What’s Happening?
Here are some activities and resources being offered through Elmbrook Church here in Brookfield, Wisconsin in the weeks to come. Take a look and see what might be of interest to you. Many great resources!
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Why, why, why, oh God?
And I asked “why, why, why, oh God? Why did it have to be only my sister who was killed on the patrol that day?” -20-year-old female American soldier speaking at her twin sister’s funeral. It is the mystery that always seems to move further from our reach the more we reach out for an
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God Puts Things Together
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When we relate the pieces of life back to God as source, and believe that the pieces are there for him and his purposes, we can see the sense in it all. Regarding the human race, broken into so
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Putting the Pieces Back Together
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] All the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty together again. -Nursery Rhyme Life would be easier, wouldn’t it, if all its pieces held together. If they always made sense. If nothing ever broke off. If
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The Light Shining in the Darkness
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Against the gray clouds and darkness across the human race stands one distinctive life-a brilliant, even blinding light. Jesus the Messiah, called many things, is also known uniquely as “him who had no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Because the
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Happy Birthday, Brook Network
The online hub for The Brook Network celebrates 1 year today! We thought this would be a good time to look back at the last year and do a quick recap of our top 10 posts. So, without further ado, the top 10 posts of thebrooknetwork.org in the first year:
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Lessons from Argentina
The definition of what we are trying to do with this network we’re calling “The Brook Network” is “sharing ideas, pursuing wisdom.” There are so many great ideas in the world today regarding Christian life and Christian leadership. And, more than that, there is wisdom from God available to us–if we care to seek it.
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Bin Laden, Treachery, and Shame
With the dramatic announcement of the demise of Osama bin Laden tonight I find myself recalling the somber Sunday that followed 9/11, people stunned and broken-hearted filing into the sanctuary to worship. Profound silence, many tears during communion. The day after the attack my eyes fell on Psalm 25: “No one whose hope is in
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How Many Ways Are There to God?
If you’re in the Milwaukee area, here’s a presentation I’ll be doing at Elmbrook Church…
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Making Introductions
[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Leadership tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] As we begin a weekly study and discussion of “spiritual leadership today” for leaders from all
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Harvestfest Cape Town 2010
Elmbrook Church will be one of 638 sites in 91 countries to carry the video feeds of Cape Town 2010, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. At this event, the widest gathering of evangelical leaders in history, 4,000 men and women from 200 different countries will exchange views, study, and discuss the state of
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Church plans to burn Qur’an
Evangelical leaders blasted a Gainesville, Florida, church’s plans to burn Qur’ans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. [read]
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What is a “movement”?
Leaders can aim at building institutions or building movements. Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, says: “a movement is marked by an attractive, clear, unifying vision for the future together with a strong set of values or beliefs.” He goes on to identify four characteristics of a true movement. “First, the vision
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Who speaks for evangelicals?
A brief article by John Ortberg puts an important issue on the table regarding identity–and the comments it is generating are telling.
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Why would someone want to be a neo-pagan?
Christian apologetics requires us to not only understand other religions and spiritualities, but to understand their attraction. So what about neo-paganism in all its various forms? (There are about 300,000 people in the U.S. and about a million worldwide who describe themselves as “Pagans,” “Wiccans,” or “Druids,” although there are other groups that generally ascribe
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