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The Imperative and Indicative Bryan Chapell [A09]

June 17, 2009

Okay, so it’s been a week and a half since I returned from Advance09 and much of it has still been on my mind. I do still want to give some sort of rundown of just about of the talks from the three days; or at least share a highlight or a quote from it [...]

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Driscoll: What is the Church? [A09]

June 9, 2009

First up at Advance09 was Mark Driscoll who is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA. From my understanding Seattle is a hard city for the Gospel, people largely view the Church as irrelevant, bigoted and backwards (unfortunately, the caricature is not inaccurate enough). The title/question is a significant one. It’s important [...]

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Fermenting on Advance09

June 9, 2009

I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week in the Durham, NC area at the Advance09 conference. It was a conference about the resurgance of the local church. I’m not talking about a political power and I’m not talking about something that involves violent war metaphors, protests and bait-and-switch events. In the past decades [...]

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Improvements Needed

March 19, 2009

There is a major website that my employer has as an outreach to college students around the country that also powers subsidary sites that can be customized for individual campus use. In past years it has been very effective at opening the door for students to interact with the Gospel in a safe environment and [...]

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What is the Gospel? #2

March 2, 2009

I know, I haven’t answered the question on the other one. Again, not ignoring, but I wanted to share this too. EDIT (3/4/09): Here’s a transcript of it… There is one God and He is the maker of heaven and earth. He made us in His image and likeness. Male and female, with dignity, value, [...]

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