What about “Us Vs Them” Church Ads?

UPDATE III: Joel Hunter has written a massive substantial response to the podcasts that go along with the ads. UPDATE II: The pastor whose church produced the ads has a blog that is full of provocative ideas. If you want a glimpse into what the emerging church growth culture looks like, this is a veryContinue reading “What about “Us Vs Them” Church Ads?”

Riffs:12:06:06 Dan Kimball Responds to Macarthur’s Portrayal of the Emerging Church

UPDATE II: Andrew Sandlin with a fine review of the Emerging Church and politics. An outstanding essay. Very helpful. UPDATE: Bill Kinnon let’s his hair down, so to speak, in this post on Macarthur’s letter. Dan Kimball’s response to John Macarthur’s characterization of the emerging church stands in stark contrast to the large quoted sectionsContinue reading “Riffs:12:06:06 Dan Kimball Responds to Macarthur’s Portrayal of the Emerging Church”

Christ: The Meeting Place

He became the reconciling place where opposites met. He was the meeting place of God and man. Man the aspiring and God the inspiring meet in Him. Heaven and earth came together and are forever reconciled. The material and the spiritual after their long divorce have in Him found their reconciliation. The natural and theContinue reading “Christ: The Meeting Place”

A Lesson From St. Jack: Holding on to All Things

“He demonstrated for me and convinced me that rigorous, precise, penetrating logic is not opposed to deep, soul-stirring feeling and vivid, lively- even playful- imagination. He was a “romantic rationalist.” He combined things that almost everybody today assumes are mutually exclusive: rationalism and poetry, cool logic and warm feeling, disciplined prose and free imagination. InContinue reading “A Lesson From St. Jack: Holding on to All Things”

Skip the Carping This Advent

I never heard about Advent growing up. Our church recognized Christmas, but anything else would have been too “catholic,” and we were fundamentalistic Southern Baptists. What I heard about Christmas was dependable preaching from the texts surrounding the birth of Jesus, the Lottie Moon Christmas offering for foreign missions, and a lot of negativity. Negativity?Continue reading “Skip the Carping This Advent”

That Silly Question and The “Truth War”

John Macarthur has a new book called “The Truth War.” This article is not a review or a critique of that book. I haven’t read any more than a brief summary chapter published at “Pulpit” blog. In fact, I’m not quite sure why I mentioned the book at all. Probably to attract readers who willContinue reading “That Silly Question and The “Truth War””