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Home is an interesting concept.
I have a “home” in western Kentucky, but I feel like a stranger there. I enjoyed visiting this week, but I really am like a man from another time and place.
I have a “home” in eastern Kentucky, but it’s very fragile. A few bumps in the road and difficulties, and I’m […]

Sabbatical Week 2, Catholics make nice places to pray, Friendship and the God journey, a great book recommendation.
You all need to buy “The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church” and more Reformation theology gifts from New Reformation Press.

 

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Matthew 6:31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God* above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you […]

(Thanks to all of you who are already supporting Jesus Shaped Spirituality, or JSS.)
We probably need a new category around here: “Words As I Ride Into The Sunset.”
Catholic blogger extraordinaire Amy Welborn has been studying me for a couple of years now, and she knows what’s red meat to my post evangelical soul.
So this morning, […]

UPDATE: The new post at JSS is “God is Jesus.”
I have started blogging at Jesus Shaped Spirituality or JesusShaped.wordpress.com. The actual domain JesusShaped.com won’t be up for a while, so this is my temporary home.
If you are an IM reader, PLEASE help me make this transition.
Tell others. Update your RSS feed. Stop by both sites […]

Movie talk, C.S. Lewis off limits, To those who feel it’s not working.
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Somewhere between Mark Driscoll, David Fitch, Bill Kinnon and Jared Wilson there’s a discussion about the validity of missional/emerging church claims to know what they are doing/talking about….which I’m not part of, but one of them asks for my thoughts. Big mistake (OK….it was Kinnon.)
First, my own missional cred.
My community has professing converts. About […]

Here’s a useful question for me right now. (Maybe it will be useful to you, or maybe not.)
Can you find places in scripture where someone had to drastically revise their idea of God in order to know and follow the true God? If so, why and how?
I’m not asking for places where people just […]

Because you have a real life, maybe you can only read one book about Jesus scholarship this year. What’s it going to be?
I love N.T. Wright’s Jesus and The Victory of God, but unless you are used to scholarly exegesis and discussion, you need something aimed more at the non-academic, but not short-changing you on […]

I’m completing my first week of sabbatical here in lovely Louisville, Kentucky. I want to thank all of you who made suggestions of things to do. I’ve visited many places that you recommended.
I’ve stayed at the Legacy Center on the Campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Accommodations are outstanding. Great bookstore, coffee shop, cafeteria, […]

I’ve always liked this essay, and I don’t want to lose track of it.

The Humility Zone is rarer and rarer among Christians these days. Defending the authority of scripture has come to mean asserting the impossibility of our own fallibility. Scripture is true, has authority and, of course, my interpretation of scripture just happens to […]

UPDATE: Here’s a suggestion by Ray Ortland that fits with this post.
If the truth about Christianity turned out to be very different from what we’d been taught as young Christians by people we look up to as mentors and authorities, would we stand up and tell the truth? Would we make the turn and go […]

In fifteen minutes, I’ll be on the road to sabbatical week 1 on the campus of Southern seminary.
Look for occasional reports here. Look for some of the fruit of my time away at the temporary home of Jesus Shaped Spirituality.
Thanks for all the Louisville advice. I’m loaded for bea…..books and coffee.
God bless all of you […]

UPDATE: Here’s an example of what Young is writing at his own blog these days.
I cannot tell you how important it is for you to go listen to this interview. If you’ve read The Shack and wondered how the story expresses the faith journey of the author, this is the interview you are waiting for.
William […]

What’s happening to the IM website? Dragged down front and made to dance.
Jake Colsen.com
So You Don’t Want To Go To Church?
The God Journey. An absolute must for IM readers. Go to “Recent Episodes” and listen to “Who Is This God?”
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