Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week How (Not) to Inspire a Shared Vision. Like millions of other Americans, I tuned in to hear President Obama’s second inaugural address on Monday.  The President is rightly admired for his strong oratory skills and ability to use communication as an effective leadership skill.  That’s why I was so…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week A Good Day to Proclaim Bad News. In this short video, Strange explains that Paul doesn’t actually present the gospel in this sermon. Instead, he focuses on the bad news, God’s judgment, as the necessary context for understanding the good news of the gospel. And he thinks we can…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Forced to Wait: An Advent Reflection. During advent, we’re reminded of all those centuries when God’s people awaited the fulfillment of God’s promises, the years of uncertainty, the time of doubt. This side of Christmas, it’s easy to think that this season is all about arrival, the birth of Jesus. And…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Pastor As Priest. As a Baptist, I especially enjoyed learning about how the reformers railed against the inappropriate practices of the Catholic Church, including problems related to priesthood. As one who holds firmly to the tenet of “priesthood of all believers” it might sound odd that I would promote…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Godly Change Requires More Than a Lane Change. Since we’ve already established that I’m a fallen and broken human being, I’ll probably wrestle for a while with a desire to keep going the wrong way just so I won’t have to admit that I was wrong. Or, maybe I’ll…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Inflatable People: The Holy Spirit and Creation. What happened to the Spirit? Well, it’s just one chapter, maybe he’ll come up again in a bit. Then you finish chapters two, three, four, five, and you’re starting to get a little frustrated. You thought this Spirit was important. Yet you’ve…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week A New Take on an Old Story. [T]his is an incredibly important story, one we should tell ourselves, our children, and our neighbors every year. I’m not going to reject, or even question, anything in this story. We should rejoice in the good news that the Messiah has come.…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Pastor as Prophet. What does a prophet do?  To put it in basic terms, a prophet hears from God and shares the message on behalf of God.  But what kinds of messages does a prophet share?  Again, to put it in very simple terms, a prophet shares God’s intent:…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Gollum Saves the Day. The king has returned. Big deal. The story isn’t even close to being over. Indeed, there’s an even larger army of orcs just sitting over in Mordor, waiting to be unleashed on the humans. And they haven’t even faced the evil overlord, Sauron, who is…
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Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week Are You Intimidated or Intimidating? “I don’t understand it. She said I was intimidating. I so wanted to minister to the women in my church. But after teaching the Bible study for 2 years, they didn’t ask me to teach it the next year. I don’t know why. All…
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