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We Have Met the Enemy

January 17, 2012 by Jim Wright 2 Comments

Sigh… Double sigh…

Culture, Post-Modernity, Worldview

Ekklesia as Escapism

December 19, 2011 by Jim Wright 10 Comments

Too often, we say it’s all about Jesus, when in reality we create Jesus in our own image – shaped by our hurts from the wrongs we have suffered – and use Him to justify our safely-ensconced retreat into self-constructed cocoons.

Church, Culture, Great Commission, Missions, Organic Church

Herman Cain

November 9, 2011 by Jim Wright 6 Comments

As Christians, we must speak truth to power, but with integrity and without applying double standards!

America, Culture, Politics, Sex Abuse, Society

Halloween

October 24, 2011 by Jim Wright 0 Comments

A quick commentary on Halloween . . .

Culture, Humor

Reboot

March 15, 2010 by Jim Wright 3 Comments

God seems to be laying a foundation for yet another of His periodic, history-changing interventions in the affairs of man. Over the last two thousand years there have been many such paradigm shifts, and it’s naive to think that our current, settled status quo will somehow be exempt from the unsettling but progressive advance of [...]

Church, Community, Culture, Fellowship, Gifts, Institutional Church, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, New Wine, Pastors, Transcendent

The Challenge of Intercession

August 27, 2009 by Jim Wright 4 Comments

The intercessory prayer movement of the last several years is at a crucial junction. Driven by angst over our nation’s declining commitment to basic principles and the growing malaise of our increasingly dysfunctional churches, many Christians are crying out for God’s intervention. What I’ve rarely seen, however, is a matching embrace of effective, transformational repentance [...]

Bible, Christians, Church, Culture, Intercession, Leadership, Pastors, Pietism, Politics, Prayer, Repentance

Rethinking Missions

February 20, 2009 by Jim Wright 21 Comments

If evangelical Christians have the equivalent of a “sacred cow,” it must be foreign missions. At the risk of martyrdom, I hereby declare that it’s time to slay that cow (or at least herd it into a different pasture!).

America, Christian, Church, Community, Culture, Great Commission, Kingdom of God, Missions

Jim Wright

Teacher, pilot, foe of tyrants, world traveler, passionate, attorney, entrepreneur, friend of the dispossessed, Christian, thinker, reluctant counselor, occasional mentor, brother in the Lord, adequate cook, pretty good host and so-so bass fisherman.

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Participatory Church September 17, 2009
Ordained to Fail November 16, 2011
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Dealing With Church Leadership Abuse May 20, 2009
Sufficient Grace March 30, 2009
Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 2: How Should We React? May 28, 2011
Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 4: Civil and Criminal Law May 30, 2011

Jesus at the Fringes February 4, 2012
The Priesthood of All Believers January 23, 2012
We Have Met the Enemy January 17, 2012
A Multilingual Jesus January 16, 2012
Planting Churches January 3, 2012
Room at the Inn December 24, 2011
Redemption December 21, 2011
Ekklesia as Escapism December 19, 2011
I Am Content December 15, 2011
About Justice December 8, 2011