The semiotic reading of “Tribe Culture” keys in on the word “tribe,” Garry Ridge’s metaphor for his philosophy on fostering a productive work environment. When he talked about the concept of “tribes” ticking all the boxes he saw as necessary, I wondered if the same could be said for “church”
“God’s Homecoming” by N.T. Wright
"We have no souls and we're not going to heaven!"
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“Spirit and Sacrament” by Andrew Wilson
The earthy, embodied, truly corporate, Holy Spirit-interactive worship Wilson describes is not even comparable with television worship.
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“Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?” by Guy Consolmagno and Paul Mueller (Part 2)
The early church abstained from quite a bit of their culture's activities, in fact insisted upon it to all would-be Christians, but they went in deep to minister to those caught up in the wreckage of their culture's ways.
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“Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?” by Guy Consolmagno and Paul Mueller (Part 1)
“... when we find ourselves backed into a corner, it’s usually because we’re coming at things from our own point of view, rather than God’s”
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“Light on Darkness” by Cosima Clara Gillhammer
“Ritual and iconography create context for telling a new story—a departure from the old, but the bridge from old to new is provided in the reshaping of the ritual or icon."
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“The Greatest Story Never Told,” by Leonard Sweet
All of us who have the Spirit of Christ share in the passion the Lord has for earth, for people, for each other. We share in spiritual knowledge and understanding, we share in, as Sweet puts it, the upward works of piety that include the sacraments, prayer, and scripture, and we share in the outward works of piety, of grace, mercy, and charity.
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“The God of Story,” by Daniel Schwabauer (Part 2)
If God is for real, and God's word still speaks, then we can be confident God's power will also continue to be at work. It is the Holy Spirit Who does the convicting, the enlivening, the softening, the quickening, the restoring, and the raising up. None of that is mine.
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“The God of Story,” by Daniel Schwabauer (Part 1)
What is the real reason for a good story? To be a vault that safeguards truth in such a way each new hearer discovers the truth for themselves (pp 29, 50, 59).
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“Jesus Imagination,” by Leonard Sweet (Part 2)
At a certain point in the second half, it felt as though I were reading an autobiography in the form of a devotional diary. It felt like sitting with Len Sweet early in the morning (or maybe late at night), when time slows down and we are in that mystical place between heaven and earth where inspiration and revelation fill us to overflowing.
