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Babylon Series: Part 12 Getting to the Gospel
BY: Denis Haack
Unlike “evangelistic encounters” which require us to insert the Big Questions into the conversation, discussing a movie allows the film to raise the Big Questions. Since most people love to talk about movies, the setting provides a safe context for conversation.
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Babylon Series: Part 13 Caring Enough to Probe
BY: Denis Haack
Imagine you are sitting with some friends—perhaps at work or a coffee shop—and one says he’d like some advice. “Ashley and I have been going out for almost a year,” Justin says. “We really hit it off, love the same music, and enjoy hanging out. So, we’re thinking of moving in together. One of us is always staying at the other’s apartment anyway, so we could save time and a pile of money if we consolidated living arrangements..."
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Babylon Series: Part 14 Responding to shifting sand
BY: Denis Haack
Christians assume that we can keep using the same arguments to convince each generation of the truth of Christianity. But that isn’t true. If we respond to new questions with old arguments, we make Christianity appear irrelevant.
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Babylon Series: Part 1 On Being Offended in a Pagan World
BY: Denis Haack
Indeed, there is much to offend Christians in postmodern culture, and much offense is taken. So much so, in fact, that the issue is worth examining a bit more closely.
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Babylon Series: Part 2 Living in Exile: A Model for Faithfulness
BY: Denis Haack
The model we have adopted (consciously or unconsciously) for how to live faithfully in a fallen world can make a big difference in how we view and respond to culture and life.
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Babylon Series: Part 3 A Letter to Exiles: Living in Babylon
BY: Denis Haack
If we find ourselves, like the Old Testament people of God in Babylon, living in exile. Then it would be wise to reflect on what Jeremiah’s letter might teach us.
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Babylon Series: Part 4 Legalism in a Decaying Culture
BY: Denis Haack
On the most basic level, legalism is appealing today for the same reason it has always been appealing: as fallen human beings we feel we deserve whatever grace comes our way.
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Babylon Series: Part 5 Where do We Draw the Line?
BY: Denis Haack
The notion of having to “draw the line somewhere” refers to the need to maintain limits in our interactions with unbelievers in a society that increasingly tolerates sin and incivility.
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Babylon Series: Part 6 Singing in Babylon: Can There be Joy in Exile?
BY: Denis Haack
“How can we sing the songs of the Lord,” they asked, “while in a foreign land?” How is it possible to be joyous in exile?
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Babylon Series: Part 7 Finding the True, Noble, and Pure in Babylon
BY: Denis Haack
Given this reality, how can we live in a post-Christian culture without being contaminated by the fallenness around us?
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It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives, they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.
- The Dalai Lama
Law giving without grace will damage others by causing them either to despair of hope or to pretend holiness.
- Bryan Chapell
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It's interesting how the notion of being in a story seems deeply human, even at a time when many doubt that a Story exists that speaks to all of humanity, history and reality. Still, this is the theme that animates films like Stranger Than Fiction and The Book of Eli. The possibility that The Story of Creation, Fall, Redemption & Restoration in the Scriptures fulfills our deepest yearnings is the hope that causes us to maintain this web site. We hope you will join the conversation.
Denis & Margie
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