So... there's a lot of public patting on the back in the world of popular Christianity... you get all your buds together, and whenever any of you does anything, everyone…
andrewarndtSeptember 20, 2011
"Be angry and sin not" says Paul (Eph 4:26), "angry" being a command. What a strange thing for Paul to say. Perhaps it violates our sensibilities about what it means…
andrewarndtAugust 16, 2011
I know that I am veering into dangerous territory spiritually when I am more worried about what is "next" than I am with what is now right in front of…
andrewarndtAugust 3, 2011
Last night I had the good privilege of (merely) participating in one of our worship services at Bloom. Normally, when I'm at our gatherings, I'm uber-involved. And that's okay, since…
andrewarndtAugust 1, 2011
Today marks the end of an era. The 20's are officially over. It was a good decade. I got married (actually, that happened at 19, but we'll throw it in…
andrewarndtJuly 26, 2011
Last night Mandi, the kids, and I drove back into Denver after spending a long weekend in Tulsa. Despite the outrageously high temperatures and stifling humidity (it was near 110…
andrewarndtJuly 7, 2011
Fatherhood is a massively important theme of the Scriptures. Many of the biblical stories themselves take place within the complex dynamic of the father-child relationship: Abraham and Isaac, Eli and…
andrewarndtJune 20, 2011
As we've been working our way through Ephesians this summer at Bloom, I found this little snippet out of chapter 4 pretty compelling: 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then,…
andrewarndtJune 14, 2011
"Post-evangelical", "post-liberal", "post-modern", "post-colonial", "post-Christendom", "emergING", "emergENT", "third way", "organic", "centrist"... the world of North American Christianity is a landscape littered with words like these like shells scattered across the…
andrewarndtJune 9, 2011
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