John March

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  • Theology of House Buying: Money

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    This week at our Community Life Gathering we are talking about money, so I’ve been thinking about it more.  Jesus uses a bunch of different analogies to describe money in Matt. 6.  He says that the way we spend money is like a window into the soul.  How we spend our money reflects the well…

  • Theology of House Buying: Mission

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    In Don Miller’s book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, which I reviewed here, he begins with the story of a movie.  He wonders how the reader would feel about going to a movie in which the protagonist’s goal throughout the movie was to buy a Volvo.  The movie follows this character’s hard work…

  • Wii Tennis Tournament

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    Mary and I are hosting a Wii Tennis tournament/party this Friday.  We’ve still got a few spaces available that we’d love to have filled.  We’re going to use our LCD projector to project the screen onto our living room wall.  We’re hoping to get our little Wii guys as close to life-size as possible! If…

  • Give to Everyone Who Asks of You

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    There are a lot of poor people in Cincinnati.  I was there for a wedding earlier this year.  I was staying at a hotel in the city, so I wanted to be prepared in case I ran into any beggars.  I went to a drug store where they sold gift cards to fast food restaurants…

  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

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    Don Miller learns to live an exciting story.  That should be the subtitle to this book.  In the process of trying to turn his Blue Like Jazz book into a movie, he comes face-to-face with the reality that he is living a boring life.  He has to sit down with the movie producers and turn…

  • Prodigal God

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    In this book Tim Keller offers his expanded interpretation of the parable most often referred to as the Prodigal Son.  He says that the two sons represent two types of people into which all of humanity divides.  Each of us falls into one of two categories.  The first is represented by the younger brother who…

  • Abraham and Isaac

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    When I read that God said to Abraham, offer up your son as a sacrifice, I wonder if this story should have been left out of the Bible.  What does it have to do with a loving God and his relationship with his people?  Isn’t this just at best a bizarre case of emotional manipulation…

  • Personal Reflections on Power and Privilege

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    The following is an excerpt from a recent ordination paper that I wrote which sought to answer the following question: Explain the effect of power and privilege in areas of race, economic class and gender upon your life and ministry. If racism is a “system of advantage based on race,” (Tatum, Beverly Why are all the…

  • The Nones

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    Andrew Sullivan, a prolific blogger for the Atlantic, recently posted a story on the growing religious demographic called the Coming Age of the Nones.  I’ve blogged about this before (here and here).  He has some great insights.  He sets the stage with these statistics: In 1990, 8 percent of Americans reported that they had no…

  • In over my head

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    Have you heard this song by The Fray called Over My Head?  It’s a catchy tune.  I’m not really sure what the song is about, but the chorus speaks to me.  Every time I hear it on the radio it reminds me of my own inner turmoil.  Over and over throughout the song, the lead…