How Churches Became Cruise Ships
What these “pastorpreneurs” found was that people would still attend church in a post-Christian culture if it appealed to their felt-needs. Rather than viewing the church as simply a means to an end (connecting people with God), they made the church an end in itself. The logic was simple: if the masses did not feel the need to connect with God then perhaps another “felt need” could draw them into the church: the need for community, or entertainment, help with their kids or marriage. While they consumed the upbeat music, support groups, dramas, and therapeutic sermons they will hopefully find God too.
Are You Too Christian for Non-Christians?
It is so easy to fill our time with the activity and fellowship of Christian life. Block out time for prayer, quiet time, worship, Sunday school, small group, committee meetings, accountability partners, Christian entertainment, political action and socializing with your best friends with whom you just so happen to also attend church and, well, there really isn’t much margin left for, let’s say, evangelism.
Migrant Children Flee Violence in Home Countries
What we have at our southern border is not a disaster created by the United States or any perception of our immigration laws. What we have is a regional humanitarian disaster resulting from widespread, institutionalized violence in a part of the world that is only 1,149 miles—less than the distance from Brooklyn, New York, to Kansas City, Missouri—away from our border. These children are here, crowded into our makeshift facilities and facing an uncertain future—to escape violence and death as much as any child in refugee camps around the world.
How do we maintain exhilaration for God’s work of ministry and love? How is it that one can actually abide by Paul’s admonition that we are to be new day by day? There is one word that explains, defines, and ignites.
Resurrection.
When Words Mean What They Don’t Mean
So as I said, this is an impossible verse to translate if you want to stay true to the meaning of the words used. And yet it does communicate, doesn’t it? I wonder how many of us actually have noticed this issue, or did we just read over the verse, understanding the meaning.
Bad Reasons to Switch to Expository Preaching
- Don’t switch to expository preaching just because the churches in your neighborhood that do it are growing
- Don’t switch to expository preaching just because your young associate pastors are clamoring for it
- Don’t switch to expository preaching just because your church members like famous preachers’ expository sermons better than your non-expository sermons
Esteemed Journalism School Apparently Forgot To Proofread Its Diplomas
As media blogger Jim Romenesko writes, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill journalism program posted a photo to Twitter over the weekend of his friend’s diploma citing the “Medill School of Journalism, Media, Itegrated [sic] Marketing Communications.”
‘Sexy’ felon Jeremy Meeks could reportedly receive modeling contract
The numerous tattoos don’t seem to be a problem for either agency. Blaze said it even likes the teardrop tattoo below his right eye — a symbol associated with gangs.