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16 posts tagged culture
“Teach me to know the number of my days.” It is impossible to not love this. More please.
David Ramirez asks the question everyone wants to ask, but is afraid to.
Whose dog is this? Be sure and wait for the surprise ending.
This is a true slice of the northwest and highlights some of the unique cultural challenges facing the church here.
It’s funny because its true. #loveyourcity
Interesting and insightful infographic from Good on who American’s most admire.
What do you think this says about America?
Fascinating, and sobering, study on the rise of single mothers over the last 40 years. Important reading for pastors in a culture where 1 in 4 kids belong to a single-mother home. Click the image to download the entire study.
“The great message of the gospel is intended to go to the ends of the earth. To accomplish that, the people of God must be found in all cultures, eating and drinking, enjoying music and art and making tools with those who do not yet know the gospel.”
“Heavenly Father, may those of this city know you as their perfect Father, by faith in Christ. Please.” Pray for Seattle.
Excerpt from The Stranger’s cover story this month: “What would it have been like to grow up with a dad? Would I still have been so shitty at sports? Would I have still been so effeminate? Would I have still been called a faggot every day in middle school? Would I have known how to be a man?”
New York times chart presenting divorce rates, teenage pregnancies and pornographic site subscriptions by Democrat and Republican states. Interesting.
“Eight Glasses a Day? Shattering the Water Myth” article by National Geographic. Great pic and great news (coffee counts!).
“Christians need to abandon talk about “redeeming the culture,” “advancing the kingdom,” and “changing the world.” Such talk carries too much weight, implying conquest and domination. If there is a possibility for human flourishing in our world, it does not begin when we win the culture wars but when God’s word of love becomes flesh in us, reaching every sphere of social life. When faithful presence existed in church history, it manifested itself in the creation of hospitals and the flourishing of art, the best scholarship, the most profound and world-changing kind of service and care - again, not only for the household of faith but for everyone. Faithful presence isn’t new; its just something we need to recover.”
