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Tony delivered this sermon at Lifework Leadership in Orlando, FL on February 9, 2012
Compassion: Hope for the City and the People from Red Letter Christians on Vimeo. Download Outline | Download Video Joke about sociologist, when a gorgeous woman walks into the room, looks at everybody else. Always begin class on social change with “Why did Jesus come?” Jesus came to declare that the Kingdom of God is [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Howard University Rankin Chapel in Washington, DC on November 20, 2011
Download Outline | Download Audio Sociologists noting shift in younger Christians. Older Christians scared because it’s faithful to scripture. Richard Rohr, Franciscan monk, “Protestants get saved, study Paul’s epistles, have a firm grasp of justification by faith. Catholics focus on gospels after they’re saved.” Not contradictory, but different emphases between epistles and gospels. Paul talks [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Mary Hardin-Baylor University in Belton, TX on September 14, 2011
Download Outline | Download Audio 1. Richard Rohr said that Protestants get steeped in the epistles then get around to the gospels. It’s a different emphasis when you read Jesus in the eyes of Paul and Paul through the eyes of Jesus and seeing 2. Story about when Tony’s son took a group of inner-city [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Chautauqua Institution in Chatauqua, NY on July 10, 2011
Download Outline | Download Audio Do you remember me joke. Religion is dying in America. Attendance in church is going down, particularly mainline churches, for good reasons and bad reason. Mainline churches are in decline because Mainline Christians aren’t likely to share their faith. Mainline churches are also in decline because they are standing up [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Grove City College in Grove City, PA on February 14, 2011
Download Outline | Download Audio Talking about Mission Year. St. Francis of Assisi, the poor and the suffering are sacramental. Baptist heaven joke. Bread stays bread and the wine turns into grape juice joke. Mother Teresa felt like Jesus was staring back at her through the eyes of the dying. The Fundamentals of the Christian [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Christian Venues Association in Collaroy, Australia on August 2, 2009
Christian Venues Association Leader’s Forum 2009- Keynote 1 from Red Letter Christians on Vimeo. Download Outline | Download Video Transitions occurring in the world today Young people today are more spiritual and less religious Shift away from Calvinism to Wesleyan thought Story—Sociology of Religion and Margo Story—post-modernism does not exist Modernism is moral relativity Lots [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at Ocean Grove Auditorium in Ocean Grove, NJ on July 19, 2009
Download Outline | Download Audio When Jesus came into the world, he came declaring the kingdom of God Kingdom of God is transformed people living in a transformed world Evidences of spiritual renewal all over the world John Wesley—Methodism was last time such a renewal took place Wesley was not a very vibrantly alive preacher [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at The Ocean Park Temple for the Ocean Park Association in Ocean Park, ME on July 12, 2009
Download Outline | Download Audio More spirituality, less religion in America Religion has prevented every progressive movement the world has ever seen Story—Proposition 8—what did Evangelicals win? Young people are conservative about their values, but they don’t like a church who is not loving Story—UPenn Sociology of Religion—Margo Young people want to experience God Moving [...]
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Tony delivered this sermon at National Youth Workers Convention in Charlotte, NC on December 1, 2006
Download Outline | Download Audio Name “Red-Letter Christians” given by a secular Jewish country and western disc jockey An Evangelical believes in the Apostle’s Creed, believe that the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit, Spirit needs to invade your being Difference between Protestants and Catholics: Protestants read the Gospels through a grid of Pauline [...]
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