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Blog Eyes on Israel
- By Shane Raynor
- Posted on November 20th, 2012
Last week, Kim Kardashian found out just how fired up people can get when someone dares to bring up the subject of Israel. On Friday, she tweeted to her 16+ million followers…
Blog Faith of the Walking Dead
- By Clay Morgan
- Posted on October 19th, 2012
How would you view God if the world as you knew it ended? Have you been there? AMC's popular show The Walking Dead introduces a group of characters wrestling with the Almighty in…
Blog There Don’t Have to be More Auroras
- By Robert A. Ratcliff
- Posted on July 26th, 2012
The recent horrific shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater so fills us with anger and revulsion that our attempts to describe, much less understand, the event seem destined …
Blog Olympics Sermon Ideas and More
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on July 17th, 2012
As the number of television stations, websites, and every other diversion increases, it gets harder and harder to find cultural references that most people in your congregation…
Blog Context, Context, Context
- By Matthew L. Kelley
- Posted on July 2nd, 2012
I recently finished up a sermon series called "Living the Story," exploring each of the major "episodes" in the biblical narrative. (Listen to the series podcasts here.) We ended…
Blog Anti-Gay Viral Videos and the Limits of Religious Free Speech
- By Christian Piatt
- Posted on June 5th, 2012
Words have gravity, and in certain contexts, the words we choose and employ have more weight than in others. I’m definitely sensitive to that when I see the traffic numbers…