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Babylon Series: Part 11 Beginning the Conversation
BY: Denis Haack
How do we introduce the gospel and still keep it a conversation - versus a sales pitch?
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Babylon Series: Part 12 Getting to the Gospel
BY: Denis Haack
Unlike “evangelistic encounters” which require us to insert the Big Questions into the conversation, discussing a movie allows the film to raise the Big Questions. Since most people love to talk about movies, the setting provides a safe context for conversation.
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Babylon Series: Part 13 Caring Enough to Probe
BY: Denis Haack
Imagine you are sitting with some friends—perhaps at work or a coffee shop—and one says he’d like some advice. “Ashley and I have been going out for almost a year,” Justin says. “We really hit it off, love the same music, and enjoy hanging out. So, we’re thinking of moving in together. One of us is always staying at the other’s apartment anyway, so we could save time and a pile of money if we consolidated living arrangements..."
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Babylon Series: Part 14 Responding to shifting sand
BY: Denis Haack
Christians assume that we can keep using the same arguments to convince each generation of the truth of Christianity. But that isn’t true. If we respond to new questions with old arguments, we make Christianity appear irrelevant.
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Babylon Series: Part 2 Living in Exile: A Model for Faithfulness
BY: Denis Haack
The model we have adopted (consciously or unconsciously) for how to live faithfully in a fallen world can make a big difference in how we view and respond to culture and life.
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Babylon Series: Part 3 A Letter to Exiles: Living in Babylon
BY: Denis Haack
If we find ourselves, like the Old Testament people of God in Babylon, living in exile. Then it would be wise to reflect on what Jeremiah’s letter might teach us.
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Babylon Series: Part 4 Legalism in a Decaying Culture
BY: Denis Haack
On the most basic level, legalism is appealing today for the same reason it has always been appealing: as fallen human beings we feel we deserve whatever grace comes our way.
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Babylon Series: Part 5 Where do We Draw the Line?
BY: Denis Haack
The notion of having to “draw the line somewhere” refers to the need to maintain limits in our interactions with unbelievers in a society that increasingly tolerates sin and incivility.
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Babylon Series: Part 6 Singing in Babylon: Can There be Joy in Exile?
BY: Denis Haack
“How can we sing the songs of the Lord,” they asked, “while in a foreign land?” How is it possible to be joyous in exile?
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Babylon Series: Part 7 Finding the True, Noble, and Pure in Babylon
BY: Denis Haack
Given this reality, how can we live in a post-Christian culture without being contaminated by the fallenness around us?
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
- Erma Bombeck
Last summer I went to Connecticut to visit the Fitzgeralds and smuggled three live ducks over Eastern Airlines for their children, but I have been inactive criminally since then.
- Flannery O'Connor
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
- Thomas Aquinas
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On my desk is a little vase of flowers cut from our yard, a little reminder of the beauty that is all around if we only have eyes to see. I've needed that reminder after reading the latest news of the horrific oil spill in the Gulf. Such glory in this world, such brokenness. Such hope, such deep need for redemption. These are the realities of life and death we seek to explore on this web site. Thank you for visiting.
Denis & Margie
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