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When Heaven Touches Earth: Visiting La Sagrada Familia…again!
By Steve on April 13, 2013
Hi all, I’m currently in Spain and I just got done visiting my favorite cathedral on earth: La Sagrada Familia. Readers of Beyond the Pale know that my passion is for the Kingdom of Heaven,…
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“Breaking News” shows American Christianity’s true “Kingdom” culture
By Steve on April 9, 2013
Like many of you I was saddened to hear of the tragic suicide of Pastor Rick Warren’s 27 year old son Matthew. My heart as a father broke for the Warrens and I have every…
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What Does Rob Bell Talk About When He Talks About God: A Book Review
By Steve on April 5, 2013
Ok, I actually finished Rob Bell’s What We Talk About When We Talk About God a couple weeks ago but right when I was set to blog a review, he dropped the “affirming gay marriage”…
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Why I Celebrate Passover! (and why you should think about it)
By Steve on April 3, 2013
Forget what you’ve heard about differing views on creed, theology, and politics, within evangelical Christianity, when it comes down to it we are really divided between those that have NO IDEA what a Passover meal…
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This Easter Which Messiah would YOU Choose?
By Steve on April 1, 2013
On that first Easter week more than 2000 years ago, many of us are familiar with the moment where the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, in keeping with the Passover tradition of releasing one prisoner back…
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Rediscovering “The Way” of Jesus
By Steve on March 27, 2013
Last week I had an interesting conversation with friends around my dining room table. In John 14:6 Jesus gives the familiar quote, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to…
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Palm Sunday: Do We Still Have “No King But Caesar”?
By Steve on March 24, 2013
It’s Palm Sunday. The day the church traditionally celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem just days before his execution. The sad irony of the story is of course, that the throngs of crowds who…
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Rob Bell’s Comments on Marriage Equality: Some Thoughts…
By Steve on March 19, 2013
Rob Bell has done it again! I really thought one of my next posts would be a review of Bell’s new book, What Do We Talk About When We Talk About God which I am…
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When the Church looks like Downton Abbey!
By Steve on March 16, 2013
Any Downton Abbey fans out there? The hit show from Great Britain chronicling the lives of an aristocratic family as it collides with the 20th century has become the addiction d’ jour for my wife…
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TED 2013, Allan Savory… and Genesis!
By Steve on March 13, 2013
If you’re like me you are probably familiar with TED. The series of conferences where leading figures give short 20 minute talks in fields as diverse as science, politics, religion, and media. The talks themselves…