Christian Faith Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/christian-faith/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:55:18 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christian Faith Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/christian-faith/ 32 32 116298986 The Fierce Mother Heart of God https://mikefrost.net/the-fierce-mother-heart-of-god/ https://mikefrost.net/the-fierce-mother-heart-of-god/#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:55:16 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32747 My three-year-old grandson Jarrah has been unwell recently. Really unwell. He has been seriously ill with what we’ve now discovered was a horrible combination of scarlet fever and pneumonia, leading to a four-hour-long operation to drain infected fluid from his tiny lungs. Even after the surgery, his recovery has been slow. It’s been a tough […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-fierce-mother-heart-of-god/feed/ 6 32747 Evangelism as Storytelling: learning all three stories https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-as-storytelling-learning-all-three-stories/ https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-as-storytelling-learning-all-three-stories/#comments Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:30:37 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32688 This the fourth and final blog post in which I explore the whole process of faith sharing. I’ve been pitching the idea that evangelism is about much more than memorizing and retelling one story. It’s actually about telling three stories. In my first post, I wrote about how we need to get better at telling […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/evangelism-as-storytelling-learning-all-three-stories/feed/ 4 32688 The Way You Tell the Story of God Matters https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-the-story-of-god-matters/ https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-the-story-of-god-matters/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:35:30 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32625 In my previous post, I talked about the need for Christians to learn to tell their own spiritual autobiographies more effectively. I wrote, “Less and less people want to listen to religious lectures or church sermons, but they’ll listen to stories from your spiritual autobiography if you can tell them in a compelling way.” Well, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-the-story-of-god-matters/feed/ 9 32625 The Way You Tell Your Spiritual Autobiography Matters https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-your-spiritual-autobiography-matters/ https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-your-spiritual-autobiography-matters/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:04:33 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32614 Both my parents have passed away. So have my aunts and uncles. Occasionally, a question about my extended family or something that happened when I was a boy pops into my head and I instinctively think I need to ask my mother about that before realising within a split second that she’s no longer here. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-way-you-tell-your-spiritual-autobiography-matters/feed/ 5 32614 Was The Church Growth Movement Racist? https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/ https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2022 22:25:02 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32136 I started out in Christian ministry in the 1980s. It was the era of the Walkman, acid wash jeans, Miami Vice, Chernobyl, and the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. It was also the period that the Church Growth Movement exploded across the world. Today, I have as much trouble explaining the influence […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/was-the-church-growth-movement-racist/feed/ 5 32136 Why Should We Care for Creation if Doomsday is Just Around the Corner? https://mikefrost.net/why-should-we-care-for-creation-if-doomsday-is-just-around-the-corner/ https://mikefrost.net/why-should-we-care-for-creation-if-doomsday-is-just-around-the-corner/#comments Tue, 10 May 2022 23:19:10 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=32055 You’ve heard of the Doomsday Glacier, right? That’s not its official name. It’s called Thwaites Glacier and it’s massive – about the size of Florida actually. Thwaites is held in place, against the western edge of Antarctica, by a floating ice shelf that is lodged against an underwater mountain. While ever that mountain holds the […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/why-should-we-care-for-creation-if-doomsday-is-just-around-the-corner/feed/ 6 32055 If Jesus Ran a Dinner Church, Part II https://mikefrost.net/if-jesus-ran-a-dinner-church-part-ii/ https://mikefrost.net/if-jesus-ran-a-dinner-church-part-ii/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:46:00 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=31322 In my previous post I began looking at all the meals Jesus attended in Luke’s Gospel with a view to distilling some ‘rules’ for dinner church leaders. In that post I looked at five dinners shared by Jesus and came up with the following five lessons: Feel Free to Eat with the “Wrong People” (Luke […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/if-jesus-ran-a-dinner-church-part-ii/feed/ 3 31322 Purists and Pragmatists Unite! https://mikefrost.net/purists-and-pragmatists-unite/ https://mikefrost.net/purists-and-pragmatists-unite/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2021 23:46:33 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=31266 In Stanley Tucci’s cult film, Big Night, two Italian immigrant brothers from Abruzzo own a restaurant called Paradise, situated on the New Jersey Shore in the 1950s. The older brother, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is a superb chef, but he’s a perfectionist who steadfastly resists his customers’ preference for Americanized Italian food. The younger brother, Secondo […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-gospel-according-to-squid-game/feed/ 3 31183 Can We Talk About the Korean Pastor in Squid Game? https://mikefrost.net/can-we-talk-about-the-korean-pastor-in-squid-game/ https://mikefrost.net/can-we-talk-about-the-korean-pastor-in-squid-game/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:44:15 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=31154 Squid Game, a dystopian South Korean drama about poor people playing deadly versions of children’s games, is on track to become Netflix’s most-watched show ever! It was so popular in South Korea it literally broke the Internet there.  And it’s nuts! Over 400 contestants enter the game, set in an elaborate warehouse on an undisclosed […]

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