By Chaplain Mike Must Reading: The Most Risky Profession, by Mark Galli at CT. I do not have time to do a full post on this at the moment, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this article since I read it last evening. I encourage you to go read it tonight, comeContinue reading “IM Recommended Reading: Mark Galli on Today’s Vulnerable Pastors”
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Take that, Milton
Blame Jeff, not me. Okay, blame me as well for all the quoting of Dante I do on here, which is probably what put the idea into his head. So now you are going to be afflicted with what is most definitely not a reasoned work of considered literary criticism, so beware and be warned.Continue reading “Take that, Milton”
Lose the Lists, Please, I’m Getting Discouraged
photo © 2008 Amanda Slater | more info (via: Wylio)By Chaplain Mike Let me start with the bad news. There is no “answer” for discouragement. You would never know that from listening to some preachers. I did a web search on “discouragement,” and here is an example of some of the typical results I found:Continue reading “Lose the Lists, Please, I’m Getting Discouraged”
From Fullness to Emptiness
By Chaplain Mike Ordinary Time Bible Study The Book of Ruth (4) The Book of Ruth was written to show how an unlikely woman, who proved herself to be a woman of wisdom and love, became a “founding mother” in Israel. In the tradition of Israel’s honored ancestors, God providentially worked for her and throughContinue reading “From Fullness to Emptiness”
A Musical Primer on the Ancient-Future Path
By Chaplain Mike If I were to design a course to teach about spiritual formation from an ancient-future perspective, my soundtrack would be the new album by John Michael Talbot, called, Worship and Bow Down. Remarkably, this is Talbot’s 53rd (!) record, but it is different than most of his previous releases. In light ofContinue reading “A Musical Primer on the Ancient-Future Path”
Joe the Plumber Gives a Brief Post-Mortem
photo © 2007 Rasmus Olsen | more info (via: Wylio)Presented by Chaplain Mike First of all, let me say how thankful I am for all of you in our Internet Monk community. You have patiently hung with us as we’ve gone through an absurd number of site problems over the past couple of weeks. IContinue reading “Joe the Plumber Gives a Brief Post-Mortem”
Worship: Robert Webber’s Proposals
By Chaplain Mike As we’ve been talking about worship music over the past few weeks, I’ve been encouraged to go back and review some of the sources that first caught my attention and made the study and practice of Christian worship such a major part of my thinking and ministry. Most evangelicals who have learnedContinue reading “Worship: Robert Webber’s Proposals”
Sigh…
What a week. We were hacked yet again. Our host site could not figure out how to restore our pages. Joe Stallard, our noble web master, spent the better part of three straight days trying to get us back up and running. There will be extra jewels in his crown in heaven for this. SaturdayContinue reading “Sigh…”
A Hymn for Ordinary Time (3): Two Hymns of Comfort
By Chaplain Mike We here in the iMonk community have been sharing with each other many words about trials and spiritual disorientation lately. This might be a good time to include some hymns of comfort and encouragement in our weekly “Hymns for Ordinary Time” series. One of the lessons to be learned in Ordinary TimeContinue reading “A Hymn for Ordinary Time (3): Two Hymns of Comfort”
iMonk Classic: Singing in the Evangelical Liturgy
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer September 8, 2009 NOTE from CM: In 2009, Michael did a series called The Evangelical Liturgy, in which he walked through the different parts of a traditional Protestant worship service, discussing the value of recovering our own liturgical tradition. Click HERE to read the series’ introduction Go to theContinue reading “iMonk Classic: Singing in the Evangelical Liturgy”
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