I've Been Thinking About This…

Here are the supporting Scriptures from the message on ‘A Father’s Heart’, June 20, 2010. The audio message will be posted here: A Father’s Heart

… and the slides are here:

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Further readings on ‘A Father’s Heart’:

Want to know what your teenage kids are up against? This is an eye-opener:

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I think this is clever marketing. In Japan, although newspapers are more widely subscribed to than in the US, the publishers can see an inevitable decline as the next generation moves up. They also observe that the next generation is crazy about manga – a stylized form of cartoon.

Wired Magazine on 'Manga News'

Putting the two together, they are appealing to young potential readers by setting the news into manga – real news in cartoon form. Talk about adjusting your approach to meet the culture!

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1. Start the picture around the 1850s, at a time when almost everyone was still on board with a single sense of morality as defined by the Church & the Bible. Everybody believed a thing is either true on false – there was only absolute truth. It is a high standard to follow, and some fail. Many are already outside the church – alcoholics, prostitutes, the desperately poor, the willfully lost … which is odd, because they’re the very people Christ said he came to save, and with whom he frequently connected. Few Christians chose to notice this, however, and fewer did anything about it. (more…)

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It’s just struck me that somewhere around the time (in the twentieth century) that we stopped talking about marriage as God’s tool for propagation, we also stopped taking evangelism seriously. I wonder if there’s a connection? (more…)

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