A New Kind of Christianity – Brian McLaren on SBE
Erik Guzman March 31 2010 - No Comment
If you know anything about Brian McLaren, you won’t be surprised to hear that his new book has many Christians’ undies in a bunch. Is McLaren a heretic or herald of God’s movement to get the church to do it Jesus’ way? Join Brian on Steve Brown Etc. and decide for yourself as we talk about his latest controversial work, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith.
(The reincarnation of Gandhi stops by as well.)
Time Magazine says Brian McLaren is one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals. He’s a social activist, former pastor and author. Brian’s previous books include A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Everything Must Change. Visit BrianMcLaren.net for all things Brian McLaren.
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Restoring the Soul – Michael Cusick on SBE
Erik Guzman February 10 2010 - No Comment
If you’re a pastor and you struggle with sexual addiction, you know how hard it can be to come clean about your problems to those closest to you. You may want to get help, but you have a good chance of losing your livelihood if anyone ever found out. It’s a dark trap in which many Christian leaders find themselves.
If you can relate, take a break from looking at porn on the Internet and join us for Steve Brown Etc. with Michael Cusick.
For years, Michael led a hidden life that consisted of prostitutes, pornography, alcohol abuse, massage parlors and adultery. Today Michael has been clean for 15 years and he’s the founder and president of Restoring the Soul, an organization that exists to provide life changing soul care to Christian leaders. He’s also featured in the documentary Somebody’s Daughter: A Journey to Freedom from Pornography.
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Emotionally Healthy Spirituality – Pete Scazzero on SBE
Erik Guzman September 22 2009 - 3 Comments
From the outside, it looked like Pastor Pete Scazzero was on top of the world. The church he planted in New York was filling up with people (many of them new Christians) and the atmosphere was electric.
However, on the inside, Pete was secretly dying. Then he hit the wall.
Don’t miss Pete Scazzero on Steve Brown Etc. as he talks about moving past manic religious activity to emotionally healthy spirituality.
Pete Scazzero is the senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York and author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and The Emotionally Healthy Church. Visit EmotionallyHealthy.org for more info and helpful resources.
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Jim & Casper Go to Church – Jim Henderson on SBE
Erik Guzman March 25 2009 - No Comment
Jim Henderson bought an atheist’s soul on eBay, then he took him to church. That’s show-worthy enough, but Jim wasn’t trying to convert this guy. He wanted to see church through the eyes of an outsider. Jim found the experience so enlightening, he started going through atheists like a bag of chips.
Join us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. as we talk with Jim Henderson about what he learned when he hired atheist, Matt Casper, to visit 10 churches with him and report on his reaction.
Jim Henderson is the co-founder and executive director of Off The Map and author of Jim and Casper Go to Church: Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians. Go to ThePracticingChurch.com to find out what Jim is doing with all this fancy atheist knowledge he’s getting.
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The Great Emergence – Phyllis Tickle on SBE
Erik Guzman March 10 2009 - No Comment
Borrowing an image from Bishop Mark Dyer, Phyllis Tickle often says that every 500 years, the Church cleans out its attic and has a giant rummage sale. Join Phyllis Tickle on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss the current purging, what’s on the table and the treasures we’re rediscovering in the process.
The implications for your ministry are staggering.
Phyllis Tickle is the founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly and the author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why.
Go to TheGreatEmergence.com for a video discussion of the book and a free study guide.
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Leading with a Limp – Dan Allender
Erik Guzman February 25 2009 - 1 Comment
As a leader in the Church, you simply have to listen to this interview with Dan Allender. Here’s something he said to whet your appetite…
“What [posturing] leads to is this dual life. Who I am before you, I know I am not behind your back. And so the discrepancy, that sense of contradiction, I think is an acid that eventually literally tears away at the very fabric of faith for most leaders.”
And get this…
“I think if you were to peer into many leader’s hearts, they remember believing. They remember the first love. But in one sense, the posturing has so eroded something of their own capacity to be real and to be alive…that they’ve become somewhat robotic and certainly distant. And that kind of leadership never is a person that you would want to deeply follow.”
Dan Allender is the President of Mars Hill Graduate School and Professor of Counseling. He’s the author of a bunch of books, among them, The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
Join Steve as he talks with Allender about his book, Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths.
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