The Journey cites Dream Awakener. The latter has this list under the heading of “success” in ministry; the former has it under the heading, “what a missional church looks like.”
Not simply how many people come to our church services, but how many people our church serves.
Not simply how many people attend our ministry, but how [...]
I just finished Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower, which I picked up in the Atlanta airport last Monday.
It’s about much more than the voyage of the Mayflower, telling the story of Plymouth Colony (which was more than the village) from its origins in the Nottinghamshire village of Scrooby through King Philip’s War. It tells of the differences [...]
Dom links to the tragic story of 22 year old Laura Hope Smith, who died on September 13 of an abortion performed by Rapin Osathanondh of Hyannis, MA. More.
Via Just Pastors, CT article–Go and Plant Churches of All Peoples: Crusades and personal witnessing are no longer the cutting edge of evangelism.
Crusades haven’t disappeared, and churches still teach personal witness. But today, church planting is the default mode for evangelism. Go to any evangelical denomination, ask them what they are doing to grow, and [...]
In a recent comment, Ryan Bell mentioned the chapter on women in Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart (recently reviewed by Gary Land). I don’t have the new edition, so can only comment on the 1989 original edition (Harper & Row).
Bell had noted their take on [...]
In a Senate hearing, General Peter Pace reiterated his conviction that homosexual acts are immoral, and reminding the senators that the UCMJ prohibits them and adultery. Some jeered. Senator Harkin suggested the UCMJ be changed.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has faced fire from the left and the right for its effort to censor religious books. It is now returning to libraries those books it removed. It hasn’t yet said whether it will give up censorship completely.
Rod Dreher gives us another example of the feminized Christianity that is driving men from many churches.
Rob Bell is having another tour. Charging $13-$17 (plus Ticketmaster service fee) for tickets. One listing adds: “EVERYONE MUST have a ticket INCLUDING infants.”
Did Jesus charge admission …? Did he require tickets? Or security? Or special accommodations? Any of the things that various “evangelists” or “religious leaders” demand today?
Someone posted a YouTube video of Robert Sungenis’ statements about the Jews. More about Sungenis’ latest at Mark Shea’s blog.
This time, a Muslim in Ocala, FL, was tasered for refusing to throw his Quran on the ground.
Israel is cracking down on Christian leaders in the Occupied Territories. Should they leave the OT, whether to go to an Arab country or the US–or even to their office in Jerusalem–they must reapply for a visa to reenter the OT. HCEF reports.
I’ve been away a few days, and I couldn’t post anything about it in advance because it was a surprise. My four brothers and sister and I planned for several months a three day canoe trip for our dad in the mountains of North Carolina. We concluded today, and I’m back at my brother Jim’s [...]
From the UMass Collegian:
Every time a moderately controversial speaker comes to UMass, there seems to be no shortage of student protesters to accompany the event. The Republican Club knows that they cannot sponsor a lecture without some group somewhere on campus finding a relatively creative way to disrupt it. Maybe I haven’t been paying enough [...]
Rep. Peter King of New York was responding to a question about whether the country is on a slippery slope leading to the erosion of civil liberties. He said, along the way, that “There are too many mosques in this country.” His spokespeople said later he was taken out of context, but the video of [...]
The Iraq war is the first American war to rely heavily on the use of mercenaries. Recent Iraqi accusations against Blackwater have highlighted this problem. Where once the US would have protected diplomatic personnel by use of soldiers, now it relies on mercenaries such as those managed by Blackwater. And the US has given them [...]
Nat Hentoff on the forcible silencing of Andrew Meyer.
Under First Amendment law, you can loudly question, disagree with, or heckle a speaker—unless you make it impossible for the speaker to continue. That’s called “the heckler’s veto,” and is not protected by the First Amendment.
In this case, as the insistent Meyer’s own speech was fractured—his microphone [...]
Sgt. Mark England got pulled out of a security line at the Las Vegas airport for having a bottle of Sprite. The TSA agent claimed to be an Army lieutenant. England asked him to show his ID; he refused. England went on to try to get on his plane, but it had left. He came [...]
In Utah, a great-grandmother tackled by a cop and arrested for not watering her lawn. Cop was cleared of any wrongdoing. She’s charged with a misdemeanor. Video.
In another case, cops tased a 56 year old schizophrenic woman in a wheelchair ten times. She died.
Dom has a quiz: Secretary General or Star Wars Character. I got 91%.
Things are improving since Chaplain Yee was forced out, it appears.
The Book of Hebrews is clear that Jesus shared our full humanity, flesh and blood, in all its weakness (2:14ff). It’s an uncomfortable thought for some. The Docetists denied it completely and said he only appeared to be like us, when he really wasn’t. Others, including the Catholic Church, have done all they could to [...]
My wife and I were invited to go, but couldn’t. The big winner of the Texas GOP presidential straw poll was …. Duncan Hunter.
Who?
Then Fred Thompson and Ron Paul.
Timothy George, a Southern Baptist theologian, writes at First Things; Eric Svendsen comments.
George says,
It is time for evangelicals to recover a fully biblical appreciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her role in the history of salvation-and to do so precisely as evangelicals.
I think evangelicals do have a “fully biblical appreciation” of Mary–I wonder if [...]
