Tag: Ron Sider

• Making a World of Difference

  “What will it take to change the world – to really change it for the better?” Ron Sider asks that question in the Introduction to his book, Living Like Jesus.  And his question resonates with me. It has for a long time – long before I heard Sider aksing it.  I grow bored and frustrated…

  Dennis Griffith

  June 27, 2008

  Books, Church, Missional, Spiritual Formation

  Books, Changing the World, Characteristics of Genuine Christians, Christianity, Christianity & Culture, Church, Church & Culture, Church & World, Great Commission, Living Like Jesus, Making a Difference, Missional, Ron Sider, Spiritual Formation

• Following Jesus in Different Directions?

  I’ve been pondering the following assertion from Ron Sider‘s Living Like Jesus: “Still, the modern church prefers to accept only half of Jesus. They willingly accept him either as model or as mediator – but not both.  Some urge us to follow his example of love and social concern, but they forget about the cross. Others…

  Dennis Griffith

  June 22, 2008

  Gospel, Graffiti, Missional, Spiritual Formation

  Christ, Christinaity, Discipleship, Jesus, Liberal Conservative Debate, Liberal/Conservative Christianity, Living Like Jesus, Ron Sider, Spiritual Formation

• Studies in 1 John: Compassion Among Brothers

     In my study through 1 John I had to pause and go back over one verse this week.    Having preached from 1 John 3:11-18 last week, and John’s assertion that Christians are to be characterized by love for one another if Christ is in actuality alive in them,  I am struck by v. 17:…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 19, 2008

  Bible, Books, Missional

  Amy Sherman, Books, Books about Compassion, Books about Holistic Ministry, Charity, Christianity, compassion, George Grant, Holistic Ministry, Jonathan Edwards, Marvin Olasky, mercy, Mercy Ministry, Recommended Books, Ron Sider, Tim Keller