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2013-08-23T17:15:23-05:00

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Abolishing Silence

Last updated on: August 23, 2013 at 5:15 pm By Andy Gill

I met with a pastor the other day, who’s church is a wealthy, upper middle class, majority white demographic. I met with him in regards to the issue of silence in the face of destruction, racial tension, and injustice. The issue of inaction in light of hunger and poverty… …HAPPENING, IN THERE CHURCHES BACK YARD. I asked him if he thought it to be a problem, living 10 minutes outside of one of the most distraught inner city neighborhoods in the... Read more

2013-08-19T16:55:04-05:00

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With Everything

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 4:55 pm By Andy Gill

It’s crazy to think that it’s been over two years, since I left the pastorate. I’ve been reflecting a lot on this, this summer. You see, I quit more than my job. It was my career. It was what I built my entire life around, what I chose to pour my heart into. Though it didn’t take me long to find that, I had it all wrong. That what we were doing was ineffective. It was a great business model, but not... Read more

2013-08-16T14:28:57-05:00

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12 Gif’s For Youth Pastor’s

Last updated on: August 16, 2013 at 2:28 pm By Andy Gill

As many of you may know, I used to work in youth ministry, way back in the day, as in like a year ago. I still love youth min, am a big advocate of mentoring, and pouring into youth. Either way – I know this isn’t my usual blogpost, but I had insomnia and couldn’t get to sleep for the life of me the other night, I blame the internet, or reddit… but reddit or stumbleupon led me to a... Read more

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2013-08-14T06:00:52-05:00

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Modernized Love: Finding “The One” Online

Last updated on: August 14, 2013 at 6:00 am By Andy Gill

eHarmony — Okcupid — match — Christianmingle — SuperUberDesperate.com-The.List.Goes.On… We’ve all seen the commercials, talked about it with friends, gotten spammed by the Facebook ads, or possibly even joined ourselves. Online dating. Known to some as their “last ditch effort,” others how they met their wife or husband, and currently to many just a convenient way to date, hook up, and/or meet someone nice. (more…) Read more

2013-08-12T06:10:38-05:00

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John Wesley

Last updated on: August 12, 2013 at 6:10 am By Andy Gill

To his Brother Charles WHITEHAVEN, June 27, 1766. DEAR BROTHER, – I think you and I have abundantly too little intercourse with each other. Are we not old acquaintances Have we not known each other for half a century and are we not jointly engaged in such a work as probably no two other men upon earth are Why, then, do we keep at such a distance It is a mere device of Satan. But surely we ought not at... Read more

2013-08-09T20:14:13-05:00

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Giving Up On God

Last updated on: August 9, 2013 at 8:14 pm By Andy Gill

I threw the towel in this summer… I quit. I had had enough of God. It’s not that I didn’t believe God was real, or that I questioned whether or not He existed. In fact I still believed Jesus was God, the only God. It’s not that I stopped believing I just wanted to stop following (more…) Read more

2013-08-02T22:36:16-05:00

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Millennial’s & Church

Last updated on: August 2, 2013 at 10:36 pm By Andy Gill

As a Millennial and someone who has walked away from what we’ve come to know as “church”, Rachel Held Evans post on “Why Millennial’s are Leaving the Church” struck a nerve in me. With 153,000 likes on FB, it seems that it has struck a chord in many others too. It’s really not much of a secret. Millennial’s are leaving the local Church in droves. With 61% of protestants between the ages of 18-30 have dropped out of church, 57%... Read more

2013-07-31T23:54:51-05:00

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C.S. Lewis

Last updated on: July 31, 2013 at 11:54 pm By Andy Gill

“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All... Read more

2013-07-24T16:36:54-05:00

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Moving Past Sexual Orientation

Last updated on: July 24, 2013 at 4:36 pm By Nate Smith

For the longest time, I considered myself a gay celibate Christian. It was uneasy for me to think about dating another man, so I kept myself pure by storing away any emotions I had for other men. Eventually, it was not enough. The hiding away turned into a drug overdose and several other failed suicidal plans. (more…) Read more

2013-07-22T15:19:14-05:00

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Assuring Salvation

Last updated on: July 22, 2013 at 3:19 pm By Andy Gill

I recently finished my first year here in Princeton, after such a long year, I can say the most grueling process of it is not so much the academic rigor, but the deconstruction of our faith. Just to be clear… by deconstruction, I mean the absolute obliteration. Taking everything that we came in knowing without a shadow of a doubt, and tossing it out the window, refuting it with things in which we’ve never considered. Studying the atrocities that make up... Read more

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