The “Accident”
“Mom? Are you ok?” I asked. “No” was her reply. That really scared me because I had never heard my mother say things were not OK.
That day was a dark day in my life and still haunts me from time to time. I truly believe that God was in control on that day, and the He is still sovereign. What seemed like a tragic event so long ago, amidst the smell of burning rubber, broken glass, and a crumpled car, was God’s sovereign plan being unfolded in my life.
Parting with Treasure Easier Said Than Done
Churchgoers give far less than they think (or tell)
In one indication of the gap between perception and reality, 10 percent of the respondents to the generosity survey reported tithing 10 percent of their income to charity although their records showed they gave $200 or less. The self-deception appears to be limiting giving.
Our Children Still Need Mentors in an Age of Monsters
With whom will we trust our children? Here's how one coach changed my life, and why the young people of our churches still need mentors.
John was always above reproach, and never had to be told to put healthy boundaries in place. He was for me all he needed to be – an excellent basketball coach. My parents had every reason to trust him, and because they did, the trajectory of my life was changed – for the better –... Continue Reading
Miracle in Possum Trot
What happened in a small town when one couple adopted four children and others followed their example.
Donna was grateful for the sacrificial love her mom had shown while taking care of so many kids with so little means. It was this sacrificial love that Donna remembered when God called her to do something similar. “Think about all those children out there who do not have what you had in a mother,”... Continue Reading
The Hymns That Haunt Us
A newborn atheist just can't get the church's music out of her head.
Clement believed that music could build (or destroy) character. The pagans of his day sang at banquets and at domestic dinner tables. In the years before "church music" was invented, music had a place in the Christian home—as a way to welcome guests, to unite husband and wife in the same melodies, and to improve the character of the whole household.
Young Bucks
How Giving to the Church is Changing, or, N.T. Wright Has His Hand in the Plate
Millennials are King David’s anti-type---they don’t own a house and can’t quite see why they should help God to have one, either.
Former “Christian Century” Editor James Wall and Palestinian Terror
The Palestinians who were sent to jail…saw themselves as resisting an occupying army
The Israeli mother of one of the 15 murdered victims who died in the infamous Jerusalem Sbarro 2001 restaurant bombing is denouncing former longtime Christian Century editor James Wall for defending her daughter’s Palestinian murderer.
First-Person: Who Really Was the First U.S. Missionary?
A freed slave should supplant Adoniram Judson as the first Protestant missionary from America.
Not only was George Liele the first Protestant missionary from America, but his departure for Jamaica in 1782 actually puts him ahead of the widely recognized progenitor of the modern missions era, the British Baptist, William Carey. Earlier this year Jeremy Webber at Christianity Today asked: Was the first U.S. missionary black, not... Continue Reading
Where Do ‘Liberal’ Bible Scholars Come From?
Is reading the Bible a cure for fundamentalism? That's how many so-called liberal Bible scholars got their start.
Biblical scholarship is an academic discipline, taught and studied at universities, colleges and divinity schools all around the world. So it should be no surprise that biblical scholars run in all shapes, sizes, colors and denominations. What would surprise many people, though, is that a very large number of us love Jesus and the church,... Continue Reading
Monastery where Christian saint was martyred is uncovered on Scottish island, Eigg
Donnan and 50 monks were killed in 617 by Norsemen, their deaths being recorded in the Irish Annals
Donnan died in 617AD and monasteries of that time had circular or sub-circular walls which separate the world of God on the inside from the world outside. “We found remains of a sub-circular enclosure and remains of seventh century activity, which would fit in with Donnan’s time.
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