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G.O.Y. and a Second Fall

There is a new and startling cultural trend. It is the tendency of children to grow older younger; a trend with its own acronym: G.O.Y.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, October 25, 2010
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Breaking Through the Baptism Barrier

Consider our mission: Reaching people for Christ and baptizing them, followed by discipleship. Yet the numbers being reached for Christ by individual churches are often dismal, and the numbers of those who then go public through baptism are even worse. Let’s talk about one slice of this challenge, specifically getting those who have committed their lives to Christ to go public through baptism.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Communion and Coleslaw

Reflecting how those who teach and lead in Christian settings tend to assume that people know a great deal more than they actually do.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, October 18, 2010
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The New News

It's a new day for the news. And with seismic changes afoot.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, October 14, 2010
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How to Fail at Failing

How do you fail at failing? According to a recent article in Time magazine, all you have to do is study the recent collapse of Blockbuster. “Yes, the movie-rental firm was doomed,” Stephen Gandel writes, “But the ending could have been a lot better.”

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, October 11, 2010
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What Often Hangs in the Balance

When we swing the pendulum to one extreme or the other, which is often the most comfortable thing to do with such dynamic tensions, we lose the very thing the dynamic tension is meant to produce.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, October 07, 2010
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Ten Things People Would Tell Us If We'd Listen

A look at the top 10 things we need to open our ears and our hearts to hear.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, October 04, 2010
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Finding Our Voice On Money

A recent report found that now 1 of every 7 Americans lives at or below the poverty level. How should a church respond?

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Ministry: Spiritually Hazardous to Your Soul

Many leaders have fallen into adultery. Why is this happening so frequently?

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, September 27, 2010
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Jack Welch and the Running of the Church

I recently learned a great deal about leading a church from someone who has never led one. Jack Welch, the salty former CEO of GE, sat down for an interview with Bill Hybels, senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, for the 2010 Leadership Summit and served up more truth and wisdom in 30 minutes than most seminary classes give over a semester.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Where the Battle Rages

ABC’s “Modern Family” won the award for outstanding comedy series in last month’s Emmy awards. Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” is No. 1 on iTunes and the accompanying video is No. 1 on YouTube. Or to put it another way, a show mainstreaming a homosexual couple and their adopted child and a song glorifying premarital sex are big hits.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, September 20, 2010
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Ten Missional Prayers for the Church Today

1. That pastors would see other churches in their immediate vicinity as a co-laborer, not as the competition.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Unfortunate Godmongering

In The Grand Design, Hawking maintains that the creation of our universe (and any others) “does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or god.” Stephen Hawking, whom has been called “the most revered scientist since Einstein,” published his new book last week. Titled The Grand Design, it quickly became the No. 1 book on Amazon. Not because it is a particularly well-written book (it isn’t).

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
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Barnes and Noble, USA Today and the Church

“How did Barnes and Noble fall so far so fast?” This was the question asked by James B. Stewart of the Wall Street Journal as the giant bookstore chain put itself up for sale this month.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, September 06, 2010
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Millennials in the Air

According to the Pew Research Center teens and twenty-somethings are “less religiously affiliated” than previous generations. To be specific, one in four Americans age 18-29 do not affiliate with any particular religious group.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Friday, September 03, 2010
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Anything for Fame

What would you do for fame? I know, the “Reality TV” phenomenon should already have answered that for us. But I mean, really. What would you be willing to do? Just fill in the blank: I would be willing to do… For one aspiring actress, the answer was “porn.”

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, August 30, 2010
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Questions on How to Change the World

James Davison Hunter has written a provocative and important new book titled<i> To Change the World</i>. It is already sparking widespread conversation, and deservedly so. Hunter makes bold assessments that are contrary to conventional views, and does so with great intelligence and force, while maintaining a winsome and compelling demeanor.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Monday, August 23, 2010
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Delivering a First Class Welcome

In anticipation of the 2012 Olympic games, to be held in London, Britons have been given a crash course on how not to offend foreigners when they make their visit titled “Delivering a First Class Welcome.” Take a look at the top ten etiquette tips from VisitBritain.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Saturday, August 21, 2010
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Strippers Going To War

Sometimes I think I should start a new file: really dumb culture wars that do more harm to Christianity than good.

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Saturday, August 14, 2010
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Who Wants to Live with Someone for Eighty Years

In a recent interview, actress Cameron Diaz made it quite clear that she is content to be – and intent on being – a serial dater. In an interview with the UK’s Stylist Magazine, she says, “I think the big misconception in our society is that we’re supposed to meet the one when we’re 18, and we’re supposed to get married to them and love them for the rest of our lives. Bulls**t.”

  • Dr. James Emery White
  • Saturday, July 31, 2010
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