The Guilt Cycle by the Naked Pastor

The Naked Pastor on Patheos

Here is the cyclical pattern that a church and its members can absolutely thrive on:

  1. guilt: realizing that you failed to live up to an expectation
  2. shame: this failure means you are a bad person
  3. inspiration: you get inspired (by yourself, a preacher, books, etc.) to try again
  4. failure: you fail to measure up to what you were inspired to do
  5. recycle: start all over again with #1
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Wanting Jesus AND a smoking hot wife…

No, not Mark Driscoll, the Naked Pastor. 

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The End of Protestantism | First Things

Peter Leithart: on being a Reformed Catholic (not Roman).

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How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition

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CRC SPACT Meetings

http://www.crcna.org/news-and-views/discussing-state-church

Executive Summary of report for the CRC Strategic Planning and Adaptive Change Team

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Notes on Tim Keller’s Sermon: Sickness Unto Death

From the October 6 Sermon “Sickness Under Death” on Ecclesiastes 2:9-26

Herman Melville in Moby Dick, chapter 96 said that Ecclesiastes is the truest book in the world. (thanks for the citation Tim, I didn’t have to google it.)

Two things to understand about the book:

1. To understand Ecclesiastes, the author is “Qoheleth” and some believe it means “the professor”.

2. “in all this my wisdom stayed with me”. What he is saying is that this is a thought experiment. Now put yourself in this situation.

A long thought experiment and the main lesson.

A short thought experiment and an arrow.

The main thought experiment Continue reading →

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Pot and race

“Is Pot Legalization For White People?” http://feedly.com/k/1ecuVSJ

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Relationship Valuations

“Why Our Brains Are So Big” http://feedly.com/k/1aZnTgX

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Bolz-Weber’s liberal, foulmouthed version of Christianity

Lutheran pastor

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What CS Lewis did was help us see joy

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/11/03/surprised-by-joy-again-and-again/

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