RAMBLER(S) OF THE WEEK Our Rambler of the Week award goes to a team and a great company of long-suffering fans in Chicago, who waited 108 years for this day to arrive — the day when the Chicago Cubs would be crowned World Series Champions. It has happened, and great is the rejoicing! Lord, nowContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings: November 5, 2016”
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Fridays with Michael Spencer: November 4, 2016
Note from CM: For a time Michael Spencer called himself a “Calvinist” and dwelt among the reformed. But he recognized pretty soon that there were a lot of ways he didn’t fit in. For our final “reformation consideration” this week, we present this address MS made to his friends in that world. • • •Continue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: November 4, 2016”
Mike the Geologist: On the Grand Canyon and the Flood (1)
Note from CM: We welcome back Michael McCann, aka Mike the Geologist, to do a series blogging through a book about the Grand Canyon, one of earth’s great natural wonders. Young earth creationists have tried to explain this magnificent geologic marvel by appealing to a great worldwide flood in the days of Noah. Let’s see how theirContinue reading “Mike the Geologist: On the Grand Canyon and the Flood (1)”
Reformation Considerations: Reforming Evangelicalism Today
Bill Hybels did market research and now his daughter does a Christian-spin on a TED tour. • Jake Meador • • • Today, some considerations about reforming the church in our own day. In the light of the Jen Hatmaker situation that drew a lot of attention in the Christian world this past week (andContinue reading “Reformation Considerations: Reforming Evangelicalism Today”
Reformation Considerations: An Interview with William Sola
Note from CM: In the light of Reformation Day and the beginning of the year-long celebration of the Ref’s 500th anniversary, we will present some articles this week on Reformation themes. Michael Spencer, whose views about Protestantism and Catholicism developed and changed a great deal over the years of his writing, once said that the Reformation,Continue reading “Reformation Considerations: An Interview with William Sola”
Sermon: The Truth Will Make You Free (Reformation Sunday)
Note from CM: Beginning yesterday, I will be preaching every Sunday at St. George Lutheran Church in Edinburgh, Indiana until April. On Mondays, I’ll post my sermons, and I hope that you will find nourishment and encouragement through them. Of course, you are free to critique and help me improve my preaching as well! We celebratedContinue reading “Sermon: The Truth Will Make You Free (Reformation Sunday)”
Pic & Post of the Week: Halloween Classic Edition
(Click on picture for larger image) Note from CM: Because tomorrow is Halloween, our pic & poem post will become a pic & post article — excerpted from one of Michael Spencer’s classic Halloween pieces. • • • The world of the imagination has always been essential to human beings, but they’ve never known just whatContinue reading “Pic & Post of the Week: Halloween Classic Edition”
Saturday Ramblings: October 29, 2016
RAMBLER OF THE WEEK Despite the fact that, in one of his last writings, Martin Luther: addressed the pope as “Your Hellishness,” called him a person who shoveled horse shit into people’s mouths; despite his description of the pope as “full of all the worst devils in hell-full, full, and so full that [he] can do nothingContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings: October 29, 2016”
Fridays with Michael Spencer: October 28, 2016
A saint is capable of loving created things and enjoying the use of them and dealing with them in a perfectly simple, natural manner, making no formal references to God, drawing no attention to his own piety, and acting without any artificial rigidity at all. His gentleness and his sweetness are not pressed through hisContinue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: October 28, 2016”
Chris Kratzer: I’m Done: Why I’m Completely Walking Away From Church, Ministry, And Most Everything “Christian”
Note from CM: Today we hear from Chris Kratzer, who blogs at Putting into Words What Only Grace Is Brave Enough to Say. Chris, believe me, I understand. Thanks for letting us share a bit of your journey today. • • • I’m Done: Why I’m Completely Walking Away From Church, Ministry, And Most EverythingContinue reading “Chris Kratzer: I’m Done: Why I’m Completely Walking Away From Church, Ministry, And Most Everything “Christian””
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