Tag Archives: new frontier

Jesus plus nothing

Posted on May 9, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) In C.S. Lewis’ famous Screwtape Letters, Wormwood is a junior demon who is being instructed by his senior, Uncle Screwtape, as to how he can steer a believer off course … Continue reading →

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Pioneering in the 21st Century

Posted on May 4, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Just what is pioneering in the 21st Century? Hasn’t everything already been mapped and charted? What frontiers are left? 

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Going back and forth

Posted on April 11, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) It seems like of late there has been a spate of movie/video projects chronicling the Jesus Movement of the early 1970s. The Jesus Music (the movie) came out last year, … Continue reading →

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Help us be the voice of Christ to this century’s generation: A Survey

Posted on August 6, 2021 by jwfisch

Late in 2015, a Catch community data analyst was putting in some volunteer hours when noting approximately 12,000 millennials were landing on our dinosaur of a website monthly. “Why are you here?” we inquired. There was a multiple of responses, … Continue reading →

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Signs not shrines

Posted on July 28, 2021 by jwfisch

John, one of our regular readers, went through an experience adjusting to the deaths of his parents while living in the same house he grew up in that they occupied for 45 years. He spoke of similar feelings that I … Continue reading →

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OK in Christ

Posted on March 25, 2021 by jwfisch

As if we needed one more reason to be divided. On top of huge chasms in politics, conservative and liberal philosophies, racial divides, and the ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots, we now have a generational divide fueled … Continue reading →

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‘Close Encounters’ getting closer

Posted on July 7, 2020 by jwfisch

One of our readers sent me this Catch this morning originally posted March 1, 2019. I’m not sure why he did, but I’m glad he did, especially as we are more aggressively building our own church now. So thank you, … Continue reading →

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Re-branding Christianity

Posted on May 15, 2019 by jwfisch

I’M FOR THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE — a popular bumper sticker that speaks a volume of truth. Every once in a while, it becomes necessary to refocus our sight. Who are we as Christians; what do we stand … Continue reading →

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True followers in every generation

Posted on March 6, 2019 by jwfisch

Okay, it was bound to happen. We heard from somebody between boomers and millennials. Actually, two somebodies. Two Gen Xers have written me feeling left out. This is good. That means there are at least two of you out there … Continue reading →

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The First Church of Boomers and Millennials

Posted on March 5, 2019 by jwfisch

I had lunch yesterday with a pastor, an attorney who is an influential church leader, and a Christian college professor with a PhD from Oxford. They all love Jesus, but none of them are having a satisfactory church experience. The … Continue reading →

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