Ideas have consequences. TIME Magazine published their list of 10 Ideas that are Changing the World Right Now. Inspired by Time, I’ve created a list of my own. See if you agree.

In my last post (Frameworks for Mission: Direction or Dogma) we looked at the experience of Cornelius as described by Luke in Acts chapter 10. I asked the question, Are we saved by cognitive acceptance of certain doctrines or by the direction of our lives?  

How are women and men “saved”? Are we saved by cognitive acceptance of certain dogmas? Are we saved by the direction of our lives? Or both or neither.

The strangeness of my life hit me in a weird way today. I was taking a morning run. I’m trying to get back in shape and lose weight. I just need to do this.

At the same time, as I pick up the pace of my walk to increase my heart rate, my thoughts [...]

A few years ago I suggested that postmodernism was on it’s last leg and projected that by 2020 it would be “history,” as they say.

In a few weeks I’ll be in Nashville at an IMN event called HUMAN AGAIN — Take Back the Future. Here are some directions for the conversations we’ll be having there. Thanks in advance for helping me get the word out.

Taking a Walk on the Human Side

Monday, March 10
Orlando, Fl
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“If you learn this you will know something about Jesus that many Christians do not know,” I told them.

This week:

The Turning to the Scriptures - Part 2

The four turnings are these:

A turning to Jesus Christ as Lord
A turning to some form of Christ following community
A turning to the Scriptures - Part 1
A turning back to the world on mission

We been talking about the 4 Turnings of the human heart that [...]

The 4 Turnings

In 1991 or so, George Hunter mentioned, during a presentation in East Los Angeles, the 4 turnings “repentances” of the human heart that help create the kinds of people the Kingdom needs.

This week:

The Turning to the Scriptures
       

Last March, I commented on several chapters from a book titled the Culture Code. [Interestingly enough, last May I met the author's (Clotaire Rapaille) former Polo coach when he approached me because he had read my post]. Today, in an article –that collaborates Rapaille’s premise too well to ignore– titled “New Leaders Say Pensive [...]