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Red Green
Red Green comment: When a woman’s mind goes blank, she says, “Snap out of it.” When a man’s mind goes blank, he says, “There we go…I’m in the zone now.”
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Gut Punch
It is unbelievable how this week has unfolded. The news keeps coming and it’s so heart-wrenching. A friend struggling with a wife’s mental illness. The loss of a great woman of God (my wife’s grandmother). The news of cancer striking at a friend, and they have kids all under the age of 12. The news of a children pastor’s wife…
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Revisiting the Reformation
Christianity Today is running a series of articles from world evangelical leaders on their views of what is needed in the 21st Century. Rene Padilla’s column focused on a return to first principles, especially as it regards the first Lausanne Conference. Padilla’s opening line: A key problem of evangelical churches worldwide is the unilateral emphasis on numerical growth. For the…
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Thoughts on Creation
In the past few days I’ve appreciated some posts on creation because I teach Old Testament at my college and these resources will help me communicate better. For one, I am an AOG pastor/teacher and seeing Brian’s post on the AOG’s new position paper on Creation was exciting. I have been very critical of my denomination in many areas, but…
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The Mosque, The Church, and the Koran
I realize I’m a “Johnny-come-lately” on much of this, mainly because much of it arose while I was on sabbatical and wasn’t blogging. Part of it comes from my desire to process things a little first before reacting. Much has been made of the “Ground Zero Mosque” that is moving forward. It is a mosque that is very close to…
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Bold Movement by Lutherans
With the ELCA decision to ordain homosexual clergy, which was only the latest thing in a long line of worries about the denomination, a new Lutheran group emerged. At their conference, the speakers were incredibly BOLD. Carl Braaten in particular, went after the ELCA for being gnostic. Braaten described the ELCA approach to authority as deficient in three “Gnostic” ways,…
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Intentional, Confessional… Pentecostal
Is that even “legal?” 😉 Intentional. Pentecostals are known more for spontaneity than intentionality in worship. If it’s planned these days, it’s more pragmatism than thoughtful worship. What I seek is intentional worship. Careful attention to the songs we sing, the Scripture we read, the education we give our children… all of it. As a Pentecostal pastor I am also…
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The Gospel of Wealth
David Brooks is the like the Babe Ruth of columnists for me. Every time I see his column is like seeing Babe Ruth come to bat. You just wait to see him hit it out of the park. This column on “The Gospel of Wealth” is powerful. I remember reading a short excerpt from David Platt’s book when the publisher…
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Book Review — Beyond Opinion
Beyond Opinion by Ravi Zacharias is a well laid-out book on apologetics.Zacharias is the general editor and authors a couple of chapters. Other authors work for Zacharias’ apologetics ministry in some capacity. While the book has a major section on how to answer different kinds of religions and opinions we face in our world today, the best part of the…
