I cringe to think back on the sermons I preached and the blog posts I wrote in my twenties and thirties. (I’m sure I’ll feel the same about my forties, twenty years from now.) I spent my time as a preacher and blogger going after the easy wins and cheap applause. I would criticize and…
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Are You the Same on Social Media as You are in “Real Life”?
It’s a popular but deceptive question: “Are you the same on social media as you are in ‘real life’?” It almost seems rhetorical. It feels as though the answer is “If you’re not, you should be!” As I’ve thought more about that question, I’ve come to see (aside from the question being flawed from the…
#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media in the New Heaven and New Earth
This is the final post in a multipart series—#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media to the Glory of God. For background on the approach taken, see the first post, “Social Media to the Glory of God.” Already and Not Yet Life today is a mixture of the already and the not yet. Christ is already reigning—and he is…
#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media in the Church
This is the sixth post in a multipart series—#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media to the Glory of God. For background on the approach taken, see the first post, “Social Media to the Glory of God.” Human Purpose in the Church For our purpose, we can look back to the description of Jesus we found in Philippians 2….
#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media in the Life of Jesus (Part 2)
This post is the fifth in a multipart series—#TweetLikeJesus: Social Media to the Glory of God. For background on the approach taken, see the first post — “Social Media to the Glory of God.” Communication in the Life of Jesus In the previous post, we saw that Jesus is the perfect image of God. He perfectly…