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Let’s Discuss Tolerance

Posted by Greg Atkinson | June 28, 2010 .

Well, friends, it’s been 9 months since I made my plea “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” (a blog you must read and comment on if you haven’t already). 73 comments later (as of this writing), I’m still asking the question. The good news is I heard from some very nice gay Christians that answered [...]

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More of Jesus – Less of Me

Posted by Greg Atkinson | April 29, 2010 .

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” – John 3:30 (NASB) Warren Wiersbe in his commentary on John 3 tells the story of a Presbyterian pastor in Melbourne, Australia who introduced J. Hudson Taylor by using many superlatives, especially the word great. Taylor stepped to the pulpit and quietly said, “Dear friends, I am the [...]

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Guest Post by Eric Bryant: The Future is Now-More Minority Babies Than Majority Ones

Posted by Greg Atkinson | April 8, 2010 .

The following is a guest blog from Eric Bryant, Navigator at Mosaic In an article called “More Minority Babies Will Be Born In 2010 Than White Babies, Demographers Predict,” Hope Yen writes: Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the [...]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Posted by Greg Atkinson | September 21, 2009 .

I had to say it at least once. I received some pretty mean email from gay Christians. Just as I have called out Steven Anderson several times for being mean, off-base and just plain wrong, I simply called out the billboards that were posted around Dallas for misrepresenting Scripture. I thought I made it pretty [...]

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Gay Campaign in DFW

Posted by Greg Atkinson | September 16, 2009 .

I go to a lot of Texas Rangers games. I also went to watch the Cowboys practice at their new stadium (which is across the street from Rangers Ballpark). On the interstate drive to the 2 major stadiums there have been put up highly controversial billboards by 5 churches in the DFW area. Below are [...]

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I Saw The Soloist

Posted by Greg Atkinson | April 29, 2009 .

Last Friday, with some friends in Oklahoma City, I saw The Soloist (with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx). Going into the movie, I knew I would love it because I’m a musician and it seemed the movie was about a man’s love of music (which is a big part of it). What I left [...]

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Embracing Diversity

Posted by Greg Atkinson | April 8, 2009 .

My friend, Scott Williams, has been preaching this for a while now, but I really believe we must move past just tolerating other races, to embracing and enjoying them. When I posted my last post, I felt I hit a nerve and started to just leave it up for a while longer to see if/who [...]

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The Most Segregated Day of the Week

Posted by Greg Atkinson | April 5, 2009 .

This is a blog that’s been a long time coming. I think about racial diversity often and last week I was reminded of how white my church is. I went to visit another local church that is also predominately white, but more diverse than my congregation and it jumped out at me (again). I’ve said [...]

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