So, You’re Getting a New Pastor
10.5 Don’ts and Do’s You Won’t Hear at His Installation Service.
5. Don’t call your pastor on his day off, unless it is an emergency. If someone has had a heart attack, if the church is on fire, go ahead and call him. Otherwise, leave him alone for things that can just as easily be handled on another day.
From Kurt Warner’s wife to ‘Christian famous’
“Brenda Warner is no longer Kurt Warner’s wife. Kurt Warner is now Brenda Warner’s husband.”
Brenda was vocally defensive of her husband when he had a bad game, even calling into radio stations to criticize the Rams coaching staff. That zeal and her on-camera postgame kisses for the star quarterback had some fans calling her the Yoko Ono of football.
What the Church Needs is Men Without Fear
The vulnerable God who, in Luke 15, is portrayed with feminine qualities, angers those obsessed with roles and authority
Men…pray this…If this is the man I am to become, may I be given the grace to lift my robe and run, like the prodigal father, with vulnerability and without fear, into the brokenness of the world – even as the onlookers jeer.
The Evangelical Jesus Prayer
It's not perfect, but the Sinner's Prayer is a work of genius.
There may be good reasons to reform or replace the Sinner's Prayer in evangelical "liturgical life." But we have to do better than theological snobbery or spiritual self-righteousness
Russian Authorities demolish Pentecostal Church
Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate calls for respect for religious
The demolition took place on the night of September 6, on alleged court order. But the community had not been given prior notice. Fears that similar cases may affect other denominations.
Evangelicals seek a future for thousands of frozen embryos
“The earliest Christians were distinguished by their care for those society discarded."
Embryo adoption is not a chief issue for many Christians, said Fluhrer, but that may be changing. He has blogged about embryo adoption on Reformation 21, a theology website he edits, and he encourages his church members to consider the option
Avoiding the Great Declension
We have no biblical mandate to limit the Great Commission to evangelists or the gifted.
Are there Calvinists who do not take seriously the Great Commission? Yep, I have met some. And, I know non-Calvinists who are neither personally nor as leaders doing much to fulfill the Great Commission. I have known some Dispensationalists to be passionate about the Great Commission and some more passionate about charts of the end... Continue Reading
Chinese Multiplication
The legacy of Freddie Sun (1936-2012) is Bible schools that train leaders that grow house churches that reach across the country.
A total of 60,000 trained pastors and 90,000 house churches have come out of the 155 Bible institutes and missionary training centers the Suns have either supported or established themselves. Leaders and workers of the ministries and schools are all local Christians, and do not work directly with Westerners. For each of the... Continue Reading
In Defense of Partisanship and Parties
Jesus preached what all Scripture declares, that our primary loyalties are to God
Not all Christians have similar earthly vocations, and not all Christians are called to intense political involvements. But thankfully God has called some, whose labors make our political process function. Although all are called to prayerful concern about the state and to good citizenship, most are not called directly to political activism Liberal... Continue Reading
The Reverend Rants
The NCAA could do with a little two-kingdoms or even sphere-sovereignty theology.
According to Tim Bayly: “As I’ve pointed out many times and will continue to point out, those weddings you attend or officiate that do not include the wife’s vow to obey or submit to her husband are not Biblical weddings.” Father (as in patriarchy), forgive us. Rebellion against Nature. I have read that... Continue Reading