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Month: February 2013

February 28, 2013February 28, 2013stephenmcalpine

The New American Simpsons Version

When one of the blokes who became a Christian among us last year told me yesterday that the Jehovah’s Witnesses had been coming around recently – and that he might invite them in for a chat next time –   my heart did skip a beat or three.  “Oh, no,” I thought, “It’s all gonna […]

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February 21, 2013stephenmcalpine

Vegetable Love: Part Two

In light of my previous post the issue can be summed up thus: How does the missional church maintain an evangelistic thrust that is not swamped by a commitment to long-term, low key relationship in which there appears to be no interest in the gospel over an extended period of time? In other words, can […]

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February 18, 2013February 19, 2013stephenmcalpine

Vegetable Love: Part One

Had we but world enough and time This coyness lady, were no crime.. Andrew Marvell’s  poem To His Coy Mistress –  written to the lady of his life who “won’t give it up” – is a great celebration/indictment of the impatient man who sees death getting closer and sex getting further away. “[T]ime’s winged chariot” is […]

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February 13, 2013February 13, 2013stephenmcalpine

Are We Living (Just Enough) for the City?

Guest blogger, Deborah Karajas from Providence Church Perth, shares some thoughts about doing good to the city.  It’s a great insight. I have a dilemma. Today I gave some money to a homeless person. I didn’t want to tell you that, because I don’t wish to blow my own trumpet and, quite frankly, I’d rather […]

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February 11, 2013February 11, 2013stephenmcalpine

Church Butchers

Sheep are there to be shorn and slaughtered About a decade ago the denomination I was involved with brought in a US church consultant who was seemingly having some success with revitalising a struggling US denomination similar, on the surface at least, in culture to ours. In reflection, the reasons the powers that be decided […]

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