Just a reminder… these links are provided to provoke thought or to entertain. I don’t necessarily agree with them nor endorse the sites they appear on. Tim
Keeping Your Birthright In An Election Year
In recent years, the Christian community has sadly served as little more than a predictable, devote (and loud) voting bloc with a ferocious, angry bark. At present, the church’s unholy alliances in politics have made us a tool of the Right, an enemy of the Left, and prophetic to neither. For some time now, we have so desperately wanted a seat in the halls of power that we have abandoned the witness and testimony of the Christ.
No, Hanging Out With Your Friends is Not the Church
If you are gathering with a group of friends to talk about life and the Scriptures, don’t stop. But don’t confuse it with church either.
An Anglican Theologian Has Five Questions for Rachel Held Evans
What I like is that Evans is beautifully affirming of the resurrection, she has an almost poetic view of the Eucharist, and is resolutely pro-church. Evans also calls those trying to woo millennials back to church not to bother with tacky worshiptainment, but to seek substance over cheesiness.…However, as an Anglican theologian/clergyman, I do have some pressing questions for Rachel. Who knows, maybe she’ll even answer!.
How the Prosperity Gospel Hurts Racial Reconciliation
This will mean that we must oppose not only the full-deal heresy of the prosperity gospel but also the implicit ways we have absorbed a kind of discount-rate prosperity gospel that can view Christianity as centered around white, middle-class American success. Most of the church is impoverished, by American standards. This is no sign that God is not blessing the church. Those sectors of the church around the world that are now the least “successful” by American standards are the very churches holding most firmly to the gospel, a gospel increasingly distant from American values.
3 Important Church Trends in the Next 10 Years
Trend #1: The Hemorrhaging of Mainline Protestantism
Trend #2: Continued Growth of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
Trend #3: Networks will Explode in Number and Influence
Ask often, “What does the Bible say?”
What’s the most significant issue in your life right now? What major decision is before you? Be sure to ask, “What does the Bible say about this?” Then, as you turn to the Bible, pray the prayer of Psalm 119:18: “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.”
Why Copyblogger Is Killing Its Facebook Page
That’s how Copyblogger has felt about its Facebook page for quite some time.
As of today, the page has 38,000 “fans,” but Copyblogger’s presence on Facebook has not been beneficial for the brand or its audience.
This Dad Used a Drone to Follow His Daughter to School
Per a report from WVLT Local 8 news, Knoxville, Tennessee resident and pretty chill dad Chris Early turned to a creative solution when his 8-year-old daughter Katie asked to walk to school alone. The “techie” whipped out his beloved drone and flew it above her, watching video surveillance of Katie’s journey.