by Jayson on January 28, 2010
I think most Christians who are aware of who Christopher Hitchens is assumes that he doesn’t really understand the message of the Christian faith, that he really just needs to understand what it’s really all about and then he’d surely come along.
And then you read about his conversation with a Unitarian minister:
Maryiln Sewell:
The religion you [...]
by Jayson on October 15, 2008
As I processed a little today with my in-laws’ pastor he asked a question that struck at the heart of what I’ve been wrestling with. It’s a question that doesn’t seem to be all that crazy or out of the realm of possibility and even seems that it would be a next logical step in [...]
by Jayson on August 12, 2008
Tonight I read “A New Departure” which is a keynote speech that Charles Spurgeon gave at an annual meeting of the pastors’ college that he founded. He must have just destroyed some of these guys as he did me tonight.
A respectable ministry, devoid of spiritual life, is little better than respectable damnation, from which may [...]
by Jayson on January 22, 2008
The organization that I minister with is, relatively speaking, huge… we’re active in 191 countries (I’m still amazed that there are that many countries at all) and have 25,000 staff members. I am always impressed at how honest our leadership is with our shortcomings. Just this month the Vice-President of the Americas wrote up a [...]
by Jayson on January 19, 2008
This weekend is another conference for me. I’m running PowerPoint and video yet again and I’m having a pretty good time doing it too. The conference is a regional conference for Impact – an “ethnic student ministry” associated with the organization that I work with. Impact primarily focuses on reaching out to and building up [...]