Apprentice 2 Jesus

Church Life

  • Loving the Church

    This review gives me another chance to simply say: “I love the Church!” I truly love the Body of Christ and love the Church. This book is one I need to put on my list and get! This quote is a good one: We need to be reminded that: there is no language in Scripture… Read more

  • At My Best

    I was talking with a pastor friend over lunch and he left me with a particular thought. He said someone he knew with the Gallup organization (that does polling) was working on a question where it would answer how effective a church was in a community. What statement would show those members really were maturing… Read more

  • Do You Have MTD?

    It is my goal to so bore any reader up front that my final conclusion gets missed. Since there aren’t that many people floating by, I’m taking a chance. Yet, I need to point out some things stirring in my heart. MTD is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It’s reflected on in a column on the Christianity… Read more

  • Why Some REALLY Want to be "Emergent"

    The Secret is Out. Read more

  • Why Some REALLY Want to be "Emergent"

    The Secret is Out. Read more

  • Explaining "Emergent", "Emerging"…

    The titles are all confusing, but Mark Driscoll tackles this quite well in a short interview. Read more

  • Explaining "Emergent", "Emerging"…

    The titles are all confusing, but Mark Driscoll tackles this quite well in a short interview. Read more

  • Does the Church Shoot Its Wounded?

    I am truly curious about reactions to this statement from Ted Haggard: “The church has said, ‘Go to hell.’ The church chose not to forgive me, but instead to exile me,” he says. If you have followed Ted Haggard’s story, as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to his rise as president of… Read more

  • Does the Church Shoot Its Wounded? I am truly curious about reactions to this statement from Ted Haggard:“The church has said, ‘Go to hell.’ The church chose not to forgive me, but instead to exile me,” he says. If you have followed Ted Haggard’s story, as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs to… Read more

  • What is “relevant”? Our post-modern angst in the evangelical church to be “relevant” has always disturbed me. What in the world does “relevant” mean, anyway? As usual, I simply cannot put those thoughts into eloquent words, or even coherent words. When I try to explain my displeasure with this “postmodern church” I end up sounding… Read more