Posted in Articles, Bible, Church on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
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. [...]
Posted in Articles, Blogs, Church, News on November 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I admit, I’m coming to this conversation late. In reflecting on a book by Bill Hybels, I remembered that there were some relevant recent news and looked them up. The gist of the admission by Willow Creek is that the multi-million dollar seeker-sensitive approach has failed to make disciples for Christ and it [...]
Posted in Church, Lists on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s something you may not have known or suspected. When I grew up my family went to a conservative Christian church and I subsequently went to a Swedish Baptist college in Minnesota. I recently went back to my home town and was sickened by what became of the family church over the last 20 years. [...]
Posted in Church, Quotes on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Already about one-half of all Protestants change denominations at least once, and they probably don’t feel the need to add or subtract a single doctrine in the process. Even within the denominations, I suspect, lifestyle rather than religion is the organizing principle of most lives. They are not “rooted in the gospel”; they [...]
Posted in Blogs, Church, Quotes on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
While looking around for some quotes and responses to the Emerging Church, I came across a good post at Jesus Creed entitled “What is the Emerging Church? Protest.” Here are its main points:
First, it protests too much tom-fakery in traditional churches. This generation of Christians is not as capable or interested in putting up fronts [...]
Posted in Church on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
“How do you define ‘Evangelical,’ in a way that distinguishes Evangelicals from other believing Christians? And has this definition changed over the last several decades?”
“Has Evangelicalism matured since the 1950s, and if so in what ways?”
“Has it lost anything in the process of maturing (if it did)?”
“Are there any fundamental differences within the Evangelical movement [...]
Posted in Church on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Reformation21 posted this article by Carl Trueman which sounds exactly like something I can expect to hear (and have heard) from C.J. Mahaney. But he does tie in some cultural observations and provides a decent conclusion:
Yet baldness is nonetheless a great gift from the Lord, in that it imposes a certain dignity on the [...]
Posted in Church, Video on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Blogs, Church on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Are our labels and traditional designations losing their meanings? Michael Patton explains in a recent post:
If Joel Osteen, R.C. Sproul, Benny Hinn, Chuck Swindoll, Oral Roberts, J.P. Moreland, T.D. Jakes, Jimmy Carter, Billy Graham, Brian Mclaren, Pat Robertson, and John Piper all distinguish themselves as evangelicals, then we must admit that the disignation both means [...]
Posted in Audio, Church, Files, Websites on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Recently I’ve taken a renewed interest in websites, as I may be entrusted with the management and design of a ministry website. Furthermore, I’ve considered the idea of podcasting, since subscriptions to sermon podcasts have been a great spiritual benefit. But where do we go for guidance and resources?
Fortunately I’ve been recently recommended [...]
