Dangers of an Individualistic Spirituality

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Dangers of an Individualistic Spirituality

By billnieporte on Friday, November 18th, 2011 | No Comments

From Bill Coffin, in Credo We must guard against being too individualistic and elitist in our understanding of spirituality. Somw Cfristians talk endlessly about the importance of one’s interior life and how to develop it more fully. forgetting that Christ is born to bring hope and joy also to whole communities of people – the […]

What is Faith?

By billnieporte on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Bill Coffin, on FAITH – from Credo “What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. Faith is recognizing that what makes God is infinate mercy, not infinate control; not power, but love unending. Faith is recognizing that if at Christmas Jesus became like us, it was so that we might become […]

William Sloan Coffin – on love

By billnieporte on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 | No Comments

I first met Bill Coffin while a student in seminary. In fact, I to introduce him at a campus event sponsored by “The Ethics Luncheon” – if I can find the tape and covert it from VCR to digital format, I will post it here. Don’t know who Coffin is? Do a Google Search. You’ll […]

Challenging Days

By billnieporte on Sunday, November 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Challenges require faith, hope, commitment, and tremendous levels of courageous faith. If these qualities are brought to the table, challenges can be met and overcome. That’s where we are in the Western church right now, and Patterson Avenue Baptist is NO EXCEPTION. Here are the sobering facts: In 2010 – only 16.5% of our nation […]

Political Hate Speech

By billnieporte on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 | 11 Comments

I am just saying… One of the things that the world teaches us is that when we have an enemy we must demonize them. We make them a monolithic evil force. I had a friend illustrate this in some comments about President Obama. “He is intentionally ruining the country.” We’ve heard a great deal of […]

I’m Just Saying…I Cannot Meet Your Spiritual Need

By billnieporte on Monday, September 12th, 2011 | No Comments

“I’m just sayin…” Every pastor has heard it. I imagine that most every church leader (teacher, musician, deacon, elder, etc.) has also heard it. “Your church is NOT meeting my spiritual needs!” OR maybe you have heard this… “Your church IS meeting my spiritual needs!” If we hear the second statement, we are so excited. […]

We always are talking AT one another

By billnieporte on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Psychologist Jean Piaget says that when two very young children talk to each other, they do so in monologue. Put another way, they each respond to the fact that the other child has spoken, but not to what the other child has actually said. Could it be that we have never actually grown up? Take […]

What does it mean when I say I am a pacifist?

By billnieporte on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 | 1 Comment

What does it mean to be a pacifist? As a Christian, it means that I trust in God. “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.” Psalm 20:7 I believe that Pacifism is a reasonable and rational response to the basic doctrines of the […]

Shocking Love by Baxter Kruger

By billnieporte on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 | 3 Comments

Shocking Love By C. Baxter Kruger Sometimes the simplest thoughts cascade into revolutions. What if it was not the wrath of God that Jesus suffered on the cross, but the wrath of the human race? What if it was our bitterness and scorn and judgment and hostility—not the Father’s or the Holy Spirit’s—that was poured […]

Risk

By billnieporte on Friday, July 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Many years ago I because interest in how the stock market worked. It became a self-study project – an attempt on my part to learn everything I could about how the stock market works. I studied all the terms and concepts that you hear a financial analysts use when they appear on the nightly news. […]

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