Monthly Archives: January 2012
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 6-Gospel Branding
This is the final post of a series: Introduction Part 1-Defining “Gospel Centrality” Part 2-Everything is Justification Part 3- Jesus? Part 4- Eggheadism Part 5- Morals of the Story Gospel Branding In this final post of this series, let’s talk about one final pitfall-branding. Branding is a big deal. Corporate trademarks like Nike and Coca-Cola [...]
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 5-Morals of the Story
This is part 5 of an ongoing series. Introduction Part 1- Defining “Gospel Centrality” Part 2- Everything is Justification Part 3- Jesus? Part 4- Eggheadism Morals of the Story If you’ve endured a certain amount of preaching, you probably have found some bizarre sermons preached out of bizzare texts. One of my personal favorites is [...]
Help Reach Unreached People Groups in NYC!
For those who don’t know, our family is currently raising support and preparing to move to New York City in a few months to work with the 60,000 Bangladeshis there. We will be working through a new organization called “Global Gates”, which coordinate the work among unreached people groups in New York City. Anyways, there are [...]
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 4- Eggheadism
This is part 4 of an ongoing series. Be sure to catch up on the previous posts! Intro Part 1- Defining “Gospel Centrality” Part 2- Everything is Justification Part 3- Jesus? Eggheadism Eggheadism is a danger in many Christian circles, not just the “Gospel-centered” ones. I can name a few circles of Evangelicalism where I [...]
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 3- Jesus?
This is the 3rd post in an ongoing series. Be sure to catch up before going on! Intro Part 1- Defining Gospel Centrality Part 2- Everything is Justification Part 3- Jesus? We could call this the “de-personalizing” error. In short, one pitfall that any truly Gospel-centered movement must watch out for is losing sight of [...]
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 2- Everything is Justification…
This is the 2nd post in a series called “Gospel-Centered Pitfalls”. You can read the intro and Part 1- Defining Gospel Centrality before heading into this one. One of the first dangers I see possible for the “Gospel-centered” movement is an unhealthy emphasis on “justification.” Hold on with the pitchforks and torches, my theology of [...]
“Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls Part 1-Defining Gospel-Centrality
We’ll get to the J-word next post. But I didn’t feel I could rightly discuss potential hazards and missteps of “Gospel centrality” without first laying a basic grid for what I mean by the term. After all, without knowing the destination, it’s hard to know whether course corrections are needed. The idea of being Gospel-centered [...]
New Series- “Gospel-Centered” Pitfalls
I’ll be starting a new series this week revolving around the whole topic of “Gospel centrality.” The phrase “Gospel-centered” (or -driven or -powered) has sort of blown up over the last few years, apparently 1/2 of new Christian books are required to have some form of it in the title. (Your Best Gospel-Centered Life Now!) [...]
Wide shoes and discipleship.
I have wide feet. I know that’s not much of a confession, but it’s true. One of the negative aspects of playing sports at a private Christian high school was scrounging through my dad’s closet twice a week for dress shoes and ties on game days. And my dad would often get upset because though [...]
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