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The Gift of Mercy

August 4, 2009 by Jim Wright 7 Comments

Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts.

Abuse, Emergent, Gifts, Grace, Healing, Joy, Leadership, Mercy

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in Virginia, but I’m stuck with a lingering cold and sore throat. That gives me a good excuse to skip church and my ministry commitments later this afternoon in the local jail. So what to do? I just let my ADD dog out and he’s happily occupied digging a [...]

Burnout, Christians, Church, Elder, Emergent, Leadership, Mentor, Pastor

Emergents and Old Farts

March 7, 2009 by Jim Wright 4 Comments

We don’t need to frustrate generational “emergents” into joining churches with borderline heretical “emergent” theology. Rather, our existing churches need to let them emerge into ministry and leadership, embrace their energy and life, and allow them to shake things up while mentoring them in what remains standing. Only then can we burst our old rigid [...]

Emergent, Kingdom of God

Is There Not a Cause?

February 3, 2009 by Jim Wright 5 Comments

• By drifting into self-absorbed, post-modern subjectivity and relativism, the American Church is ignoring the liberating power of transcendent and objective truth, goodness and beauty for all of life and culture. • By neglecting the historic doctrines of the faith to pursue “relevance” and the latest emergent fads of the day, the American Church is [...]

Absolutes, Church, Emergent, Eschatology, Gnostic Dualism, Post-Modernity, Relativism, Transcendent

Jim Wright

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