Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional

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Book Review for Immediate Release
by Jim Miller
Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional
Jim Belcher
IVPress (February 1, 2009)
Is American evangelicalism dead? Some pollsters think so, including the Barna Research Group, the leading evangelical pollster in the nation, who tell us that the number of Americans holding conservative evangelical beliefs has shrunk in numbers from [...]

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Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010 and a New Year Resolution

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With the new year often comes a New Year Resolution. These resolutions come in all kinds of forms. We all made them and most of them have been broken. It seems to be an endless cycle. One of the resolutions that followers of Jesus often make is a resolution to read the Bible through during [...]

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Learning My Name

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Book Review for Immediate Release
by Jim Miller
Learning My Name
Pete Gall
Zondervan (July 1, 2009)
What if Karl Marx was right? What if religion is the opiate of the masses? Newcomer Pete Gall seems to think so. He begins his book, Learning My Name, by saying, “Maybe Karl Marx has a point, whether it was intended or not.” [...]

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Wash Behind Your Ears

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I think I was about five or six years old the first time I remember my mom telling me to wash behind my ears. This wasn’t a one time telling, it was persistent until the day I left her home when I was eighteen on my way to a short four year career in the [...]

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Top Ten Posts in 2009 on AskDrWinn

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There are lists everywhere. So, I decided to make one of my own at AskDrWinn.com. There you will find a Top 10 list of the most read posts on AskDrWinn for 2009. Who knows, there may be one there that you would like to read. You can see that list at http://bit.ly/5j0Vkx

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Christmas 1661

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Form the Diary of Samuel Pepys
December 25 1661
In the morning to church, where at the door of our pew I was fain to stay, because that the sexton had not opened the door. A good sermon of Mr. Mills. Dined at home all alone, and taking occasion from some fault in the meat to complain [...]

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Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith

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Book Review for Immediate Release
by Jim Miller
Growing with Purpose: Connecting with God Every Day
Shane Hipps
Zondervan (February 1, 2009)
I am of a generation that thinks a TV remote control is something like high technology. But I’m on a learning track, I think. Along my journey to technological savviness I chanced across a book that has opened [...]

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What’s In A Metahpor?

by drwinn

There are three parts to think about here.
First, there is a video to watch, then there is a new article to read, then there is a final question to think about.
First then, the following presentation about metaphors was delivered by James Geary in July 2009.

Next, read the following

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NKJV Greatest Stories of the Bible

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Book Review for Immediate Release
by Jim Miller
NKJV Greatest Stories of the Bible
Thomas Nelson Publishers (December 1, 2009)
Maybe at this point, a week from Christmas, you have run out of gift ideas. I have a suggestion for that reader on your list: you might want to drop by your local bookstore and see if you can [...]

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Growing with Purpose: Connecting with God Every Day

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Book Review for Immediate Release
by Jim Miller
Growing with Purpose: Connecting with God Every Day
Jon Walker
Zondervan (September 1, 2009)
I’m a daily devotional junkie. I think I have been through them all—Mrs. Cowman’s Streams in the Desert, Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest, Brennan Manning’s Reflections for Ragamuffins, A Year with C.S. Lewis (my favorite). And [...]

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