After a week of camp with mostly non-Christian students… I’m more aware than usual of the fact that modern evangelical speech is for “insiders”. My neighbor Andy always asks great questions… he’s a true learner. After his first week of camp a few years ago, he says to me: What does it mean to [...]
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The Language of Christianity
2 Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 8th 2011
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R.I.P. John Stott: Missional Before Missional Was Cool
A great man passed on July 27, 2011. My first exposure was his Acts commentary, The Message of Acts: The Spirit, the Church, and the World. From Christianity Today’s obituary: From his conversion at Rugby secondary school in 1938 to his death in 2011 at 90 years old, Stott exemplified how extraordinary plain, ordinary Christianity [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jul 28th 2011
Skye Jethani’s post, Tim Keller on Justification and Justice, caught my eye because I still haven’t heard anything by Tim Keller that didn’t take me to a deeper place in some area of my life. From Jethani’s report, I see that Keller’s talk at the Q Gathering in Chicago centered on one of Keller’s classic [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 30th 2010
This brother puts out some AMAZING videos… like this one on Resurrection. Resurrection: Rob Bell from The Work of Rob Bell on Vimeo. At the heart of the historical Jesus story is the provocative, compelling, subversive, beautiful insistence that nothing can ever be the same again, not after resurrection. H/T Heart of Campus Ministry
1 Comment Scott Pagel on Apr 14th 2010
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Real Live Preacher Bible study is on
Last week I mentioned Real Live Preacher’s online bible study. Gordon just posted an update. It’s on. THIS EVENT IS Tuesday, April 13th at 6pm in California, 7pm in Colorado, 8pm in Texas, and 9pm on the East Coast. Anyone else around the world will have to figure out the time for yourself. Go read [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
A Bible study for mystics, cynics, pilgrims, and unbelievers. Live via streaming video at RLP. Tuesday, April 13th at 8 pm CST. Something new: Live Bible Study Online at RLP | Real Live Preacher If you are interested in Bible Study… but haven’t found a method/pastor/teacher that seems to mesh with your own personality, doubts, [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 7th 2010
The title is a statement… not a question. I’m telling you. d: is not the CD/DVD drive on your computer (or in my case my 2nd 1TB HDD! /grin) d: is for Delirious? Delirious is one of my favorite bands of all time. They happen to be Christians and so they fit my definition of [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 2nd 2010
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grace
Jonathan Acuff writes some really funny (and painfully true) things on his blog Stuff Christians Like. On Wednesday… he mostly left out the funny and the truth never felt better as he wrote about Christianity’s most distinctive aspect. The comma – posted at Stuff Christians Like
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 1st 2010
