Sunday, 7 March 2010 – 9:49 am
The folks from Leadership Network are into innovation in a big way. And they have something shiny and new. It’s called Monvee.
Remember, Leadership Network is the organization that helped infect the church with the twin blights of Seeker Drivenism and Emergence Christianity. Leadership Network has marketing clout, and knows how to use it. Monvee could [...]
Friday, 26 February 2010 – 9:05 pm
Rick Warren, CEO of Saddleback Church, yesterday played the Pharisee card. He wrote:
‘It drives Pharisees nuts to watch God keep blessing ministries they ridicule & despise.God’s sovereignty is often humorous.’
What’s the Pharisee card? Good question.
Friday, 26 February 2010 – 7:10 pm
Which of these two statements is true?
We are never permitted to sin.
We cannot avoid sinning.
Both of these assertions appear in an excellent article by Todd Wilken (of the Issues, Etc radio programme). Todd writes:
They seem so different. One person lives his life striving for moral perfection. The other person doesn’t try that hard. The first [...]
Monday, 22 February 2010 – 5:17 pm
My friend James kindly posted some thoughts in response to my How to diagnose a sermon article. That article gave a three-step diagnostic (courtesy of the Issues, Etc. radio programme) for reviewing sermons. You can read his comments in full on that article, but his three main points were:
That I seemed to be ‘casting judgment [...]
Thursday, 18 February 2010 – 12:22 am
In times past, many Christians used to educate their children and new converts in the basics of the Christian faith by way of catechisms.
Some still do.
The rest of us might want to give the idea some serious thought, for our times are not so very different from those in which Luther found himself:
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 – 7:52 pm
Many people in the Church seem to be asking ‘What if’ questions. Which started me thinking…
What if…there exists a truth which is absolute?
What if…it is true that there is a God?
What if…this God made the heavens and the earth?
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – 7:52 pm
During his Olivet discourse, Jesus tells His disciples of the coming day of judgement when He shall separate the sheep from the goats:
31When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before [...]
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – 11:49 am
Someone called Bill left a comment on my previous post. Bill asks a good question, namely this:
Is it worthwhile for us to spend significant amounts of time studying the Bible, the newest parts of which were written over 1,900 years ago?
Yes! In every way.
Why do I believe this?
Sunday, 10 January 2010 – 5:52 pm
I’m guessing that your church’s elders/pastors/shepherds/overseers/bishops — Biblically, all the same office — are not required to have children, right?
Given that opening question and the title of this article, you might be expecting me now to try and convince you that they should.
Nope, that’s not it.
I am going to make the argument that elders should [...]
Monday, 4 January 2010 – 4:16 pm
‘Most of the preachers were dynamic, engaging, interesting and even entertaining. Most of their sermons were terrible.’
I’ve just come across this magnificent article (courtesy of Chris Rosebrough from Pirate Christian Radio), written by Todd Wilken of the Issues, Etc. radio program. It clearly shows the difference between a good and bad sermon.
A listener’s guide to [...]
