The Faith of “Evel” Knievel

“But Knievel knew people were praying for him, including his daughter’s church, his ex-wife’s church, and the hundreds of people who wrote letters urging him to believe. And then something indescribable happened during Daytona Bike Week this March. “I don’t know what in the world happened. I don’t know if it was the power of [...]

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Scot McKnight on Commentaries on the Gospels and Acts

“Matthew R.T. France, The Gospel of Matthew Craig Keener, Matthew Mark M.D. Hooker, Mark [I’m a bit surprised by the price of this one so I’ll mention a 3rd.] R.T. France, The Gospel of Mark [Though based on the Greek text, he doesn’t overdo it.] B. Witherington, The Gospel of Mark Luke J.B. Green, The [...]

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i just noticed that…

…blogger now allows you to select “please notify me of follow-up comments” when you leave a comment on someone’s blogger blog. If they had had that feature some mos ago, I might not have switched to wordpress. Anyone know how to do that on wordpress.com?

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bibliomaniacs rejoice!

“we are expanding the scope of this blog to be the place for practical insights from books that leaders are reading! I remembered that Howard Hendricks used to say that “leaders are readers”, and wouldn’t it be great to have one blog that focuses on what leaders are reading these days.So we’ve invited more than [...]

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Breaking News: Rasmussen has Huckabee in the Lead in the Iowa Republican Caucus

“The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Iowa caucus finds former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 28% of the vote, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 25% support, and everyone else far behind. National frontrunner Rudy Giuliani gets just 12% of the vote in Iowa at this time while former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson [...]

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Mission to Suburbia

Steve McCoy has started Mission to Suburbia and makes a request: “My resource page for the mission to suburban America: blogs, books, websites, stats, etc.  This stuff will be mostly suburb-specific, though I will make exceptions.  Let me know if you know of resources that should be listed here. “ He’s also already started listing [...]

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Missional Renaissance Leadership Community

Reggie McNeal, Leadership Network‘s Missional Leadership Specialist, announces the formation of a new Missional Renaissance Leadership Community. Ten churches across the country will partner together over the course of the next two years to compare notes and strategize how to best become incarnational in their respective communities. I had the privilege of participating in these [...]

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The Thing Before the Next Big Thing?

I posted this morning over on the Leadership Network Digital Blog about the new Kindle device.

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The Reading Level of this Blog

I read about this little app over at Jesus Creed and decided to check out faithmaps’ reading level. I can only assume it’s my penchant for multisyllabic words and inability to eschew obfuscation. Actually, writing simply is something on which I have to work. When I write what I think, it ain’t pretty! In my [...]

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Coming to Jesus thru Social Justice

“I want to share my testimony with you because it gives us a template for how people in my generation can become converted to faith in Jesus in a passionate way. My story is a case study in what is wrong with Progressive politics and religious life today. I’m the daughter of two progressive Baptist [...]

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