by Hugh Welchel | Dec 21, 2017 | Calling, Culture, Formation, Reviews, Stories, Vocation |
This post in a guest post from Hugh Welchel, a friend of Flourish at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the words, of George Bailey, “Merry Christmas Everybody!” I don’t know what happens at your...
by Markus Watson | Sep 7, 2017 | Calling, Church, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Gospel, Leadership, Mission, Theology |
My first exposure to “dualism” was in my favorite movie of all time—Star Wars! You know what I’m talking about. The dualism of Star Wars is the dualism of light and dark, good and evil. Dualism is a fancy word that basically means, “There are two things and the two...
by Markus Watson | Aug 30, 2017 | Big Story, Culture, Gospel, Reviews, Theology |
[With the release of Alien: Covenant on video, Flourish San Diego would like to share this film review by our own Markus Watson. This article originally appeared HERE. Visual Parables is a faith-based film review journal with reviews for thousands of films and...
by Markus Watson | Jul 20, 2017 | Creativity, Culture, Gospel, Reviews |
This article originally appeared HERE. Visual Parables is a faith-based film review journal with reviews for thousands of films and documentaries. Warning: This review contains spoilers. ______________________________ But God demonstrates his own love for us in...
by Markus Watson | Jun 22, 2017 | Church, Culture, Gospel, Mission |
There was a time when you could plant and grow a church simply by informing people about the new church—and you were guaranteed to have a growing church! I wrote about that here. That was the case when Western culture was considered to be a Christian culture, also...
by Markus Watson | Jun 15, 2017 | Church, Culture, Gospel, Mission |
We live at the tail end of an era in Western civilization known as “Christendom.” I talked about “Post-Christendom” a few weeks ago in a few other blog posts (you can read them here, here, and here). Since Post-Christendom is by definition what comes after...
