October 19, 2007

“A Passion for Me” – Pastoral Analysis and Counsel Concerning the “Tale of Two Amishmen.”

Disclaimer and Foreword: Many of my readers know nothing of Joe Zichterman and the following response will make no sense whatsoever. I would not bother.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Fundamentalism , Zichterman’s New Direction

October 17, 2007

Eccentric Hospitality

Written for our family blog by my brother, Tim Bixby. On Wednesday morning as we were preparing to leave Rockford, Ill., for the Cincinnati, Ohio.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Church Ministry , Compassionate Ministry , Family , Tim Bixby

October 16, 2007

Joel Osteen - Miserable Failure

“We must not try to serve the Lord with our own kind of humanism and egoism. . . In this war if Christians win a.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Church Ministry

Thankful to be American

My wife and I read this long story in our Rockford paper this morning and we were both moved to tears. There are so.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Politics and Culture

October 11, 2007

Preposterous, yes, but planted by God

Disclaimer: From time to time when enough water has gone under the bridge and I feel I can share journal entries without risking the appearance.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Journal

“The infinite provincialism of atheism” - AND Dawkins and Hitchens Are Boringly Predictable

This is well stated on the absurdity of the increasingly popular atheists (i.e. Dawkins and Hitchens)..... (Click here to read this post.)
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October 06, 2007

Ridiculous Contextualization

Even the New York Times seems to think that Evangelicals’ craze to “fish for souls” using gratuitous violence is over the top. It’s worse than.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Church Ministry

October 05, 2007

A Must-Hear for the Jonah In You

We may be more Jonahic than we realize. I think all missionaries and pastors ought to hear this kind of message. Tim Bixby (France) preached.... (Click here to read this post.)
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This entry was posted in the following categories: Missions