UPDATE: Welcome to all of you stopping by from the Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics. Glad to have you. The American Religious Identification Survey published its results this week, and if you go to the USA Today graphic and punch in Catholics, Other Christians and Non-Religious, you will get the picture. (Touchstone Magazine hasContinue reading “The ARIS Study: Christianity On The Decline In America”
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iMonk at Christian Science Monitor + Podcast Icon
A 1500 word version of “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” is now up at the online version of the Christian Science Monitor and will be in the print edition later this week. Thanks to the good folks at CSM for this opportunity. Also, there is now an icon on the sidebar for a direct subscription toContinue reading “iMonk at Christian Science Monitor + Podcast Icon”
Riffs/iMonk 101: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants
UPDATE: John Piper takes a look at Wilkerson’s prophecy and responds rightly. David Wilkerson (Cross and the Switchblade, Times Square Church) is predicting a world changing disaster, and advises that you dust off those cans of Spam you still have from Y2k. It’s getting serious coverage by the unhinged conservative media. I wrote about EvangelicalContinue reading “Riffs/iMonk 101: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants”
New Toys, Same Problem: Evangelicals, Evangelism and the New “Altar Call”
Becoming a disciple of Jesus just got a lot easier, thanks to your cell phone. I’m on the record about the public invitation or “altar call,” as revivalists like to call here. (Here, here, and here.) I don’t like it. Why? Read the posts, but for now, let’s look at one reason: You walk theContinue reading “New Toys, Same Problem: Evangelicals, Evangelism and the New “Altar Call””
W.A. Criswell on “The Bible Kind of Salvation”
If you’re a Southern Baptist determined to fight against those pesky Calvinists and anyone who believes in the sovereignty of God in salvation…..If you want to return the SBC to the good ‘ol days of preachers like Criswell…..go get a Diet Coke and watch/listen to this. Sit a good distance from your computer keyboard, especiallyContinue reading “W.A. Criswell on “The Bible Kind of Salvation””
Riffs: 03:07:09: David Head (and Paul) on the Gospel
It seems to me that evangelicals need to say one thing, do one thing and be one thing. But what? In lieu of an answer like, “the Gospel,” another option is to try to say many things, do many things and be many things, all from a standard that varies from group to group, evenContinue reading “Riffs: 03:07:09: David Head (and Paul) on the Gospel”
Internet Monk Radio Podcast #129
This week: Simple Evangelicalism? (Comparing today’s evangelicals to our ancient ancestors) and Are You Looking for What We’ve Lost? (I think you’ll enjoy both these podcast talks.) Brant Hansen The Blue Snowball The Belkin Tune Talk The Viking Game Our sponsors are: 60 Ways to Leave Your Mother…Alone. A comic by Michael Buckley. New ReformationContinue reading “Internet Monk Radio Podcast #129”
New Music and More at New Reformation Press
New Reformation Press has been a great sponsor for InternetMonk.com, and many of you have stopped in to buy teaching, books and the best t-shirts on the web. Now New Reformation Press has some new products that I want to make IM readers aware of, and I hope you’ll stop by and take a lookContinue reading “New Music and More at New Reformation Press”
Riffs: 03:05:09: Richard Foster on Solitude; Me on Silence
Next Reformation posted this bit of a 2008 CT interview with Richard Foster. (I mainly mention Foster to light up the radar of the discernabloggers. Boo!) What is the discipline that you think we need to be exploring more at this point? Solitude. It is the most foundational of the disciplines of abstinence, the via negativa.Continue reading “Riffs: 03:05:09: Richard Foster on Solitude; Me on Silence”
Riffs:03:05:09: Baptists- The New Methodists? (According to Dr. Chuck Kelley)
Dr. Chuck Kelley at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary spoke this week on the problems with Southern Baptist Evangelism and our churches in general. It’s a heartfelt, quite moving and well-thought out talk; a mixture of our revivalistic side and the scholarly, historical side. You can and should listen here. The message starts after theContinue reading “Riffs:03:05:09: Baptists- The New Methodists? (According to Dr. Chuck Kelley)”
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