UPDATE: Ryan Cordle hits a home run in his response to this piece. The discussion about the atheist’s report of attending a Planetshaker’s worship experience could be repeated a thousand times a week here at IM, and has been in various forms down through the 8 year history of this site. Our Irish Catholic friendContinue reading “Your Mission: “Resacramentalize Evangelicalism””
Category Archives: Commentary
Leaving Room For Churches To Be Wrong
UPDATE II: Phillip Winn has an excellent response to this post. UPDATE: Moderation is on. My apologies that I have to do this so often. Bill Kinnon reviews DeYoung and Kluck’s newest book, Why We Love the Church. I haven’t read the book, and won’t, but Bill did, and talks about it. Tim Challies reviewedContinue reading “Leaving Room For Churches To Be Wrong”
Look Ma! I Can Wear This Caricature, Too!
Tim Challies recently reprinted an extended quote from Kevin DeYoung’s writing on the emerging/emergent church. I won’t reprint it here, but if the rest of the post is going to make any sense to you, go read it all. When I first read this, it tipped my already leaning inclination to be highly annoyed atContinue reading “Look Ma! I Can Wear This Caricature, Too!”
The Law/Gospel Rant
NOTE: Despite the fact that this post is law, you should still read it 🙂 I want to talk about a specific problem in preaching and teaching: the problem of preferring law over Gospel. I consider the primary problem with preaching and teaching in my Southern Baptist tradition these days to be an obsession withContinue reading “The Law/Gospel Rant”
Is There A Place To Repent? (Or Must I Make This Journey Alone?)
6: 9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—noneContinue reading “Is There A Place To Repent? (Or Must I Make This Journey Alone?)”
Riffs 07:24:09: Checking the Pulse of the Post-Evangelical Conversation in Three Manifestos
I’m going to comment on three documents, and I don’t want to reproduce them here. All are available online. One is “A Post-Evangelical Manifesto” and can be found at Next Wave Magazine’s web site. It is written by Raffi Shahinian. Another is “The Jesus Manifesto” written by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. It can beContinue reading “Riffs 07:24:09: Checking the Pulse of the Post-Evangelical Conversation in Three Manifestos”
Hold The Light For Me
UPDATE: As usual, David Hayward brilliantly gets it right. It’s been a long year like a long sleepless night Jacob wrestled the angel but I’m too tired to fight every Wednesday for two years we’ve met I’ve showed you all my anger, my doubts and bitterness there was no judgment in your eyes just theContinue reading “Hold The Light For Me”
Evangelicals In the Star Trek Universe
For those of you keeping score, we gave up the television about 4 months ago. We discovered that, for $60 a month, we were watching one episode of House, M.D. a week and I was watching baseball. Not worth it, especially with MLB.com and Hulu. Everyone is fine, we’re using Netflix, buying some DVDs andContinue reading “Evangelicals In the Star Trek Universe”
Blogosphere Spirituality: An Assessment
I’m writing about spirituality these days. Yeah, I know how a lot of you feel about that word. So deal. We’re going to use it. We’re also going to use another word some of you don’t like: formation. Now that we’re good and grumpy, let’s go for a ride. I’ve been reflecting on the spiritualContinue reading “Blogosphere Spirituality: An Assessment”
First, Second and Third Thoughts on the CStone 09 “Gay Rights and Wrongs” Panel
On Friday, July 3, I moderated a panel at Cornerstone 09 on the topic of “Gay Rights and Wrongs.” Here is the blurb from the CStone web site: Gays, Rights & Wrongs (Moderator: Michael Spencer, w/Andrew Marin, Richard Amesbury, Tony Jones, Christine Sneeringer & Frank Carrasco ) “Is homosexualty still a sin – or aContinue reading “First, Second and Third Thoughts on the CStone 09 “Gay Rights and Wrongs” Panel”
The Internet Monk Archives 