Wycliffe Associates Leaves Bible Translation Alliance over ‘Son of God’ for Muslims
Debate over how to best convey the Trinity continues.
WA cited several reasons for its decision, starting with controversy over the language used to describe Jesus. In some Bible translations, the language of Jesus’ relationship to God the Father (e.g. “Son of God”) is softened to stem confusion and anger from Muslims who mistakenly believe this means that God engaged in sexual relations with... Continue Reading
An Analysis of ‘Celebrate Recovery’ Addictions Program (Part 1)
This review will demonstrate that CR contains two major problems
CR’s stated purpose is “to encourage fellowship and to celebrate God’s healing power in our lives as we work our way along the road to recovery” (21). Further, Warren claims that CR is “more effective in helping people change than anything else I’ve seen or heard of.” Enslaving behaviors are as old, and common... Continue Reading
In Ukraine Towns Ravaged by War, Evangelical Missionaries Find Fertile Ground
As Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists carry on an almost forgotten fight in half-deserted towns, despite a year-old cease-fire, several well-organized evangelical groups are staging a campaign of their own.
One church in the city of Slovyansk north of here, the Good News Church, has opened a school specifically to train missionaries for work in this conflict zone. So far, about 75 people have completed the one-month course and deployed along the 300-mile front. It is a spiritual turning of the tables, of sorts. When... Continue Reading
A Cultural Anthropology for Christian Mission
Working and ministering with the correct cultural map
Cultural anthropology is a heady and academic-sounding phrase. But think of it simply as mapping our cultural moment – tracing the contours of the cultural & social milieu we inhabit. I’ve found that many leaders who are ineffective in mission have an inadequate grasp of cultural anthropology. They’re working with maps that are 30 or... Continue Reading
Old Princeton: Samuel Miller and the Wedding of Learning & Piety
Along with his colleague Archibald Alexander, Miller set the tone for what we know as “Old Princeton”
“Miller was well-loved by his students at Old Princeton and he taught a broader range of subjects than would be considered justifiable today. This was a time before the rise of the narrowly defined specialist. Miller was, like the later Princetonian Benjamin B. Warfield, a true Renaissance man. There was no pitting of the life... Continue Reading
The Ligonier Statement on Christology
Ligonier Ministries announces the release of “The Word Made Flesh: The Ligonier Statement on Christology.”
For the glory of Christ and the edification of His people, the Ligonier Statement on Christology seeks to encapsulate the historic, orthodox, biblical Christology of the Christian church in a form that is simple to confess, useful to help teach the church’s enduring faith, and able to serve as a common confession around which believers... Continue Reading
6 Sermon Myths We Need to Bust
Exposing myths about expectations about sermons; freeing the preacher from faulty, encrusted ideas.
Myth 4. You should judge your message based on how well you did: So I’m a recovering performance addict. In my early years of preaching, I was obsessed with ‘how well I did.’… The early questions were far too much about me and not nearly enough about the content or the audience. As someone once... Continue Reading
Southern Baptists Lose Almost 1,000 Missionaries as IMB Cuts Costs
The total is almost twice as high as the International Mission Board had expected
But with dwindling reserves—the IMB now has enough cash for only two more years at its current rate of spending—expenses needed to be cut. In November, CT examined whether the situation spells the end of the full-time missionary. “The financial realities are clear,” Platt told CT at the time. “[I]n order to get to a... Continue Reading
Pastoral Care Should Punch Us In The Face
Sometimes good pastoral care feels like a punch in the face, both for pastors and for individuals, those whose souls pastors are faithfully trying to save.
The idea that a pastor would sometimes say uncomfortable things and impose discipline is foreign to many congregations today, but that is because for more than a generation we in church leadership have promoted the pastor-as-life-coach model while never talking about the hard road and the narrow gate that leads to salvation. Our parishes need... Continue Reading
Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They’re Just Fine with That
Evangelical Christianity in America is in the midst of a wholesale generational, cultural, and doctrinal transformation. Confronted by a secularizing and diversifying society, including how to interpret the Bible.
Conservative evangelicals have tried to counter such trends with their own publishing efforts — salvos in what a recent Christianity Today editorial called “the New Battle for the Bible.” Two years ago, Kevin DeYoung, a prominent Michigan pastor and co-leader of a national network of theologically conservative churches, published Taking God at His Word:... Continue Reading
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