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Moving beyond knowing “right answers”
Evangelical Christianity in America is simply a cultural way of looking good.
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The Daniel Generation has to KNOW THEIR GOD
The American Church is headed for a new Dark Ages … but it doesn’t have to.
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Good bye “normal” church…
And, quite frankly, good riddance. I can hope, anyway. This post on the future of evangelicals is a good read. It’s refreshing. We are stumbling into new realities. These are things the greater evangelical church should have paid attention to decades ago, but the majority are only now being dragged kicking and screaming into the true reality of Kingdom living.…
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America becoming less Christian
So America is becoming “less Christian.” I still think the number who “profess” is way to high, but that’s just me. The sad part is the desire to have LESS of a religious voice in the public square: While the number of Evangelicals hasn’t changed much, the number of unaffiliated Americans has, and they are becoming increasingly organized and vocal…
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Christianity isn’t for the lazy
“If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all… Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that…
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What is the Church?
From NT Wright’s book, Simply Jesus. The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It’s a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus’s kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task. And this: Jesus has all kinds of projects up…
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Quote of the Day
Here is some more “radical” thought from a real heretic: C S Lewis.
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Please Try Another Religion
Following Christ is not the cream puff, cotton candy, all sugar stuff we’ve seen promoted in our current culture. It is not about just “hangin’” with the “crew” (or whatever slang is being used in this 24 hour period). Following Christ is not a hangout. He is LIFE. He does not lie to you about that. Maybe some other “Christian”…
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Intellectual Dishonesty
As I teach Old Testament and New Testament at a college level, at I am continually amazed at how little “Christian” students know the stories. This presents a question I simply want to ask and see if there might be any discussion: Is it intellectually dishonest to say you are a Christian and then never read in full the sacred…