January 2012 – Page 3 – Red Letter Christians

If You Wanna Get to Heaven, You Might Wanna Listen to the Ozark Mountain Daredevils (Ode to Dale and Mary)

January 14, 2012

Dale and I became fast friends a few years ago because of our love for the music of that Missouri band of rural hippie farmers known as the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Their song “Beauty in the River” is one of ...

Hating Religion, Loving Jesus: A Well-Meaning False Dichotomy

Christian Piatt

January 13, 2012

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This week has seen a new viral sensation take over our computer screens. A spoken word artist who goes by the name Bball1989 released a video on YouTube that has, in less than a week, received more than six...

On the Receiving End: Beggars and PBJ

Chris Lahr

January 13, 2012

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Two Years Later: A Prayer for Haiti

Kent Annan

January 12, 2012

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Loving God, We come to you, first, in silence. We mourn those who died two years ago in the earthquake. And we mourn with those who continue to mourn. We come to you in sadness, too, for the suffering of...

The Kingdom Belongs to Such as These? (Luke 18:15-17)

Morf Morford

January 11, 2012

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I am less concerned about whether there is a Hell or not, than I am about the supposedly agreed upon criteria for going – or not going – there. Most people that I know with – or without – faith presume that t...

Why Gender Hierarchy Makes No Biblical Sense to Me

Morgan Guyton

January 10, 2012

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My wife and I decided to do something bold for our wedding. Each of us preached while the other person washed our feet, rotating halfway through the sermon. The text we preached on was the controversial Ephesi...

It’s Tebow Time!

Joe Perdue

January 9, 2012

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First, let me say that I am a Tim Tebow fan. If you had asked me what time it was on any given Saturday between 2006 and 2010 I would have told you it was Tebow time, because it almost always was. But I'm not...

Can Christians Learn from the War in Iraq?

Craig M. Watts

January 9, 2012

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A number of commentators have been asking what lessons we might learn from the war in Iraq. With American troops having been so recently withdrawn from that nation, this is certainly an appropriate question. I...

Identity Crisis: A Jesus that is Insipid and Powerless

Ann Fedeli

January 8, 2012

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I sense that the church is in the midst of a serious, but potentially transforming, identity crisis. Several observations have led me to this conclusion. On one hand, I see a church that appears to have fo...

The Nerd Gospel

Christian Piatt

January 7, 2012

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I have a number of identifiers on my various venues I write for and on my email signature: heretic, antagonist, father, son, instigator, pop culture junkie, theologian, social media guru, and so on. B...