Think Like Jesus

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Scripture as Source

  • A Question About Giving Money to Churches

    Recently a friend who was contemplating giving money to Process Church wanted to know about giving in general. She asked questions about what percentage of money to give… do I figure the percentage from my gross pay or from my net… does it all have to go to my own church? Here was my response to Read more

  • Be the Church

    If someone asked you what you were doing this weekend… specifically Sunday morning… what did you say? If you’re like many people of faith you may have answered, “I’m going to church.” I would like to challenge you to consider re-thinking that expression. I think the Scripture offers us a more complete definition of what Read more

  • Why I Left the Fundamentalism of My Youth

    This is not a rant. I’m not angry about anything. This is my story. The fact is… I have waited more than 10 years to write it. I do so now because of the repeated inquiries of others. I write at the risk of being misunderstood. I write with the hope that I may help Read more

  • Renewed Every Day

    There is a beautiful text that came to my mind today as I returned to the gym in hopes of redeeming some of my ill-spent youth. I first thought of these verses as a joke about my aching muscles and general fatigue resulting from months of neglect. But the more I read them the deeper Read more

  • Modern Day Prophets

    What is a prophet? Webster defines a prophet as one… 1: one who utters divinely inspired revelations: as a. often capitalized : the writer of one of the prophetic books of the Bible b. capitalized : one regarded by a group of followers as the final authoritative revealer of God’s will. A discussion of this Read more

  • Scripture As Source – Core Value #7

    We all have philosophical & practical places to which we return; in part to assure ourselves that in fact we are still on course. And even if the declared origin is my own thinking, I return to my thoughts to check myself. It is equally true that most of us have a detectable set of Read more

  • Not So Fluent In the Emergent Conversation

    Until recently I have been confused, even enamored, by the phenomenon formally known and often referred to as the Emergent Church. Seems everyone is… actually… and why not? I mean the student in me always tries to listen and learn – it’s what students do. First, let me be clear that there is much within Read more