Take This Bread - Sara Miles on SBE

Erik July 25th, 2008

Sara Miles was a passionate atheist, but early one morning curiosity got the best of her and she walked into the open doors of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in San Francisco. She was offered a piece of bread and some wine, she took it and walked out of the church a Christian.

Use one of the options below to hear Sara and Steve talk about her radical conversion and what happened next.

Sara is a journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressi … (Read More)

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I've been remembering!

Steve Brown July 1st, 2008

Do you know what I did this morning?

I've been remembering.

I got an email from Wanda Lu Paxton who lives in Brevard, North Carolina, and works at WSQL, a radio station there. She said she was putting together a brief history of that station which had previously been WPNF ("Wonderful Pisgah National Forest"). In 2007, the station was bought by a number of local business folks, renamed WSQL and moved to downtown Brevard on Main Street.

At any rate, she had been doing some checking … (Read More)

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For All Frustrated Perfectionists!

Steve Brown June 3rd, 2008

I read the Bible this morning and found something I can hardly wait to share with you, that is, if you're a frustrated perfectionist (all perfectionists are frustrated), care what people think about you, are driven by getting it right and stay awake at night worried that you did it wrong.

That's me, by the way.

You too. I'm just honest about it.

At any rate, I was reading Jesus' parable of the sower in Matthew 13. You will remember that Jesus talks about a sower who goes and … (Read More)

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The Shack - William Paul Young on SBE

Erik May 16th, 2008

The author of The Shack, William Paul Young, joins us on Steve Brown Etc. this week to talk about living in a jacked-up world full of pain and loss and…full of a God who loves us. Use one of the options below to listen.

Stories are pouring in about the healing impact of The Shack and, as I write this, the book is #8 on Amazon. Not bad for a book that Young wrote as a gift to his 6 children and was never intended to be published. Join us as we talk about some of the controversy surroundi … (Read More)

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Etcetera - 05.13.08 - Dis-Orientation

Erik May 14th, 2008

Join me and Mr. Wood on this edition of Etcetera as we talk about changing sexual orientation. No…not us! Not that there's anything wrong with that. Use one of the options below to listen.

Jumping off of the discussion regarding homosexuals and evangelicals with Michael Spencer on SBE, we pulled out the list of all the other behaviors of non-inheritors of the kingdom of God. You won't find this as a surprise, but some of my junk is on that list. So we talk about that.

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Jesus Watches Your Church Ad

Michael Spencer May 5th, 2008

Ever have a mystical experience? Mystical experiences aren’t exactly my strong point, but the Spirit has managed to get a few past my defenses over the years.

Once I was staying in the hospital with my mom. Mom was 82 and had just had a serious stroke. I stayed in the room with her for a week because she was really a mess, and as far as family went, I was it.

It was in the early hours of the morning, and mom had been awake, fighting the nurses, talking out of her head and refusing to sleep or … (Read More)

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