Political

A collection of 32 posts

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Election Day Encouragement

Because we trust in Christ, we can stand in calm, faithful presence in the public square today and in the coming days.

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Pastor's Briefing: The Abortion Debate

In a post-Dobbs world, a pastoral response is one that gives a full explanation to and takes full ownership of our beliefs - beliefs that transcend political allegiances and come with deep conviction forged from deep experience and deep thought, which encourage a posture of faithful presence.

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Pastor's Briefing: The Eschatological Presidential Debate

Christians are called to listen differently. We are called to evaluate the policy positions proposed by each candidate through the Biblical criteria of Christ’s eschatological initiative articulated in his statement, “Behold, I am Making All Things New.”

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Presence Weekly 7/22/2024 - “Honoring the President”

For Christians of either party, the one response of which we should be most cautious of is sinful and dishonoring rhetoric.

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Pastor's Briefing: The Presidential Debate

Christians are called to listen differently. We are called to evaluate the policy positions proposed by each candidate through the Biblical criteria of Christ’s eschatological initiative articulated in his statement, “Behold, I am Making All Things New.”

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Presence Weekly 6/03/2024

Today, we live in an age where we look to science and politicians to answer and remove so much of our uncertainty because removing uncertainty increases our feeling of security.

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Presence Weekly 5/20/2024

In some ways, Mark’s story of Jesus, like that of Kipling’s Dravot, ends with the death of the man who would be king. But, the humiliation of their death is the only thing the two stories have in common.

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The Faithful Presence Podcast: "Interpreting Our World Through The Five Lenses of Culture," with Dr. Justin Bailey

Presence Weekly 3/4/2024

The Devo: The Mission of Work (aka Worship) 3 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord

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Presence [Volume 1, Issue 2]

A Journal for Servants and Leaders in the Public Square Welcome to the second issue of Presence! First, a word. For the past year, our President and his wife have been dealing with the life-threatening health concern of a close family member. This has produced long periods of distraction from

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Presence Weekly 9/18/2023

The Devo: Making the Most of Your Weekend In Eph 4:11–16, Paul writes,   11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all

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The Faithful Presence Podcast "Cultural Roundtable with Jeremy Knapp"

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Podcast: "The Politics of the Gospel"

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Mission and the Four Questions of Faithful Presence

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Presence Weekly - 5/30/23

The national debt is extremely high. Yours is an even bigger problem!

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MASTER CLASS: Tim Keller on Reaching the Secular Man (circa 1998)

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"The Ministry of Politics" with Dr. Bob Burns and Dr. Donald Guthrie

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Real Election Results

6 Now at the feast, he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do

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From Insecurity to In Security

The midterms are less than 60 days away! What will happen? That’s a question that often precedes an answer which brings insecurity. Will the House flip back to Republican control or stay in Democratic control? Will the Senate flip to Republican control? Will it flip to Democratic control? Will

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BONUS Episode: Power Differentials, Faithful Presence, and Living Differently

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Book Review: A Better Ambition

If you’re looking for an excellent new book about the kind of ambition that drives someone to seek a life in politics, complete with all the backroom dealmaking, conflicts with the press, and ultimate rise to the head of the party, then consider this an answer to your prayer.

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Goals, Gospel, and Government Work

Have you ever had a wildly improbable goal? Martha Beck gained national attention in 2002 when she appeared on the Oprah show to promote an article on the concept of Wildly Improbable Goals “W.I.G.s”. That’s why I was not aware of it until much later. In

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BONUS Episode: Faith in the Public Sphere with Vince Bacote

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The Dobbs Picture

Just over two weeks ago, in the 6-3 Dobbs decision, the Court stated the U.S. Constitution did not confer a right to abortion and overruled both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). Their decision did not outlaw abortion; it simply sent the issue to the

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BONUS: 1 Peter 2:9-12, A Sermon on Faithful Presence