John March

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  • A Parable on Race

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    One of the biggest mistakes white evangelicals make when thinking or talking about race is to assume that it is a personal issue.  We often think that because we don’t believe people of color are inferior to white people that we aren’t racist.  We believe that racism is a personal sin issue that should be…

  • An Angry Attitude

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    Two days ago my kids sneaked off with a box of strawberry cake batter mix from our pantry.  They ran to their room and opened it with the intention of eating the mix.  Not surprisingly, when they opened the bag some of the mix began to spill on the floor.  This became a game for…

  • Faith Firsts

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    In the next 10 days or so, we plan to close on our first house and have our first worship service as a church plant.  Both of these decisions have been big steps of faith for us.  Over the past 6 to 8 months, I’ve increasingly been making decisions that are rooted in my faith…

  • Why Power Prevents the Prophetic

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    Willimon on the problem of power if one is on top, well fixed, secure, then one can afford to be sanguine about sin.  We people in power always think of ourselves as basically good people living in a well-ordered world.  Why not? It is our world.  To such folk, “prophetic ministry” means mostly minor tinkering…

  • ‘The Racist’ as the Identified Patient

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    I blogged about the controversy surrounding the deadlyvipers.org site a couple of days ago.  There has been a lot of good commentary (here for example), and I’ve learned a bit more about the nature of racism through this process.  As I watched the drama unfold, first with Soong-Chan pointing out the DV site on twitter,…

  • Fear as a lagging indicator of Faith

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    Stepping out in faith to attempt something new for God is hard.  Making the initial decision is hard, but following through with it can be even harder.  As we attempt to live into the new and scary journey God calls us to, uncertainty and fear well up in our hearts.  We wonder, can I really…

  • Deadly Vipers and Acceptable Racism

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    There’s a whirlwind of blog commentary over the marketing strategy employed by Zondervan and on display over at deadlyvipers.org.  So much as been written, I’ll just share two links, and a quote. Soong Chan Rah’s Blog Eugene Cho’s post Here’s a quote from Eugene’s blog that sums it up for me: Folks may think the…

  • A Day With More Time

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    Today is Daylight savings time, that magical day when, unlike the parallel Spring day from hell, we get to add an extra hour to our night’s sleep — our clocks fall back instead of springing forward, and we are given a day with 25 hours instead of 24. Every other night we go to bed…

  • Gang Rape and God’s Wrath

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    This is pretty much the worst story I’ve read in a while.  A 15-year old girl was gang raped outside her school on the night of homecoming.  She was abused for 2.5 hours by multiple people while as many as 10 people stood by watching and yet did nothing.  She was found unconscious under a…

  • Shrewd Manager (Luke 16:1-13)

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    Last night at our Community Gathering for New City Covenant, we talked about money.  One of the passages we talked about was Luke 16:1-13.  In these verses Jesus tells a parable about a shrewd manager in order to explain why we cannot serve two masters, God and money.  You can read the parable here.  It’s weird,…