Maybe I Went Too Far

Steve Brown September 4th, 2007

Okay, okay!

I was irritated and maybe I went too far in my comments about leaving God out of the political, social and relational stuff…I do that sometimes.

The nature of a blog like this is that I can be irritated about something and write on it before I've thought about it very deeply. The good thing about books and a lot of other stuff I write is that it goes through the editorial filter of people who don't get as irritated as quickly as I do and who are far saner than I am … (Read More)

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Do I Know God?

Erik August 24th, 2007

Is God knowable? If He is, how does somebody know that they know God?

Tullian Tchividjian joins us this week to chew on those questions. Tullian is the once prodigal grandson of Billy Graham. He must have been pretty bad because his late grandmother Ruth Graham wrote a book about him called Prodigals and Those Who Love Them.

Now Tullian is all grown up and he's a pastor and author of Do I Know God?. Check out these endorsements…

"Apart from the Bible, this may be the most imp … (Read More)

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Leave God Out of It!

Steve Brown August 17th, 2007

Pascal once said that people "do evil completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious conviction."

The most obvious case is the radical Muslims who kill anybody who disagrees with them and do it in the name of God.

Someone told me the other day that the difference between a worship leader and a terrorist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist. He, of course, is wrong because both a worship leader and a terrorist do what they do in the name of God. And when you put Go … (Read More)

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I'm Out of Here!

Steve Brown July 6th, 2007

I'm going away on vacation!

Well, that's not exactly true. I'm going to spend a week teaching the missionaries of my denomination at our conference center (Ridge Haven) in the mountains of North Carolina. Then my wife and I are going to spend most of a week with our children, their husbands and our grandchildren at Dollywood in Tennessee…

…and then a week recovering from the first two weeks!

During that week, I'm not going to pray, go to church or read the Bible … (Read More)

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TRCOR

Erik June 20th, 2007

From the creators of The Rubik's Cube comes a brand new confounding puzzle…it's The Rubik's Cube of Religion.

On this week's Etcetera, we finally take a stand on the essentials of the faith and make the definitive call on who's in and who's out. If you believe that, or even if you put the least bit of stock in what we monkeys believe, you need help.

We also talk new IM shorthand, "Christian" dating, and eventually get around to promoting Steve Brown … (Read More)

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Give Up

Erik June 18th, 2007

The desire for perfection is a two-edged sword. On one hand, the very presence of the desire assures one of being alive in Christ. On the other hand, perfectionism can turn you into a bound-up, burned-out fake.

On this edition of the Scandalous Freedom Podcast, Steve Brown lays out the case for quitting. If you don't give up on getting better, the impossible demands of perfectionism will rob you of the joy and freedom required to approach perfection.

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