by | Aug 7, 2012 | Church, Culture, Preaching, Theology, Worship
A couple of weeks ago on Kevin DeYoung’s blog, Josh Blunt wrote four guest posts that I thoroughly appreciated. Blunt describes the journey his own church plant took from being an attractional church (“metro”) to becoming a church marked by...
by | Jul 26, 2012 | Church, Culture, History, Theology
The Filioque Controversy is the long-standing division between the Eastern and Western Churches, where the West added the phrase filioque (“and the Son”) to the Nicene Creed, so that the creed explains that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father...
by | May 30, 2011 | Books, Culture, History
From Michael Green’s classic Evangelism in the Early Church: The advantages for the Christian mission of having a common language can hardly be overestimated. It did away with the necessity for missionary language schools. Missionaries using it would incur none...
by | May 21, 2011 | Bible, Church, Culture, History, Theology
Today is supposed to be the day that the world ends, according to self-appointed prophesy expert Harold Camping. Of course, Jesus was very explicit that no one would be able to do this in Matthew 24:36. (A local pastor, Stu Kerns, had a great interview on the radio on...
by | Sep 21, 2010 | Books, Culture, History, Theology
Apparently it’s open hunting season on Ayn Rand, beginning with Gary Moore’s “Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession,” and picked up by Ben Witherington’s “Randian Libertarianism—-An Anti-Christian Credo.” I’m...
by | Aug 22, 2010 | Bible, Church, Culture, History, Theology, Worship
Jonathan Fitzgerald chronicles an increasing trend among evangelicals: frequent conversions to Catholicism. He writes: Croslow’s interest in Catholicism began over six years ago when he was a sophomore in high school. At the time, Croslow’s Midwestern evangelical...