L.T. Greer

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936 posts, 2007–2026

20261 post

  1. Everyone’s hot takes on everything

201910 posts

  1. The open web is where we can make sites that don’t abuse data the way Facebook does
  2. The “arbitrary activity that was cooked up by 20-somethings in some incubator rec room in northern California” that passes as “social”
  3. “America’s urban rebirth is missing a key element: births”
  4. Psychology tells us, “Your problem is a lack of self-esteem.” And biology tells us, “You’re just evolved amoebae”
  5. “The soul that does not eat pepper is a dead soul”
  6. The seven A’s of saying “I’m sorry”
  7. “The problem with the dragon is not its stockpile stewardship, but its appetite”
  8. “They are systematically killing the industry”
  9. “The two stated pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds”
  10. “Why Americans hate the media”

201833 posts

  1. “Lagos: Hope and Warning”
  2. “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper”
  3. “You don’t go to Instagram because you’re looking for something, rather, you want to see what it has found for you”
  4. “When do you write your autobiography, and how do you finish it?”
  5. “The tenuous self, sensitive only to the needs of This Instant, always believes that the present is infinitely consequential.”
  6. “I realized that if I couldn’t get something done…”
  7. “I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them that doctrine is not enough”
  8. “What are Christians to make of Jordan Peterson?”
  9. “These 95 apartments promised affordable rent in San Francisco. Then 6,580 people applied.”
  10. “Privilege is to victimhood as cowardice is to honor”
  11. Cape Town and Day Zero
  12. Sullivan High soccer: 14 players, 13 nationalities
  13. “I promise you we will find a pathway from William Wordsworth to the wife of Kanye West — surely the very definition of a road to nowhere”
  14. Sunset
  15. Contextualization is “using the gospel to answer the questions that people actually have”
  16. Choosing to be tech-wise with your kids
  17. “How the Silicon Valley dream of building a networked utopia turned into a globalized strip-mall casino overrun by pop-up ads and cyberbullies and Vladimir Putin”
  18. A rule of life
  19. “Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side”
  20. Grandma
  21. “You can listen to your heart, or you can speak to your heart.”
  22. “A letter to my brothers”
  23. “The hope that moms don’t need”
  24. “To live in a place… and to see from there as far as you can”
  25. “Only those who have never known him can remain indifferent to him”
  26. God’s wrath “has nothing to do with bad temper or spite or animosity or revenge. The wrath of God is his perfect, righteous, settled, implacable antagonism to evil.”
  27. Detoxifying the Internet
  28. “America, having pioneered the modern way of life, is now in the midst of trying to escape it.”
  29. Whose image is this?
  30. Weakened spirit of sacrifice
  31. “Advice is useless in bondage”
  32. “What the heart most loves and wants the mind finds reasonable, the emotions find valuable, and the will finds doable”
  33. Politics, power, and evangelical orphans

201764 posts

  1. The Lindsay Bible Reading Plan
  2. “We must not be snobs or snobs about snobs.”
  3. The best retelling of the Jesus story isn’t Narnia or Harry Potter
  4. Practicing Advent with family and friends
  5. How the disappearing Christian cultural backdrop “could be good news for Christian institutions”
  6. Lament Poems in the Bible
  7. “We are, all of us, far worse than merely ‘unsafe.’”
  8. Pray for “for all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, Godly and dignified in every way.”
  9. “In the absence of Facebook and protest signs, the freshmen were taking back their class”
  10. “This style of Christian worship may be easy to replicate, but one thing can’t be copied”
  11. This “reductionism prevents us from learning the human stories behind the ideas”
  12. “The urban/rural divide is the single most overlooked fracture in American religion”
  13. Amazon patents huge drone beehives for cities
  14. Remember when your parents taught you ______? Email has to be taught too.
  15. Welcome to Refugee High
  16. “You can grow a church in one of the most post-Christian cities in the United States”
  17. Pentecost: “The story in Acts is also our story”
  18. On “brokenness” and other euphemisms for sin
  19. “Lined up correctly, a tiny domino results the toppling of a massive domino further down the line”
  20. “Only thus shall we broaden out of the vicious circle of our own admiration into the greater commendation of God”
  21. The British Library Board discovers Yoda throughout medieval manuscripts
  22. “Technology is good for lots of things. But what it is not good for — and perhaps what it is actively bad for — is the formation of persons”
  23. What might Jane Jacobs observe about trust among neighbors in an age of digital distraction?
  24. Church planting’s purpose, potential, and power
  25. “The truth is that your kids will sin and eventually they will sin sexually“
  26. Marriage: “This is about that”
  27. Political difference and cultural sameness: both sides are “drinking from the same cup filled with the poisonous nectar of reality TV and its baseless values”
  28. The eleven “nations” that make up North America
  29. “Death did not claim him as its victim; instead he seized it as its Victor.”
  30. “A totally new mode of being has arisen in the universe”
  31. “On this mountain He will swallow up death forever.”
  32. Christian faith is “a trust in the merits of his life, death, and resurrection”
  33. “The cross undermines our self-righteousness”
  34. He was tempted as Man, but he conquered as God. He hungered, but he fed thousands. He thirsted, but gave drink.
  35. “We do, of course, have One who has gone before”
  36. “We live in an age when people want to project great meaning on politics. This won’t work.”
  37. “2016 election was almost certainly the most polarized election along urban/rural lines in American presidential history”
  38. “What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience”
  39. “In the last 20 years, Christianity has exploded by 300 percent in the world’s most influential city.”
  40. Christian Thinkers Reflect on “The Benedict Option”
  41. The Closing of the Modern Mind: Tim Keller & Jonathan Haidt at NYU
  42. “That Time that the Memphis Tigers beat the World Champion Green Bay Packers”
  43. Measuring the “character” of neighborhoods in 50 U.S. cities
  44. “Sorry, Canada—your entire economy would fit inside Tokyo”
  45. “The blessing of reproof”
  46. “Your vision may not be what you think it is”
  47. The politicalization of everything
  48. Guest post: “Practicing Sabbath”
  49. The passion that “is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”
  50. Magic, science, technology, and religion
  51. The last five years without the Internet
  52. “The war creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it”
  53. A prayer for 2017
  54. “Jesus connects justice and mercy to intimacy with God”
  55. “Solving Chicago’s murders could prevent more”
  56. “The call of Christians is to be so deeply prayerful that we respond with creativity rather than just reaction”
  57. “No matter where you’re from, what neighborhood you call home, and no matter what your dreams are in life… There’s no dream you can’t achieve”
  58. “There are no gradations in the image of God”
  59. The hyper-locality of gun violence in America
  60. “The year in housing: the middle class can’t afford to live in cities anymore”
  61. “The more we simply blame ‘those people,’ the less likely we are to see in others a shared humanity”
  62. “When a friend told me about this place, I had to come see for myself”
  63. “You can’t doubt belief A except on the basis of some belief B you’re believing instead at the moment”
  64. 10 good news stories from 2016

2016153 posts

  1. “From Greatness to Inclusivity”
  2. The Christological pro-life argument
  3. “Is Children of Men 2016’s Most Relevant Film?”
  4. “Outrage is a finite resource; to attempt to generate it over and over again ensures that it will be harder for it to mean anything”
  5. “There’s an infinite selection of activities in the world that might bring value,” so how do we choose?
  6. Do I have to believe in things like the virgin birth and the resurrection to be a Christian?
  7. Questions for a marriage check-up
  8. Academia and the rise of “institutional disconfirmation”
  9. The corrupt “keep sprouting, like eyes on a potato in your pantry, or a bloodthirsty many-headed hydra if you’re into mythology”
  10. Visualized in city maps: “for the first time, upper- and lower-class households together comprise over 50 percent of the population”
  11. “It’s as if every last image is designed to call to mind the book, ‘Advertisements for Myself’”
  12. “The World’s 15 Most Complex Subway Maps”
  13. “lack of empathy in technology doesn’t exist because people who write algorithms are heartless but because they lack the reality outside the tech bubble”
  14. The goal of the sermon should be to “storm the citadel of the will and capture it for Jesus Christ”
  15. “The End of Identity Liberalism”
  16. The “shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues, whose long shadow spread across the world, is dead”
  17. The Bubble: where 1 bedroom apartments start at 1.9M
  18. If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
  19. Elections and why cities vote the way they do
  20. People are moving out of the most expensive cities more than they’re moving in
  21. “Joy without obedience is frivolity; obedience without joy is moralism.”
  22. Sometimes it takes a cultural outsider to see something the insiders are missing:
  23. Pray for “for all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, Godly and dignified in every way.”
  24. Prayer for God’s governance
  25. Where are we? “A controversy-ridden former first lady is running for president against a wealthy former ally and megalomaniac”
  26. “I feel like the whole season is a home game”
  27. “Ten years after the crash, it’s still a monument to the limits of suburban sprawl”
  28. Most people cheat (and other insights about humans)
  29. “At what point are we choosing to spend more time with our smartphones than with our spouses?”
  30. “How the Brown Rat Conquered New York City (and Every Other One, Too)”
  31. “Baby Jazlene, buried through the kindness of strangers”
  32. “The world’s first commercial drone delivery service has launched”
  33. The Church is “the institution that sees the human being as a creature, not a machine”
  34. “The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works”
  35. Mapping the invisible: the great Chicago map currently in development
  36. How Barack, Donald, Bernie, and Paul misuse the term “inner city”
  37. The seven types of global city
  38. The fundamental purpose of the church
  39. “You just feel … kinda satisfied with your products. And then you die.”
  40. The Constitution, the Founders, the Roman Republic, and the President as dictator
  41. The debates: “We will learn little to nothing that could not be discovered by any Google user”
  42. The thousands of churches that serve Syrian refugees
  43. “24 people were displaced from their homes every minute of every day during 2015”
  44. Winning elections increasingly means constructive work on immigration reform
  45. “Why US cities are fighting to attract immigrants”
  46. “If atheists win the day, political liberalism will become illiberal and nihilistic”
  47. “To learn how the rest of the world lives is to cure yourself of spoiling”
  48. “The Geography of the World’s Billionaires”
  49. How a pastor and a seamstress gave us Labor Day
  50. “How porn is changing a generation of girls”
  51. How the first superhighway in Chicago changed the city
  52. “The experience of those who are losing their religion shouldn’t obscure the experience of those who are finding it”
  53. Pew: How America finds a new church
  54. Home prices mapped by transit stop
  55. “The mechanics, the politics, and the psychic challenges of the September 12 era”
  56. Athlete’s record-breaking Olympic victory reveals debate about race in South Africa
  57. Falling in love with your city
  58. Romance: “Regime of Choice” vs. “Regime of Fate”
  59. Of dogs and refugees
  60. The paradigm shift from parenting to “peer-enting”
  61. “In tense elections, religious leaders can make things better—or worse”
  62. “Starting this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones”
  63. “Only through worship are we restored to vigor from the exhaustion and burnout of seeking our own glory”
  64. “One in eight US adults says they smoke marijuana”
  65. “If there’s a mass religion of global culture it’s the belief that by believing in yourself you can get everything you’ve ever dreamed of”
  66. Donuts and magnets: models for understanding urban change
  67. “America’s birth rate is now a national emergency”
  68. Speaking of gerrymandering…
  69. How New York’s zoning laws help promote (or restrict) dense, vibrant neighborhoods
  70. How the porn-saturated Internet affects both “liberal” and “conservative” parents
  71. “Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you…”
  72. “No need to distort Trump’s and Clinton’s words. The truth is bad enough.”
  73. Is what we do as church what people in the Bible did?
  74. “Living in an anxious age”
  75. Deep work vs. shallow work
  76. Hope in an age of mass incarceration
  77. Why far right and far left politics begin to look like each other
  78. Which country has the most immigrants?
  79. “The least unpopular”
  80. Interactive Map of World Population
  81. 6000 years of city building
  82. The Washington Post publishes excerpts from Tony Evans’ message on race and gospel
  83. “At their best, cities…”
  84. Interview with Elon Musk about Gigafactory
  85. Students’ lost humanity
  86. Lament
  87. Radical change across Africa
  88. When the Lovable Losers are winning
  89. London as City-State
  90. Comparing neighborhood change in Chicago and L.A.
  91. Sunset Cape Town Sea
  92. Study Notes: Mark 7
  93. Identity and brexit
  94. The exhaustive scope of the Sermon on the Mount
  95. Three good things about difficult Bible passages
  96. Speaking in a digital age
  97. “What Christians just don’t get about LGBT folks”
  98. “You are not your sexuality”
  99. Cities’ outsized proportion of global economy in 2025 and 2050
  100. Fastest growing cities
  101. Make your student small group awesome
  102. Music Creation
  103. Prayer for church, race, and class
  104. This Year’s Summer Jam
  105. Can We Still Weep Together?
  106. “Lord, put into authority honest, wise, and generous leaders…”
  107. Global cities look more like each other than their regions
  108. “He presented himself alive and spoke about the kingdom of God… and as they were looking on, he was lifted up.”
  109. “The universe is an endless ocean of God’s joy and glory. We are caught temporarily in a little drop of sadness here on Earth.”
  110. “In God, whose word I praise — in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”
  111. ”Encryption is math. Math works the same for Mother Teresa and for Bin Laden”
  112. ”All cities belong to some state, but… many cities matter as much to the world as to their home country”
  113. ”the places that look most like America are large metros; that look least like America have fewer than 100k people”
  114. ”The very kind of prayer that forces me to surrender is also the prayer that needles me to want.”
  115. “Life’s impossibilities, and the limits they place upon us, are often where we grow most quickly in our desire for God”
  116. ”It would be abhorrent to allow the sale of fetal tissue.”
  117. ”Big-time conservative media isn’t made in those places — Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin — even if it’s marketed to them.”
  118. ”The company secretly tampered with 700,000 newsfeeds and concluded that it can make you feel whatever it wants you to”
  119. ”Turn Parking Into A Park?”
  120. ”The reason I am so frustrated is because of my inadequate doctrine.”
  121. ”Oh Dad! Look, I see the star!”
  122. ”In a megacity world, countries can be suburbs of cities”
  123. Best quote from papers I’m grading
  124. Panama Papers
  125. “But what’s truly terrifying is girls like them aren’t the minority. I am.”
  126. ”a process that would generate a majority for a candidate automatically…”
  127. Hyperloop envisioned in 1897
  128. “If pundits speak about immigrants as threats, view poor minorities as economic drains, mock Christians as bigots…”
  129. The Dangerous All Writs Act Precedent in the Apple Encryption Case
  130. The Midwest’s urban/rural divide and the myth of America’s heartland
  131. State and Congress
  132. “‘Do What You Love’ And Other Lies About Success and Happiness”
  133. ”women’s bodies and children’s futures have been turned into rhetorical proving grounds for politicians.”
  134. “The responsibility of a university… is to promote ‘fearless freedom of debate.’”
  135. “No organisation should ever announce in public that it is ‘ethical.’”
  136. ”When citizens of a democracy deify the voice of the people… negative consequences abound”
  137. Foreign investment per state in Nigeria.
  138. “Suited up, we stood before the airlock, and it opened.”
  139. ”Your religion is the story you tell yourself about yourself to others.”
  140. ”How could the good guys…seek help from someone whose greed, brutality, and lust for power were legendary?”
  141. How “Making a Murderer” Went Wrong…
  142. ”I have experienced much greater academic freedom at Wheaton than I ever did at the secular university that I left.”
  143. ”2016 is the election when Silicon Valley upstages the old power structure and seizes control of the political game.”
  144. ”Just as sin is man substituting himself for God, so salvation is God substituting himself for man.”
  145. ”Lord, make my words honest and true, economical and few, wise and well chosen, calm and kind.”
  146. More “authentic”. More “visceral”. More “real.”
  147. ”Mercy ministry always comes down to this - you can help, but only Jesus can heal.”
  148. How Studio Gang is working to transform the police station into the polis station
  149. ”How to Cut Children’s Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First”
  150. ”Bless the hearts of CEOs everywhere, less management is sometimes the best management.”
  151. ”Imagine if you treated your actual, physical mailbox like you treat your email. Here’s how it would go…”
  152. “we’re heading toward an era where drastic responses to will become socially acceptable”
  153. Why can’t we read anymore? Or listen to our kids? Or just be present?

2015112 posts

  1. “In math, it’s wonderful that there are basic problems that still exist that nobody knows the answer to”
  2. How a refugee comes to the US
  3. More than a role model
  4. ”a change from self to unself”
  5. Sunset Lekki-Ikoyi
  6. ”Five cups of coffee a day to keep the doctor away, according to a new government health report”
  7. Quitting Facebook
  8. Harvard data on firearms and…
  9. ”Jesus never predicted his death without adding that he would rise”
  10. ”Such a man is altogether beyond our reach. He succeeded where we always fail. He had complete self-mastery…”
  11. ”A staggering moment for Chicago”
  12. ”Since 2009… 140,000 more Mexican migrants left the United States than arrived”
  13. Presidential primary stare-down debate
  14. Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children
  15. ”Humans fight over bits of compressed carbon, tracts of dirt, addictive mind-altering substances, and soccer matches”
  16. ”Send out your light and your truth and let them lead me”
  17. ”Good teachers make it possible for people to change their positions without shame”
  18. “The systematic failures in TSA security checks”
  19. 498 Years Ago Today: Luther and His 95 Theses
  20. Economics and happiness
  21. Cubs sweep series
  22. ”We’re going to spend 5 days defining 2 words: ‘urban’ and ‘culture’”
  23. Fly the W
  24. “You are not my life”
  25. Every goat in the U.S.
  26. What God requires
  27. ”Jesus was single. He never married or had sex. And he was completely fulfilled and had the most effective life in history”
  28. The Missing Demographic in Urban Churches
  29. ”He threw it off a man’s head into his own net! He threw it off a man’s head into his own net!”
  30. ”the American [military] policy of treating child sexual abuse as a ‘cultural issue’”
  31. A tale of 3 cities- Violent crime in LA, NYC, and Chicago
  32. Why shattering a moralistic understanding of Christianity is a good thing
  33. ”No longer do we think we have the power merely to discover moral reality and truth — we think we have the power to actually create it. What we have now is less a reversal of modernity and than an intensification of its deepest patterns”
  34. ”Water runs downhill and the highest hills are the great cities. If we can stir them…”
  35. “Everything changes in light of the Victim who is the Judge”
  36. Boston College philosophy prof identifies only four possibilities re Abortion and culpability
  37. ”The trend is clear- The number of homicides in major U.S. cities has declined spectacularly”
  38. “When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?”
  39. ”When You Protect Your Child from the Porn Industry, You Also Protect Mine”
  40. Pro-Choice Questions, Pro-Life Answers
  41. “How Porn Destroyed Sex”
  42. “beekeepers say that honeybees generally do better in Chicago than in rural areas”
  43. ”the Trojan horses of pleasure and comfort, ‘wisdom’ and ‘security,’ flattery and shame”
  44. Marquis DeSade “was truly a prophet born out of time”
  45. ”The unfolding of your words gives light”
  46. Gallup poll 1950 v 2005
  47. On crowdfunding for civic projects
  48. Culture, sex, and god
  49. “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the matters of life”
  50. “So commenced the unlikely friendship and intellectual partnership of the atheist and the apologist”
  51. “…marriage means sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would”
  52. “The Lord knows how to keep his pastors humble so you can worry about keeping your pastor going”
  53. Four things Chicago is getting right
  54. Lion’s Head
  55. “If yes, specify no”
  56. El Chapo escape
  57. “In the prehistoric era, 1952, the word ‘pregnant’ was still banned and Lucille Ball had to say she was ‘expecting’”
  58. “The challenge is finding non-judgmental clinicians to whom vampires can disclose their alternative lifestyles”
  59. “Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.”
  60. “The 1st question is not, ‘What did Jesus do and how do I do it?’ but ‘What does Jesus offer and how do I receive it?’”
  61. “The powerful words of forgiveness delivered to Dylann Roof by victims’ relatives”
  62. 16th century morning prayer
  63. “Dads’”goofy teasing and hyper play actually help young children develop”
  64. The Résumé Beyond Your Reach
  65. “Where You Live Changes What You See When You Read the Bible”
  66. “A lot of people just don’t have the words. They don’t have words like ‘sin’ and ‘grace’”
  67. “The ubiquity of sexual images does not free eros but dilutes it”
  68. “I like jazz because you can nap to it or dance to it”
  69. The Genius of the Chicago Flag
  70. Why are there no “pedestrian streets” in Chicago’s black neighborhoods?
  71. History “is not on the side of those who brook no dissent, ignore all counter-evidence, and demonize all opposition”
  72. Top 3 cities for small business in America
  73. Why Chicago is not the next Detroit
  74. “The US payday loans crisis: Borrow $100 to make ends meet, owe 36 times that sum”
  75. “We strive to fulfill the Genesis 1:28 creation mandate through built places”
  76. “Church planters and pastors, your greatest asset is the Word of God”
  77. On love and society
  78. Thank you, Mexico…
  79. “Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think”
  80. “The angel asked,”What are you doing here? This is a tomb and tombs are for dead people. Jesus is alive again!”
  81. “18 Things I Will Not Regret Doing With My Kids”
  82. “Think of your city as teeming with neighbors whom you are called to know, love, and engage with the gospel”
  83. “For the first time, [people] have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.”
  84. “The wicked disadvantage others to advance themselves. Th righteous disadvantage themselves to advance others”
  85. “I can’t really talk about race with the premise ‘I don’t have a problem’”
  86. Thy will be done
  87. “When we talk ‘culture’, Christian theology uniquely acknowledges both image of God and brokenness of sin”
  88. “He who calls you is faithful; he will certainly come through.”
  89. “Learn to read the signs of the times or be forced to read the writing on the wall”
  90. A prayer from Patrick on his namesake day
  91. Luther on prayer
  92. “Though he owes me nothing, he gives me everything I need”
  93. “Reading Ezra 9 will never feel urgent, but it is. A biblical diet forms us”
  94. “Leaders own all the problems and defer all the praise”
  95. Praying for happiness
  96. Inner life and outer life
  97. “Self-denial is saying only: He goes ahead of us; hold fast to him.”
  98. “The city [that’s] just about equally black, white and Latino”
  99. “This is not a love story. This is not even an erotic story”
  100. Seattle Flukes v. New England Cheats
  101. Peace for the city
  102. “The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship”
  103. “Could it be that France is in the early stages of a Christian revival?”
  104. “For eight years, Carlos Javier Ortiz photographed neighborhoods in Chicago riddled by bullets”
  105. The not-yet new year
  106. “Reforming health care means fiddling with an industry that is larger than the economies of all but five countries”
  107. Being the church in a world where social media cravings are harder to resist than nicotine
  108. “It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our saviour”
  109. “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it springs the issues of life”
  110. The scientific case for God
  111. 2 Thessalonians and New Year’s Resolutions
  112. “Contrary to what many books say, do not start with yourself…. your self-knowledge is limited.”

2014114 posts

  1. Interested in serving the church in a city?
  2. “…and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”
  3. Normalization of Pornography Fuels the Rape Culture
  4. Hard lessons from Mars Hill
  5. Live stream of “A Time To Speak”
  6. Good News! Great Joy! Parents, make this Christmas special for your family
  7. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all”
  8. Meet the doctor who still makes house calls — in Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods
  9. “this is a gospel issue because we’re all created in the image of God and redeemed equally”
  10. Christmas carols with Olivia, age 8
  11. Ferguson, Obama, and what’s next
  12. “As our personality becomes reorganized around God and his eternal life, self-denial becomes our settled disposition”
  13. Caring for ebola patients
  14. Why plant churches
  15. Church and art
  16. Pray for O Block: The most dangerous street in Chicago
  17. App’ing interpersonal relationships
  18. “some days leave me feeling more like Clark Griswold than the Apostle Paul”
  19. “God doesn’t just make people better. He makes people new.”
  20. Bottle rockets
  21. “Youth ministry is successful when students graduate knowing who they are in Christ”
  22. Half the U.S. population is in 146 counties
  23. “Work that is truly Christian is work well done”
  24. Ground Zero rebuild
  25. “Introducing a phone-shaped block that does nothing”
  26. Suffering, joy, life, and death
  27. “Theologically edited java jacket quotes”
  28. “we tell ourselves… we are entitled to know anything we want, as quickly as we want to know it”
  29. “The fact that God lays a burden of prayer and keeps us praying is the prima facie evidence that He purposes to grant the answer”
  30. “God didn’t promise that we would never go into the valley of the shadow of death.What he did promise is that he would go with us”
  31. “This I know, that God is for me.”
  32. “Morality is not Christianity”
  33. “The Holy Spirit has been given to apply the redemption that’s been purchased and worked out for us”
  34. Understanding the new sexual morality is necessary to effectively and winsomely counter it
  35. “How did Christ love the church? Self-sacrificially for her good”
  36. The god of open options
  37. Losing Iraq
  38. On manliness and maturity
  39. God loves the city
  40. ”ISIS’ violent overthrow of “Iraq’s largest Christian city”
  41. The Chicago Neighborhoods Project: A brand for every neighborhood
  42. “Why missionaries put their lives on the line”
  43. ”You may have forgotten, but an entire generation exists in between the Baby Boomers and Millennials”
  44. The startup that plans to solve the problem of high fees taking dollars from the working poor
  45. “The most debilitating form of clutter is organisational complexity”
  46. “this expanded downtown is adding residents faster than any other urban core in America”
  47. What Facebook makes us
  48. The Parable of the Lawn Mower
  49. Two questions that may help your church’s ministry
  50. “Reading is a bridge to thought”
  51. “There’s no difference between a brand and your best friend”
  52. “Humility [is] the place of entire dependence on God”
  53. “Grace be to all who love Jesus Christ with love incorruptible”
  54. “No crecemos en la fe por ‘creer en más cosas’, sino por confiar en la mano de Dios y en Su Palabra”
  55. “Reading Scripture and preaching Christ should give him as much credit as possible for ‘so great a salvation’”
  56. Talking to kids about porn
  57. “Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me”
  58. “Far be it from me to boast — except in the cross of Christ”
  59. “the biggest deal in sports licensing history”
  60. “Big Theology for Little Kids”
  61. “How can we conform to the image of a God we have not beheld?”
  62. San Francisco and the church
  63. To: My Fellow Zillionaires
  64. #4thofJuly weekend would be so much better with #USA playing #WorldCup
  65. Buzzfeed and death
  66. “without a cellphone, a book, or a television screen to stare at, the assignment quickly became too much to handle”
  67. Why would God care who I sleep with?
  68. Sabbath rest
  69. “22 men run a combined 154 miles in a mere 90 minutes”
  70. “we are nothing more than a few grains of sand in a majestic divine plan… that somehow by grace includes us”
  71. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
  72. “Plead my cause and redeem me.”
  73. The football: 1930-2014
  74. “Some demand signs; others seek wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified: The power and wisdom of God.”
  75. Quantifying Gangnam Style
  76. “The human heart is an idol factory.”
  77. “If there were bad guys in this town, I would definitely fight them.”
  78. Helpful info graphic about the Hobby Lobby case
  79. The Song of Moses
  80. “Jesus is who died — more than that, who was raised — who is withGod, who is interceding for us. Who, then, can separate us from his love?”
  81. “I am not in charge. I am not the purpose of my life. I will not find the ‘true’ me. I cannot create a better me”
  82. Preparing for Sunday on purpose
  83. “Look there’s a mouse! If you listen hard enough you can see it.”
  84. Noah (the movie, not the person)
  85. Sin’s multidimensionality
  86. “Don’t waste your time trying to believe in yourself.”
  87. “No other person, not even in my imagination, has ever loved me like he has.”
  88. A democrat congressman’s take on the #ACA’s contraception/abortifacient mandate
  89. 31 days of purity
  90. Celebrity and the pastorate
  91. “Let me hear your loving kindness in the morning, for in you I trust; let me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul”
  92. “Do not allow me success that exceeds my sanctification”
  93. “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore”
  94. “Dayuma, First Convert from Tribe that Martyred ‘Gates of Splendor’ Missionaries, Dies.”
  95. Five passages in the gospels where Jesus is friend of sinners
  96. The Economist’s biennial city cost-of-living index
  97. What government can really do and not do
  98. CDC data on abortions
  99. “He rescued me, because he delighted in me.”
  100. “This God—his way is perfect; his word proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.”
  101. “His dramatic capture ended a 12-year manhunt”
  102. “We evangelicals need a loftier ecclesiology”
  103. How you become you
  104. “The Bible is not about the best people making it up to God; it’s about God making it down to the worst people.”
  105. “The irresistible appeal of the romantic ideal”
  106. “Spending on you: Waste. On me: An investment in the future”
  107. Goodnight Pachuca.
  108. “Seaworthy Soul”
  109. [Christian theology] “cannot be content with philosophies that deed a playing field to religion provided that it keeps in bounds…”
  110. A New Generation and abortion
  111. “the wealth of the richest 50 in the US Congress is $1.6B; it’s $95B for the richest 50 in China’s Congress”
  112. 2013 Year in photos
  113. “you are a slave to what you obey”
  114. “A New Year’s Plea: Plan!”

2013152 posts

  1. “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer”
  2. “Men who do not know God must always lurch and wobble.”
  3. Oxford digitizes one of the few remaining original Gutenberg Bibles
  4. The Big Mac Index
  5. The end of a 75-year oil monopoly
  6. “Our desire is that kids not only know all the Bible stories, but know the Bible story”
  7. “Whenever God calls people out of darkness he calls them into the church”
  8. Screenshot: More evidence of the Internet getting dumber
  9. “The country faces a crisis of mutual resentment, masquerading as a general collapse in national morale…”
  10. Smart Cities Debate on the Economist
  11. All cultures need the Gospel
  12. “Christ is the end of ‘righteousness by law’ for anyone who believes”
  13. Amazon Prime Air
  14. Women and men are just the same, except for all of their differences
  15. “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
  16. Sayers on work
  17. Children featured in dystopias
  18. Danger of the Single Story
  19. “The NSA has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect global Google data centers”
  20. “In the world you will experience suffering. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
  21. “The most significant change in Mexico’s economic policy in 100 years.”
  22. Q: How many Kindles would it take to bring down a Boeing?
  23. “The greatest single secret of evangelistic or missionary effectiveness is the willingness to suffer and die”
  24. “Gospel fruit (addressing felt needs) should not be confused with gospel root — the substitutionary death of Christ.”
  25. “before we had done anything, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself”
  26. “God is his own interpreter.”
  27. “I’m not for socializing the gospel. I’m for gospelizing the social.”
  28. “In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
  29. “In God’s mind, Christ was crucified before Adam failed. Calvary is Plan A.”
  30. “You have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before you in the light of life.”
  31. “It is the political equivalent of the Somme: Great damage has been done, but barely any ground gained.”
  32. “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
  33. “The basic point is this: I, like many young evangelicals, don’t need more worldliness. I need less.”
  34. “Father, thank you that the Gospel can change anyone”
  35. “Only 1% of Christians share their faith. We choose to see the 99% upside potential of that stat”
  36. “We must serve our communities. And we must verbalize the Gospel as we serve”
  37. “Whenever you liberate oppressed people someone loses money”
  38. “But in my heart I know that my vindicator lives, and that he will rise last to speak in court”
  39. “Lord, I acknowledge that every moment I would be stumbling if you were not upholding me.”
  40. “Why is it called the ‘Death Star’? I thought it was gonna be a star. That’s not a star. Looks more like the ‘Death Moon’ to me.”
  41. “sabotaging such codes is akin to a government secretly commanding lockmakers to make their products easier to pick”
  42. From one millennial to another…
  43. Info-blitzkrieg
  44. “What great culture doesn’t love to eat, and isn’t proud of their food?”
  45. 204 apply. 32 qualify.
  46. “What shall separate us from the love of Christ?”
  47. Awenderniful
  48. So which is it? A street or a road?
  49. Latin Americans spend twice as much time tweeting as the rest of the world
  50. “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely… He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.”
  51. Necessary reading for anyone wanting to know more about Missouri and Don James’ successful Husky teams
  52. Using Facebook makes you miserable
  53. “Let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains…”
  54. On the difficulty of conciseness
  55. The $330,000.00 hamburger
  56. US Soccer is winning
  57. “You have put more joy in my heart, oh Lord, than they have when their grain and wine abound.”
  58. “There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.”
  59. “I wonder why they call it ‘sound asleep.’ Shouldn’t it be ‘quiet asleep’?”
  60. “One time I woke up in the night, and my sister was wide asleep.”
  61. “The past 20 years have seen a massive redistribution of economic power to the emerging world.”
  62. “There are but two dwellings: Earth’s flimsy tent and heaven’s unassailable stronghold. One may be destroyed; the other endures forever.”
  63. “Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.”
  64. “the F.A.A. is on the verge of acknowledging what the public has suspected for years—that their rules are arbitrary”
  65. The American City
  66. The problem with the secret security apparatus
  67. “La Biblia no es un testigo de la mejor clase de gente logrando llegar a Dios…”
  68. Mexico City hit by earthquake
  69. “Narcissists ‘like’ Facebook and Twitter”
  70. “if this book was really going to touch lives, it was going to have to be transparent [about] Melissa’s death”
  71. “Faith is the best way for humans to express love for God.”
  72. “We know that only in the darkness do we discover the beauty of God’s grace”
  73. “Having your kid in the bed is like trying to sleep next to a goat with a fever in a laundry bag on a turntable.”
  74. “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory”
  75. The surveillance state
  76. “the American public [has] no idea that the executive branch is now exercising this power”
  77. “Chewbacca hasn’t aged a day. Must be a Wookiee thing.”
  78. Jailtime for painting a crosswalk
  79. “aun si esto implica una crítica social, penalidades financieras, o persecución criminal.”
  80. “Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, merry mery mary Mary Poppins.” ♫
  81. “Here we have no lasting city. We seek the city that is to come.”
  82. Learning from the Global South
  83. How screens are taking our holiday
  84. Advice on swimming with sharks
  85. “The most international city in the U.S.”
  86. “I always binge on media when I’m in America. But this time it feels different… It feels like it’s bingeing back.”
  87. “One of the most concrete meanings of grace is: ‘Now is the time to go on.’”
  88. “The only reason these rules exist from the F.A.A. is because of agency inertia and paranoia.”
  89. “Bookkeeping through all eternity could never produce one farthing.”
  90. “There is no purely secular domain of your life.”
  91. “With God we shall do valiantly.”
  92. “People who speak thus are seeking a homeland… They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.”
  93. “40% of scientists believe in a personal God”
  94. “It is astounding to look at the knife edge of improbability upon which our existence exists.”
  95. “Rationalization is the homage paid by guilt to moral knowledge”
  96. Remembering Dallas Willard
  97. Do they hand out trophies for short-term missions?
  98. “The missional nature of Scripture is the basis for the Great Commandment and the Great Commission”
  99. Missionaries “must truly be bicultural or transcultural people, living in different worlds but not fully at home in any of them.”
  100. “Normal” and “insane”
  101. “The fact that we can look at sex-and-money sin and feel comfortable with reliance on human intervention is insane.”
  102. “Mexico City has emerged as an unlikely environmental example for cities in developing countries”
  103. “Keep hold of instruction; do not let her go; guard her, for she is your life.”
  104. ”Of critical importance to American success in this last century has been a tremendous influx of global talent”
  105. “Latino evangelicals are one of the fastest growing segments of America’s churchgoing millions”
  106. “…nobility depends on the pursuit of greatness over profit…”
  107. “Journalist blows whistle on the brutal bias in newsrooms”
  108. “Love is a commitment of the will to the true good of the other person”
  109. Immigration follows opportunity…
  110. Atheist no more
  111. Christianity Today ya está disponible en español
  112. “how can it be true that we have no fig leaf of private life remaining but we hunger for yet more reality?”
  113. “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
  114. Texas in 1 minute
  115. “Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth?”
  116. “It may be the greatest home-field advantage in sports history.”
  117. “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart…”
  118. “I’m here to transform the country, not simply run it”
  119. Witnessing papal history changes with digital age
  120. “And he said, ‘Behold, I am making a covenant. And you shall see my work, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.’”
  121. “I can carry a gun but not a pair of pliers.”
  122. “Ugh. The sun went down again”
  123. “Flee from counterfeit gods.”
  124. “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
  125. “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.”
  126. Christians must think about how to speak truthfully and lovingly to a society that sees them as the moral outlaws
  127. Excelente recurso en español para cualquier Cristiano comprometido
  128. “Lecciones de la adversidad desde Ciudad Juárez”
  129. No Parking
  130. Pedophilia and normalization
  131. “I see no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.”
  132. “[Some] believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show the bulldozers where to go work.”
  133. Spiders raining from the sky. Thousands of them.
  134. “Who is this who comes…marching in the greatness of his strength? ‘It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.’”
  135. “You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married.”
  136. “You can do this ministry with God’s help - so give it your all. You can’t do this ministry without God’s help - so be at peace.”
  137. Gospel Coalition launches Spanish site
  138. “If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility”
  139. The Internet and the soul
  140. Titletown
  141. “Fear not, little ones, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
  142. Cocaine Inc.
  143. “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge…”
  144. “All food is weird until you try it.”
  145. We often think of community as simply one more thing we have to follow in the rules…
  146. “the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment… but my salvation will be forever…”
  147. “God wants the world to overhear us worshiping him.”
  148. 30 years later, this sermon is just as applicable this New Year
  149. Six Marks of a Missional Church
  150. “I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other”
  151. “My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.”
  152. “Not a minor omission”

2012203 posts

  1. Which way?
  2. “While Counterculturalists are often too afraid of exercising power in society, many Transformationalists are not afraid enough.”
  3. “Oh Lord, say to my soul, ‘I am your salvation!’”
  4. “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.”
  5. “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”
  6. Confusion about hypocrisy
  7. Interesting (and intelligent) online debate about government and marriage
  8. “Sexy ’n’ Spiritual”
  9. “Jesus was killed outside the city that was, to give us the city to come, and makes us light in the city that is.”
  10. EIU world city rankings
  11. “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness…”
  12. Keller on thinking through church size; especially helpful for the church planter
  13. “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.”
  14. New President of Mexico Takes Office
  15. “That man’s voice hurts my throat.”
  16. “It is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised he would. Be very careful, therefore, to love him foremost.”
  17. “No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.”
  18. “He rescued me, because he delighted in me.”
  19. “I say to The Lord, ‘You are my King; I have no good apart from you.’”
  20. “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.”
  21. Love and Wrath, the Bible, David and Job
  22. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”
  23. “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
  24. Do presidents really make a difference in the Pro-life/Pro-choice debate?
  25. Pray for “for all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, Godly and dignified in every way.”
  26. 190 Internets
  27. The reversal: Immigration from the West to the Global South
  28. “Through Christ he poured out his Spirit on us richly, so that being justified by his grace we might become his heirs.”
  29. Face to face vs. e-contact
  30. “If salvation is by grace, not merit, why should we think anyone is less likely to be a Christian?”
  31. “How to Buy Gold When Your Broke”
  32. Get ready: “Hello mothers, hello father”
  33. Morality of voting
  34. “The Global Mexican”
  35. Gospel and Taxes
  36. “He bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
  37. America needs to rethink its immigration policy
  38. “Honk if you had an affair with Taylor”
  39. “Gospel, culture, and mission: an interview with Tim Keller”
  40. “A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956 That Is Now on YouTube.”
  41. “Let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who desires take the water of life and drink without any cost to him.”
  42. Real-Talk Answers to the Presidential Debate Questions
  43. “He’ll wipe away every tear. And death, mourning, crying, and pain shall be no more, for the old things will have passed away.”
  44. “I am coming soon.”
  45. Another step closer to real-life Wall-E
  46. Once as you are
  47. “My son, don’t you see that all that I have is yours? Now come, celebrate with me.”
  48. “These tennis shoes are gonna grow outta me fast.”
  49. Bella- “Will there be electricity in heaven?
  50. “You open Your hand and satisfy the the desire of every living thing.”
  51. “He has saved us and called us — not because of anything we have done, but because of His own purpose and grace”
  52. “Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.”
  53. Doesn’t comprehending “insert the metal fitting into the buckle” preclude anyone who has no familiarity with a seatbelt?
  54. “Seeking your own glory is like eating too much honey. It makes you sick.”
  55. “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.”
  56. Competitiveness: The wealth of nations
  57. Most cogent definition of contextualization I’ve read to date
  58. Three baseline American cultural narratives: “God” (17-mid 18th century) “Nation” (mid 18-20th) “Self” (present)
  59. “We should not confuse populism with democracy”
  60. Subject of the Bible
  61. “Saving faith is never less than intellectual assent, but it is always more than that”
  62. “Our truth-allergic, experience-addicted populace wants transformation, without the loss of freedom and control associated with submission”
  63. “Most of our problems in life come from a lack of proper orientation to the gospel”
  64. “Because the gospel is endlessly rich, it can handle the burden of being the one main thing…”
  65. Campaign fact-checking
  66. “It is critical… to communicate the gospel clearly and strikingly
  67. “The Secret Race”
  68. From death to life… twice
  69. “He is my Rock! My Fortress! My Deliverer! My God! My Strength! My Refuge! My Shield! My Savior! My Stronghold! He is worthy.”
  70. “Cause me to hear your lovingkindness, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.”
  71. Jesus’ desert temptations compared to the temptations facing the Church…
  72. Playing soccer on the world’s largest mosaic
  73. “The Little Paris of the Orient”
  74. The Narco Tunnels of Nogales
  75. “When you’re in college, do they teach you how to be a mom or a dad?”
  76. “Here’s why I’m writing these books.”
  77. Incredible photography from another planet
  78. The team that failed to qualify for the Olympics beats the team that took home the Gold
  79. Where does “maker culture” come from?
  80. “They did a good job of picking music that matches their costumes.”
  81. “Apart from its policemen and firemen, Sandy Springs has only seven full-time employees.”
  82. “Keeping first things first makes second things better.”
  83. “Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it.”
  84. Mexico advances to the final football match
  85. NYT’s “every medalist ever” 4-part infographic and video series
  86. “Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God.”
  87. “There has never been a generation whose view of marriage is high enough.
  88. “The transaction- Our sin was imputed to Christ; he was condemned. His righteousness was imputed to us; we are justified.”
  89. “If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.”
  90. “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings.”
  91. Making Sense of Scripture’s ‘Inconsistency’
  92. “Mourning the loss of an American icon, and remembering why we all want to live in Mayberry…”
  93. Views of the flag in church services
  94. “Legends became so by great suffering and great feats.”
  95. “Christian hope turns the church into something far more profound than a club or an interest group.”
  96. Religion in Africa: Celebrity priests
  97. A cogent overview of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare…
  98. FAQ on the contraception debate
  99. “A pastor in awe of God”
  100. “We’re telling Christians singles that it is permissible to start having sex, just as long as they don’t finish.”
  101. Immigration and a city’s greatness
  102. “For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it… My glory I will not give to another.”
  103. “Who is this who comes… marching in the greatness of his strength? ‘It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.’”
  104. C.S. Lewis on male and female, Christ and church…
  105. If Mayors Ruled the World
  106. On marriage and the elusive finding “someone better…”
  107. “Only if we are very good at forgiving and very good at repenting can truth and love be kept together.”
  108. Are ministry ‘trellises’ a necessary evil?
  109. 30% of people born after 1980 feel anxiety if they don’t check Facebook every few minutes
  110. “To be God, to be like God, and to be miserable; these are the only three alternatives.”
  111. “we all… beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.”
  112. Lewis Smedes on the power of promising
  113. “Awkwardness is the biggest threat to evangelism for far too many of us”
  114. Viewing Immigration from the Low Places
  115. C.S. Lewis on protecting one’s heart
  116. “The most painful, the most wonderful — this is the Biblical understanding marriage…”
  117. Where did marriage come from?
  118. “Profiles from the Culture of Death…”
  119. Pray for Steve Saint, his family, and ITEC
  120. “The Juvenilization of American Chrstianity…”
  121. “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison”
  122. Parenting and the hook-up culture
  123. Deterministic genetic science and fatalism
  124. The changing face of belief in Mexico
  125. “The idea that a Web site could deliver a more friendly, interconnected world is bogus.”
  126. “We live in an isolation that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors and yet we have never been more accessible.”
  127. Outstanding thoughts on “authenticity…”
  128. “The brain is not a shoebox that ‘gets full,’ but is rather a muscle that expands its capacity with increased use”
  129. “Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.”
  130. “In the 180 years since Greece gained its independence, it’s been in financial default or restructuring for half that period”
  131. How to Teach Salvation: Three Mysteries
  132. “the churches most committed to owning businesses are the ones least likely to stand on their own two feet”
  133. “America’s CEOs: Richly rewarded, regardless of performance”
  134. 2012 year of presidential elections in US and Mexico
  135. “Self-control, not merely efficient productivity, ought to be our objective”
  136. Dear Pa Pa,
  137. On youth, evangelicalism, politics, social issues, church, and policy in America…
  138. Mexican immigration: Low tide
  139. Mexico’s presidential election: The man to beat
  140. “Visa form weirdness in Mexico…”
  141. Robots write the news
  142. “Senses of love and justice are activated together, not in opposition to each other”
  143. Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational
  144. 11 billionaires are worth 12.5% of Mexico’s economy
  145. Photos and report of Popocatepetl
  146. Mexico’s shifting religious demographic
  147. The 80s were so weird
  148. “The entire Bible pivots on one weekend in Jerusalem about two thousand years ago”
  149. “Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.”
  150. “O LORD, you have searched me and known me!”
  151. “Blessed be to God for the day of rest… wherein earthly things assume their true size. Ambition is stunted.”
  152. “Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along… Give yourselves regular checkups.”
  153. “We were bought with a price.”
  154. “He’s not here. He has risen, just as he said.”
  155. Against Youth
  156. “Jesus didn’t have to die despite God’s love; he had to die because of God’s love.”
  157. “And if trees and hills will be able to clap and dance in the future kingdom, picture what you and I will be able to do.”
  158. The Best Way To Develop Leadership Skills- The Non-profit Board.
  159. “Most people… know that they want… acutely something that cannot be had in this world” #CSLewis.
  160. “Sometimes God seems to be killing us when he’s actually saving us.
  161. Atheist ‘Flabbergasted’ by Outpouring of Christian Charity
  162. “Exhibit God’s character: Not his holiness without his love; that is harshness. Not his love without his holiness; that is compromise.”
  163. Hard Hits and Bounties in Football and Politics
  164. “Under blob rule, no human is in charge”
  165. “I love trapeze food”
  166. Good thoughts on why and how we meet together as Christians
  167. “Awe at the human capacity for vice”
  168. “Christians still do healthcare better than anyone”
  169. Do I really love God? How much?
  170. Passport design, who knew?
  171. Patron-Client Missions
  172. Linsanity and Jesus
  173. The Myths of Progress and Relevance
  174. Economics 101: Productivity Starts at Home
  175. Pray for Youcef
  176. “Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding…”
  177. Well-articulated Biblical perspective on an age-old argument
  178. “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life”
  179. Carlos Slim: “Let Mexico’s moguls battle”
  180. Gospel Clarity for Mission Calling
  181. “Learning is remembering”
  182. Evangelical leaders call for civil disobedience
  183. “Moral ambiguity is not moral innocence”
  184. 5 Signs Waiting Has Weakened Your Faith
  185. Sexual ethics and Christ and church
  186. Photo: Cell phones before and after the iPhone
  187. Economy and happiness
  188. Immigrants founded half of top U.S. start-up companies
  189. The Myth of Multitasking
  190. Best jam session ever
  191. Is Hell the absence of God?
  192. The anti-TOMS shoe
  193. America, Asia, and Apple
  194. Intricate web of the global supply chain
  195. “An aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked”
  196. Feeding the ‘Hellenized Latinos’
  197. Is Christianity the New KGB?
  198. King Carlos I and Steve Jobs
  199. Moving Pro-Life Legislation Forward: The Need for Prudence and Civility
  200. The end of an era
  201. The “empowering aspect of naïveté”
  202. “A significant step towards full spatio-temporal cloaking”
  203. Eli Laughs

201192 posts

  1. City building: Hong Kong in Honduras
  2. Mexico’s leaders tweet
  3. Who Christians Are
  4. Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
  5. The empire strikes back
  6. Everything you know about education is wrong
  7. Thoughts on Celebrity and Christianity
  8. “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
  9. “The goal of Christian ministry is quite simple and measurable: Are we making genuine disciples of Jesus Christ?”
  10. Motivation matters in Gospel proclamation
  11. “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.”
  12. Jobs’s theory of decline applied to American politics
  13. “Only Christians who lived and argued together at the prodding of the Holy Spirit”
  14. Homesick
  15. To Be or Not to Be (Judeo-Christian)
  16. “Fewer Teens Are Having Sex These Days”
  17. “A human being’s moral integrity begins when he is prepared to sacrifice his life for his convictions.”
  18. “Some boast of chariots and horses, but we boast the Lord our God.”
  19. Wasted Charity
  20. Interesting Response to Gladwell’s article on Steve Jobs
  21. Is Your Congressman Trading on Inside Information?
  22. Why is China building these gigantic structures in the middle of the desert?
  23. Mexico sees a decline in support for democracy
  24. “The experiment taking place in Alabama makes no sense”
  25. Bonhoeffer on faith and hardship
  26. Gospel-centered?
  27. The Right Question: “What is the will of God?”
  28. “To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.”
  29. Compassion in a World of Seven Billion
  30. “Despite all this, the American foreign missions force is still the largest in the world.”
  31. “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
  32. The power of the “social graph”
  33. The question is- Has technology made life better?
  34. Social uplift as a natural consequence of Christian discipleship
  35. “Policymakers will always drive in the dark. However, they must stop pretending that they can see the road”
  36. Urban reality and urban ministry
  37. Bonhoeffer on tragedy
  38. Bonhoeffer’s love letter
  39. Evil’s masquerade
  40. “Imagine if a bank paid you interest on your mortgage”
  41. More from Bonhoeffer to his fiancé
  42. Starr to Farve to Rodgers: A Lesson
  43. Islamic televangelists
  44. “Missionary Money: Easier to Give, Worth Less than Ever”
  45. Occupy Wall Street in Global Context: Protests around the World of the past year
  46. Extensive data set: “Index of Economic Freedom”
  47. Stunning photo depicts urban contradiction
  48. Adversity and holiness
  49. F.F. Bruce on God’s discipline
  50. Mexico working to become an “Open Government” leader
  51. Mystery of Adversity
  52. Obama is not the Pharaoh
  53. The ‘Big Love’ Strategy
  54. Will the Poor Always Be with Us?
  55. Old newspaper clipping about a Allied officers in a POW camp in WWII
  56. Pressing on “…to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”
  57. To Fix Inequality, You Would Need to Literally Occupy (and Destroy) Wall Street
  58. “Asking the justice system to reform itself was like tying up a dog with a string of sausages”
  59. “We’re just sticking a green smiley face on the same old corporate welfare”
  60. Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late.
  61. No Messiah Running
  62. Projecting Poverty Where It Doesn’t Exist
  63. Most Americans Aren’t “Occupy Wall Street’s 99 Percent”
  64. The Great Boatlift
  65. “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”
  66. Abortion law in Mexico
  67. “Fear of what? Confiscation? Banishment? Torture? Death? Have you no other threat?”
  68. Five Necessary Shifts for “Missional” College Ministry
  69. Good News: Jesus Is Not Nice
  70. “It’s too soon to celebrate and too soon to quit.”
  71. Migrating violence in Mexico: herding cockroaches
  72. God’s Will for Your Wait
  73. “Walking in the footsteps of pioneers requires not walking in their footsteps”
  74. “When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.”
  75. Crime in Mexico: The governor’s miraculous achievement
  76. Genghis Khan’s Urban Clan
  77. City Fines Couple for Hosting Bible Studies
  78. “Own the complexity of urban evangelism. Its not homogeneous, safe, or predictable”
  79. Holiness by obedience
  80. John Owen on “cheap grace”
  81. “Being shamed by nerds is a useful exercise”
  82. Free speech in Mexico
  83. Religion and Inequality Go Hand-in-Hand
  84. The futility of control; the reason to rest
  85. The United States and Latin America: partnership, and its obstacles
  86. Forgiven and Born Again: Two Things at Once
  87. The King Jesus Gospel
  88. Obedience and Bible study
  89. The Post Office
  90. ”Could it be that a whole lot of what we ministers do is driven by worry and not by faith?”
  91. Happy 250th birthday, William Carey
  92. ”How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways,” he answered, “gradually and then suddenly.” -Ernest Hemingway

20091 post

  1. Sometimes It Just Seems Good: Another Look at Missionary Call

20071 post

  1. Visualizing the data from Hofstede’s “Cultures and Organizations”