Sometimes I don’t need to hear about success. I need to hear about why I matter. I need an antidote to discouragement that reminds me its OK to just be me. A classic IM piece that is meant to lift up the downcast with some seldom heard interpretations of well known passages. READ: “The SanityContinue reading “iMonk 101: The Sanity Verses”
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iMonk 101: A prayer for Alex- What to do when your child says he doesn’t believe any more.
This is an essay from 2005 that I believe has been helpful to a few parents. It was printed in Modern Reformation. Christian parents are always on my mind and heart. I know it’s difficult parenting children when the thing we most want for them can only come into their lives, ultimately, by the graceContinue reading “iMonk 101: A prayer for Alex- What to do when your child says he doesn’t believe any more.”
Rerun: Witherington on Osteen vs. Jesus
I ran this post when the link from Ben Witherington first came out. It’s one of the best discussions of the issue with Osteen that I’ve read. Worth rerunning. God bless Ben Witherington, who takes on the THEOLOGY of Joel Osteen, particularly as it applies to the teaching of Jesus. Thank you, Dr. Witherington, forContinue reading “Rerun: Witherington on Osteen vs. Jesus”
Done Said It: Why Do They Hate Us?
Will Hinton tagged me, but I wrote the response several years ago: Why Do They Hate Us? When I published this several years ago, over 100 atheists wrote me saying “amen.”
IMonk 101: A Generous Catholicity
Here’s an essay from the archives that discusses that part of post-evangelicalism some find the most obnoxious: the confession that I believe in the catholic church and a catholic Christianity. It’s called “A Generous Catholicity.” With discussions of ecclesiology beginning to heat up in Southern Baptist life and among the many new church leaders lookingContinue reading “IMonk 101: A Generous Catholicity”
Riffing On Me: Jared Wilson’s “The Hard Stuff of Real Lives.”
I don’t usually link people who riff on my work, but I have tremendous respect for Jared at Gospel Driven Church, and his use of one of my better pieces “To Know We’re Not Alone,” is a real honor. Take a moment and read “The Hard Stuff of Real Lives.” I want you to readContinue reading “Riffing On Me: Jared Wilson’s “The Hard Stuff of Real Lives.””
iMonk 101: A Parable for our Church-Growth, Seeker-Sensitive Friends
iMonk 101 reruns posts from the IM archives. This is the first “parable” post I ever did at IM. (I actually wrote it back when I was on michaelspencer.us.) “A Parable for Our Church-Growth, Seeker-Sensitive Friends.” This kind of story illustrates what happens to us when “boredom” becomes the big problem, and we take theContinue reading “iMonk 101: A Parable for our Church-Growth, Seeker-Sensitive Friends”
iMonk 101: God’s Sovereignty and God’s Providence
What I believe about God’s sovereignty and God’s providence.
iMonk 101: The Man in the Shadow of Adultery
UPDATE: This is an essay from a couple of years ago that has been helpful to many. I’ll rerun it and prayer it finds its audience as it did before. (8/1/07) I have been wanting to write this major essay on adultery for almost four years. It was just never there. Yesterday, for whatever reason,Continue reading “iMonk 101: The Man in the Shadow of Adultery”
Yaconelli Tribute
As a young youth minister, no one influenced me more with his HONESTY and his JESUS than Mike Yaconelli. He would have been 65 years old today. I miss him and his messy spirituality. He was responsible for much of the good – and some of the bad- that’s happened in evangelicalism the last 20Continue reading “Yaconelli Tribute”
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