Things worth fighting for
How churches handle change is often more important than the change itself
Even a cursory glance at the literature regarding change reveals that 5 percent of any group will fall into the category of “never adopters.” Jesus does not call us to make everyone happy. He calls us to be faithful to the gospel.
Closer than Ever to the Breath of God
Why Protestants are especially fascinated with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Until that discovery, the oldest complete manuscript we have of the Hebrew Bible dates from over a thousand years after Christ's birth—the Codex Leningrad, about A.D. 1000. That is 1,600 years after the time when the book was first written (sometime in the 7th century B.C.).
Connecting the Dots: the NAE, the PCA, and BioLogos
"The Presbyterian Church in America is part of the NAE because it is consistent with our doctrine of the Church" --L. Roy Taylor
In addition to the fact that the best known pastor in the PCA, Dr. Tim Keller, is hosting these BioLogos workshops and is calling for pastors to promote the BioLogos view, the Stated Clerk of the PCA, Dr. L. Roy Taylor is the Chairman of the Board of the NAE. That means that my denomination, the PCA, is not only a member of the NAE, but has someone in the executive leadership of the organization. That makes their decisions, our decisions
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
One-way Dialogue?
Will the NAE try to sell evangelicals on evolution?
Templeton did not specify the simplistic and polarizing views: Seeing chapter 2 of Genesis as real history rather than fable? Seeing man as fallen and in need of redemption? But the clear goal of AAAS and Templeton is to bolster the “motivation, imagination, and capacity” of pastors who want to influence their congregations to accept... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Hybrid
Co-ops are quietly changing the homeschooling landscape
Homeschool co-ops provide an attractive option for homeschooling parents: By partnering to create classes and activities that supplement their children's at-home curriculum, they combine the flexibility and privacy of traditional home education with the structure and socialization found in typical school settings
The Church’s Antipathy to Popular Music
Part 2 of the Christian church's history in relation to popular entertainment
Augustine criticizes the theater and public spectacles out of a personal confessional frame of mind since he participated in such debaucheries as a young man in Carthage. In his Confessions he asks why is it that in the theater a man desires to behold sorrows and tragedy which, if he actually experiences them, would make his miserable? Do we love the grief of others in order to be able to show mercy to them?
National Religious Broadcasters to Propose Solution to New Media Censorship
NRB cites Apple's iTunes App Store, Google and Facebook for 'contributing to the suppression of free speech
Two years ago, NRB launched the John Milton Project to address the threat of viewpoint censorship and to present potential solutions. On September 12, 2012, NRB will unveil its Free Speech Charter for the Internet, a unique, first-of-its-kind proposal to the free speech/free enterprise dilemma.
Changing the City with the Gospel Takes a Movement
Praying for your city is a biblical directive. Coming together in prayer is something a wide variety of believers can do
In short, we cannot produce a gospel movement without the providential work of the Holy Spirit. A movement is an ecosystem that is empowered and blessed by God's Spirit
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