The website The Holy Observer has articles of Christian satire, and one in particular caught my attention. I’ll include most of the article below, and I encourage you to check out the site if you’re interested
HOUSTON – The employment of James Kim as youth pastor at Mt. Olive Baptist church here has resulted in [...]
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Asian American Pastors
Posted in Articles on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Piper on Concept Creation
Posted in Articles, Quotes on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the unfortunate consequences of the promotion of contextualization is the de-emphasis of our responsibility to help others to understand new concepts. As a professor explains humorously, we aren’t going to preach to Eskimos about the “Seal” of God who takes away the sins of the world, but about the “Lamb” and then proceed [...]
Why Still Single?
Posted in Articles, Thoughts on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the course of a wonderful conversation tonight, I began to wonder why it is that some people are single, at any age. There are reasons that they may give: still a student, establishing career, etc. Then there are the reasons that most others offer for them: too picky, haven’t met the right one, etc. [...]
Sin Cities
Posted in Articles on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Al Mohler blogs about a recent Forbes magazine article offering the top ten cities representing each of the seven deadly sins. The results, for your amusement and conversation fodder:
Here are the sins and the top cities in each sinful category:
Most Lustful: Denver ranked first, joined by San Antonio, Portland, Seattle, salt Lake City, Boise, Washington, [...]
Thoughts on Discipline
Posted in Articles, Thoughts on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been listening to the podcast for Crossroads while cleaning my room and exercising these days, and how fitting that the message for today was on discipline. It sparked some thoughts, many of which are not new, but something that I clearly need to understand better since I haven’t yet incorporated them permanently into my [...]
The Entertainment-Driven Church
Posted in Articles, Bible, Church on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the Parchment and Pen Blog, Michael Patton has an excellent post on his experiences visiting a few churches. It is well worth the read, and illustrates a few things that I’ve been trying to communicate to my Sunday School class about the proper interpretation of Scripture, and also provides thoughts on church priorities. [...]
On Democracy (and Socialism)
Posted in Articles, Politics on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Thirsty Theologian just put up a new post tonight on the topic of Christians and socialism which is very interesting. For what he says and how he defines socialism, I think he is right on. Here is the conclusion:
Now, I just know there is someone reading this and nodding, “You tell ’em, man!” Thanks [...]
Quarter-Life Crisis
Posted in Articles, Blogs, Books, Culture on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While not an authoritative post on the subject, I was pleased to see the topic brought up in a recent Boundless article, which I’ve cleaned up a little to present below. Hopefully it should stimulate some thought. All too often we stop at labeling or categorizing instead of digging deeper to find find the root [...]
Hats off to Young-Life
Posted in Articles, Ministry on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From what I can tell, this is a very good thing:
“We affirm Young Life’s style is relational and incarnational,” the statement reads. “This means that our proclamation of the gospel will most always proceed from the context of relationships with adolescents.” The statement welcomes creativity in methodology but bolds the line, “However, while our methodology [...]
5 Points of Criticism
Posted in Articles, Lists on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re going to criticize, and I prefer the words “admonish” or “exhort”, then 9Marks offers the following points to follow:
1. Directly, not indirectly. If you’re anything like me, you might have a temptation to imply something, to presume something, to do anything to avoid a direct confrontation. Be very careful, however, before adopting this [...]
