http://blog.dmichaelclary.com Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:46:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Everything is Backwards blog has been moved to the Christ the King Church website and now features multiple authors from the church. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds accordingly. Here's the new link. http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2010/01/01/michael-clarys-blog-has-moved/ I recently came across a blog post that quotes Kevin DeYoung's book, Why We Love the Church, with some of the typical complaints leveled against the church. We need to love the church, warts and all, because the church is people. I have tweaked DeYoung's quote a little into a list of ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/09/25/favorite-hypocritical-church-complaints/ I wonder how many young men would choose to enter the ministry if they knew, from the very beginning, that their churches would never exceed a few dozen people, their salary would always be meager, their church budgets would always be tight, and all their labors would be scarcely noticed ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/09/22/in-praise-of-a-boring-ministry/ Divided by Faith, by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, offers three lenses (page 74) through which white evangelicals typically perceive racial issues. Racial problems are caused by prejudiced individuals, resulting in bad relationships and sin. This is the most common feature of white evangelical perception of race. Along with this is ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/09/01/how-white-evangelicals-perceive-racial-issues/ When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself is a new book by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert that argues that there are four primary relationships that have been broken by the fall: our relationship with God, our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with others, ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/08/27/the-four-types-of-poverty/ One of my favorite blogs, Between Two Worlds,  has linked to Randy Alcorn's advice regarding how to take charge of  television viewing in the home. Keep track of how much time you spend watching. Decide in advance how much TV to watch per week. Use a schedule to choose programs for the ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/08/09/tv-in-the-home/ I am in the middle of planting a church, Christ the King Church. We are in the core group development phase, and so this post from Luke Simmons is very helpful. Read the whole thing here, but here's the basic list: 1. Your primary job is to create a culture ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/08/04/10-ways-to-be-a-great-core-group/ Great post on Baptisttwentyone.com about using hip hop and basketball as a means of reaching people. The idea: When we took that drive back in the summer and observed this sub-culture we recognized immediately two predominant things that interested them: basketball and hip hop music. We knew that we had the facilities ... http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/07/25/hip-hop-basketball-urban-ministry/ http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/07/21/tim-keller-on-missional-church/ The NY Times travel magazine has a visitor's perspective on the City. http://blog.dmichaelclary.com/2009/07/17/36-hours-in-cincinnati/