Tonight we had one of our "Coffee House" events at our church--a night of music (sung and played), art (painted by our members and displayed at our gathering), and spoken word (poetry, short readings--even a rap from our interns back in the summer). We are doing this once a month on Wednesday nights, and it has been well received.…

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It is Christ, not morality, that saves us and attracts the world

Immorality is all around us. It is hard not to lash out say, on Facebook, to all of the immorality that we see. It is blatant. In…

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To all of my Christian friends--I know that it is hard not to lash out on Facebook to all of the immorality that we see. It is blatant. In our face. And it is Christians who are mocked, made fun of, declared intolerant. I saw a high school friend just post that he had a hard choice to make about the Boy Scouts due to their stance on homosexuality. And that is just a…

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Facebook--and technology in general--can be used for good or evil. Usually technology just intensifies or makes whatever we choose to do easier or faster to do. The news article tells how a mom choked a 14-year-old who was…

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My Doctor of Ministry work is in missional outreach. And a significant part of this paper is on the use of social networking to reach people for Christ, both the old fashioned, "real world" networking and online social networking. I want to address the latter in this post, though both are intertwined. 

 

There are several elements to effectively using Facebook…

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Unless you have been in a cave, you have heard that New York US Rep. Anthony Weiner, after a week of denial, confessed in a press conference that he had sent naked pictures of himself and engaged in online sex talk with about six women. 

 

The details of this story--and the pictures--have started to come out, and they are, well, unspeakable. Why…

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Yesterday, my wife and I and our two girls, Gina (10) and Emily (6), went to eat at Shogun's, a Japanese steak house in McKinney. Our kids love it there, as the chefs make the food right at your table and do all kinds of interesting little tricks, like burning an onion and making it a chu chu train. 

As the chef was making our food, we talked with him about his…

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In the recent book, The Facebook Effect, author…

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If you understand missional theology, you know that the Spirit of God has already been sent out into the world ahead of us. Therefore, God is at work in our culture in big and profound ways. Continue

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As I shared with you last week, Bobby Ross has written a column on social networking in his column in the Christian Chronicle. The article is now posted online (click here). Check it out!



Bobby quotes me and references the Missional Outreach Network. Of course, this site is not about me, but about all of you and how God is moving amongst us to help us work… Continue