Top Ten Reasons for Pastors to Avoid Politics
Pastors, by all means think about politics and study about politics so that you can preach and call people to politics according to Biblically grounded principles and insight into the major trends of our time.
But leave the actual politics to actual politicians and political scientists.
Hoax stories like these are likely to become more common as hoaxers become more sophisticated, warned Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State who specializes in digital media.
“That means we all have to pay more attention, all the time, and take nothing immediately at face value,” Gillmor wrote.
Does God Really Have a ‘Special’ Relationship with America?
While the American people might certainly reap the benefits of Christianity’s influence on the world more than others do in some ways, we have no solid or authoritative basis for affirming any kind of special relationship between Yahweh and the U.S.A.
Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Parousia– The Problem with Prognosticators
So what about all that discussion of the final future in the OT and NT? What is the point, and what does it reveal? My answer is simply– God reveals enough about the future to give us hope, so that we may have great expectations, but not so much that we could reduce these prophecies to a basis for calculations or prognostications.
Criticism can detract and deject the worshiper. We all must seek to limit it to healthy bounds. It may be the case that you attend a church where the Word isn’t preached, the Sacraments aren’t administered, and worship is absent. If that is the case, it is time to move on. However, if you attend a church where the Word is preached, the Sacraments are rightly administered, and worship is present then delight in worshiping God. You are meeting with the Triune God of the universe. Don’t let our adversary tempt you to do something less. The worship critic stands in judgment over everyone and everything else, the God-adoring worshiper rightly kneels in unity with her brothers and sisters humbly before her King.
The key to better work? E-mail less, flow more
What the researchers found was that the typical diversion caused by an e-mail was 9 minutes and 30 seconds in length. Now that was just the time spent on the e-mail itself. After that, it still took the participants of the study another 16 minutes to resume their primary task. That’s a lot of lost time.