Index
Top Ten (well, actually, Eleven!) Posts:
My journey from traditional “church”, and some of what I’ve learned about being the church — the exciting, enticing and enthralling multi-faceted Body of Christ!
Our whole paradigm for “doing church” needs to radically shift from monologues delivered from detached podiums that safely isolate our leaders from effective fellowship.
Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts. Those with the gift of mercy are vital for what God wants to do in our age with an emerging new spiritual generation.
Like many, I found my validation in my gifts and abilities. If we understand the different spiritual gifts listed in Romans 12 — and find the one that corresponds to our personality — then we can instead begin to find our validation in pleasing the Father.
The Growing Idolatry of Civil Government
Too many Christians want to use the power of civil government to infringe on the God-ordained but different jurisdictions of self government, the family, the church and voluntary associations.
New Covenant Fellowship? Beware!
This post chronicles the decline and ongoing death thralls of a once great church, and documents what happens when a charming but otherwise abusive leader grabs power, robs the people and leads a church into cult practices and doctrines.
As I struggle with an autoimmune condition called systemic sclerosis, I have begun to understand chronic fatigue and how to cope with its effects.
When did we start believing that Christians are entitled to health, wealth and success? For me, I’ve found instead the wonder of God’s sufficient grace.
As I’ve counseled hundreds of people of the years, I’ve learned that God miraculously heals us when we’re willing to go to and expose to Him those places at the core of our being where wounds, hurts and lies reside.
Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?
Why do those “on point” for the Kingdom of God increasingly seek refuge from the prevailing pop-theology (or dare I say lack of theology) and me-focused brand of Christianity that animates many of our church leaders and cuts believers off from the great historic doctrines and creeds of our faith?
Essentially Reformed or Hyper-Calvinist?
Why is it that those who most strongly affirm God’s sovereignty do so in a way that denies His ability — His right, if He so pleases — to delegate choice to us?
All Posts:
- Crossroad Nugget
- Spectator Church
- Jesus at the Fringes
- Crossroad Nugget
- The Prophets?
- Jon Zens and Frank Viola – An Update
- Roots
- Jon Zens and Frank Viola – A Public Response
- Confronting Evil
- Good Fruit, Bad Fruit, No Fruit
- Maturity
- Life Together
- Crossroad Nugget
- I Confess: I Killed Ekklesia
- The New Legalism
- Crossroad Nugget
- Go and Sow
- Home Grown Organic
- Intentional Ministry
- When Ekklesia Matters
- Crossroad Nugget
- The Predators Among Us
- Sexual Exploitation by Church Leaders – How Do We Respond?
- Sexual Predation by Christian Author Frank Viola
- Crossroad Nugget
- How to Become a Cult (Part 6)
- Crossroad Nugget
- How to Become a Cult (Part 5)
- How to Become a Cult (Part 4)
- Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine
- How to Become a Cult (Part 3)
- How to Become a Cult (Part 2)
- How to Become A Cult (Part 1)
- Voices from Jail
- Is the Holy Spirit a Liar? (Part 3)
- Crossroad Nugget
- Honesty
- Pastoral Counseling
- Crossroad Nugget
- Is the Holy Spirit a Liar? (Part 2)
- Is the Holy Spirit a Liar? (Part 1)
- A Timely Warning by Steve Hill
- Finding Community
- Sexuality and the Church
- Predatory Grooming in Our Churches
- Resurrection Sunday
- Self-Control
- Amazing Grace
- The Fractured Logos
- Being and Doing
- Crossroad Nugget
- Storing Up Riches?
- Crossroad Nugget
- Cover Up?
- Crossroad Nugget
- Church?
- The Cult of Giftedness
- The Sin of Silence
- Exposing Abusive Church Leaders
- Feed the Need
- Gentleness
- Organic Leadership (Part 2)
- Organic Leadership (Part 1)
- Hip New Things
- Beyond Scripture? (Part 3)
- Coming Together
- Faithfulness
- Letting Go
- Chilling Out
- God’s Pleasure
- Religous Liberty and Parental Rights
- Crossroad Memes
- Speaking Truth
- A New Good Read
- Goodness
- God is Good!
- Book Hooked
- Another Good Read
- Some Good Reads…
- The Delusion of Organic Intensity
- Christocentric Buffoonery
- Finding Organic Health
- Crossroad Nugget
- Organic Cults
- Kindness
- Breaking Free
- Tyranny and Murder by Presidential Decree
- The Seven Motivational Gifts
- Authentic Discipleship
- The Grace of Grief
- Single Parents
- Traction
- Ekklesia: Diverse or Cookie-Cutter?
- The Existential Cliff
- Christ Chapel Sexual Abuse: An Update
- Patience
- Ask and Verify
- Organic Idols
- Crossroad Nugget
- When “Intimacy with the Lord” Goes Bad
- Discipleship
- Peace
- Christ is All?
- Though You Slay Me…
- Joy
- A Much Needed Perspective…
- Walk Humbly…
- True Church: The Multi-Gifted Body of Christ
- Crossroad Nugget
- Zero Tolerance
- Ripples
- Love
- Another Good Blog by Miguel Labrador
- Looking in All the Wrong Places…
- I Wanna Mega House Church
- Plenary Authority
- Chillin’ Out Over Leadership
- Slaying Giants
- A Four-Fold Franciscan Blessing
- Deeper Life?
- Les Miserables
- Touching the Heart of God
- A Great New Blog
- Purpose
- Hyper Grace – Part 4
- Hyper Grace – Part 3
- Hyper Grace – Part 2
- Hyper Grace – Part 1
- Words
- Myopic Ekklesia
- Organic Worship
- Theology and Reality
- What About Them Aliens?
- Contentment
- The Cultural Implications of the Great Commission
- Election Postmortem
- Thanksgiving
- Postmodern Idolatry
- A Doobie Brothers’ Gospel
- Generations
- Timing
- Balance
- Beyond Scripture? (Part 2)
- Beyond Scripture? (Part 1)
- The Power of God
- Apples and Pears
- Intercession and Repentance
- Spiritual Authority
- God’s Delight
- Barbeque for Jesus
- The Problem with “All”
- Organic Dead Ends
- Life or Reaction?
- Now, For Something Serious…
- My Shattered Reality
- Hanging On – Part 2
- My Smart-Aleck Response
- I Believe…
- Finding Ekklesia
- A False Love
- Hanging On – Part 1
- God’s Grandeur
- I Confess: I Ate at Chick-fil-A
- Faith
- Another Great Wedding
- I Want More Religion (Part 3)
- Going and Owning – And Knowing the Difference
- Post-modern Rage
- Glorious, Messy Reality
- Finding Freedom From Life’s Hurts
- I Want More Religion (Part 2)
- I Want More Religion (Part 1)
- Ekklesia: A Modest Manifesto
- Eating of the Tree of Life? Watch Out!
- Becoming The Body of Christ
- Directed verses Participatory Church: A Dialog
- Feeling God’s Pleasure
- Beside the Stream
- “Beyond Evangelical” by Frank Viola: A Review
- God in a Box
- Sufficient Grace, Part III
- Fathers and Teachers
- Peeking Through the Cracks
- “Us” and “Them”
- Is There Not a Cause?
- Postmoderns and Old Farts
- The Fierceness of God
- Sufficient Grace, Part II
- Inside Out
- Twitter and Facebook
- Holy Ghost Church in the County Jail
- Outside the Box
- Modern Day Pauls?
- The Great Commission
- Probation’s Ban on Church Attendance
- Getting to Simple
- Celebrating 100 Years of Twisting, Licking and Dunking
- Does Jesus Want You to Vote?
- God’s Pleasure
- Acceptance with Joy
- Becoming Our Past
- Beyond Evangelical? – A Follow Up
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 3)
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 2)
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 1)
- True Leadership
- Jesus at the Fringes
- The Priesthood of All Believers
- We Have Met the Enemy
- A Multilingual Jesus
- Planting Churches
- Room at the Inn
- Redemption
- Ekklesia as Escapism
- I Am Content
- About Justice
- Christ Chapel: Pastoral Sex Abuse
- The Mythology of Tithing
- Old Covenant Church
- Grace, Mercy and Love
- The Road to Grace
- Ordained to Fail
- A Hollow Gospel
- Herman Cain
- The Question of Leadership
- Does Anybody Hear Her?
- Going Organic
- Halloween
- Crossing Jordan
- Silence = Death
- I Saw Satan Fall
- Starve the Beast
- Narcissists with Power
- Wall Street Protests
- Limousine Liberals
- Jesus, the Living Word
- Interview with God
- Tidy Whitey
- Church?
- Hypocrisy and Courage
- Beauty from Ashes
- Mentoring Entrepreneurs
- Christian Counseling Class
- Shameful Silence
- Government Run Amuck
- Being the Church
- The Wolves Among Us
- The Buffers Between Us
- Abusive Church Leaders (Part 4) – Civil and Criminal Law
- Abusive Church Leaders (Part 3) – Mandatory Public Warnings
- Abusive Church Leaders (Part 2) – How Should We React?
- Abusive Church Leaders (Part 1) – My Personal Angst
- A Warrior’s Heart
- The Storm
- Understanding the Seven Motivational Gifts
- A Tale of Two Ministries
- Ekklesia and Diverse Gifts, Part 3: What A Meeting Looks Like
- Ekklesia and Diverse Gifts, Part 2: The Imperative of Participation
- Ekklesia and Diverse Gifts, Part 1: The Motivational Gifts
- The Great Divide: Biblical Absolutes and Relativism
- Developing a Biblical Worldview: Origins – God or Chance?
- Developing a Biblical Worldview: Science or Scientific Materialism?
- The Church in the New Testament: Its Form, Function and Purpose
- My Prayer
- Life!
- Joy and Gratitude
- Helping or Enabling?
- Heaven
- The Gospel vs. Religion
- Scientific Faith
- Authentic Church
- Freedom
- Transparent
- Reboot
- Whole Health
- True Ministry
- Ken Hornby (1945 – 2010)
- Repentance, Forgiveness and the Kingdom of God
- A Very Public Confession
- Good Christian Satire
- Improbable Church
- Lest We Forget
- Worship
- Regeneration
- Pimping the Gospel
- The Lost Art of Dialogue
- Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?
- Participatory Church
- The Gift of Mercy
- Following God’s Presence
- Discovering Our Motivational Gifts
- The Church in D Pod
- The Sunday "God Show" at Your Friendly Podium Church
- The Growing Idolatry of Civil Government
- New Wine Sucks
- The Charismatic Movement is Dead
- When I Fell In Love
- New Wine And Old Skins
- New Covenant Fellowship? Beware!
- Father’s Day
- Confessions of an Excommunicant
- Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
- Post-Release Community
- Fellowship and Light
- Church As Starbucks?
- Leadership Abuses: Private and Public Sins
- Leadership Burnout
- Rick Warren Disavows Support for Prop. 8
- Woundedness
- Conversion
- Sufficient Grace
- Been Hearing God Lately?
- Them Dry Bones
- God is Not Passive
- Rethinking Missions
- Ukraine Trip Report
- God Shows Up
- Fashionable Scorn
- A Dawkins Ditty
- Essentially Reformed or Hyper-Calvinist?
- Pentecost in the Local Jail
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