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”
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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”
Major Megachurch Maniacal Missional Madness!
By Chaplain Mike Headline from Christianity Today: “Multi-Site Churches Go Interstate.” Subject: Megachurches are now expanding beyond their localities and regions to other cities and states. Example: “Pastor Mark Driscoll’s megachurch [Seattle, WA] recently announced plans to expand into Portland, Oregon, and Orange County, California, using multi-site campuses that feature live bands and a sermonContinue reading “Major Megachurch Maniacal Missional Madness!”
Open Mic: What Is the Prosperity Gospel?
By Chaplain Mike This post might also be called: “Ask Chaplain Mike: Eagle’s Questions, part 2.” But I would like to take a different approach this time. Instead of me simply answering our friend’s question, I’d like the iMonk community to take part. In fact, Eagle himself asks for this when he writes: What exactlyContinue reading “Open Mic: What Is the Prosperity Gospel?”
Distressing Disguise or Distraction?
By Chaplain Mike It finally happened. A church asked Jesus to leave the sanctuary during a worship service because he was being a “distraction.” Jesus was attending Elevation Church in Matthews, NC in the distressing disguise of a little twelve year old boy with cerebral palsy named Jackson. Jackson excitedly got all dressed up forContinue reading “Distressing Disguise or Distraction?”
Get Ready for the Next Battle
By Chaplain Mike “So, is the Adam and Eve question destined to become a groundbreaking science-and-Scripture dispute, a 21st-century equivalent of the once disturbing proof that the Earth orbits the sun? The potential is certainly there: the emerging science could be seen to challenge not only what Genesis records about the creation of humanity butContinue reading “Get Ready for the Next Battle”
Harold Camping, Plowboys, and the Peril of Jouissance
By Chaplain Mike One of the books I am currently reading is David Fitch’s The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology. (See Scot McKnight’s recent series reviewing this book.) One of the concepts from Fitch’s book that rang true to me was that of jouissance. Jouissance isContinue reading “Harold Camping, Plowboys, and the Peril of Jouissance”
Time to Leave Behind the Rapture
By Chaplain Mike Come on, children You’re acting like children Every generation Thinks it’s the end of the world – Wilco, “You Never Know” I had a spiritual awakening as a teenager in a time when prophetic expectations were high. Israel was in her land and engaged in violent confrontations with her antagonistic neighbors. IssuesContinue reading “Time to Leave Behind the Rapture”
Expecting Too Much
By Chaplain Mike Christian community is like the Christian’s sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantlyContinue reading “Expecting Too Much”
Official Historian of the Culture War (for the Right)
By Chaplain Mike What Ken Ham is to evolutionary biology, David Barton is to American history. Ham is not a scientist, nor is Barton a historian. Yet both claim to know and present THE truth about their respective subjects. And because they are such hard workers and good marketers, they have become the spokesmen ofContinue reading “Official Historian of the Culture War (for the Right)”
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