mosaic Movement Resources as promised, here’s some articles, audio’s and video’s for you Rob Bell fans. I’ve been downloading all of their sermons since back in 2002, but again, to be on the safe side, all links here are just what’s currently available on the web.
For those of you who [...]

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Amazing. Read the transcript below.
Video clip on cnn here.
Bono’s best sermon yet: Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
If you’re wondering what I’m doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I’m certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It’s certainly not because I’m a rock [...]

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