Undeniably, we live in the era of celebrity preachers. To the extent that human beings LOVE to put other human beings on a pedestal, this has always been the case. …
andrewarndtMay 23, 2010
Matthew's gospel opens innocently enough: "1A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: 2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father…
andrewarndtMay 17, 2010
Paul claimed that the core Christian virtue - Love - is, among other things, "patient" (1 Co 13:4). Embedded as it is in the middle of the poetic and perhaps…
andrewarndtMay 4, 2010
I've been in the church long enough to know that pastors are not always all that they're cracked up to be; that the divergence between what you see publicly and…
andrewarndtApril 21, 2010
This spring and summer at Bloom we'll be working through a series on the Sermon on the Mount. I absolutely can't wait to get started. I think the Sermon on…
andrewarndtApril 11, 2010
It is a matter of fairly firm historical record that Jesus... Was born in the 1st century to a rather inconspicuous family in Nazareth of Galilee Launched a public ministry…
andrewarndtMarch 29, 2010
Okay, so I actually haven't preached that many series' in my life, so perhaps the standard of measurement is off ... but this series went on for A WHILE! 9…
andrewarndtMarch 21, 2010
As a born-and-raised evangelical, my tradition taught me to be a bit suspicious of "them Catholics" out there. Spooky people, you know? Believing in weird things like Mary-worship and cannibalism,…
andrewarndtMarch 14, 2010
Tomorrow I'll be preaching the 8th (8th!) message in our series on spiritual practices at Bloom called "Spiritual Architecture" ... (I wonder if people are going to start getting bored…
andrewarndtMarch 13, 2010
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