Just got back from Sunday morning brunch at one of our favorite little Eastie spots. It’s a wonderful little breakfast-lunch place that you’d never find by accident, because it’s in the middle of a working boat yard. You give your order to Wendy at a little walk-up window inside, grab a recycled cup for some [...]
Archive for the ‘church’ Category
12 Nov
a minister lives here
…and the Senate wants to know why. Read to the very end of this piece in the LA Times.
16 Aug
“you know not how”
John Piper and I don’t agree on everything theologically, but man do I love what he said at a recent conference at his church. He is speaking truth, and those of us in kingdom work had better listen closely.
Let me just give one last counsel or piece of advice. This comes right off of [...]
10 Aug
no surprise here
Check out the most recent USA Today report on post-high school church involvement. Not really anything new here, just another study showing that church attendance is simply not that important to most twentysomething Christians, let alone not-yet-Christians. In fact, we’d be considered among those who have “left the church.” Here’s a snippet:
Seven in [...]
12 Jul
coverings and church perception
Keith Giles has some helpful things to say about “spiritual covering” in today’s Subversive Underground Newsletter. He contrasts authentic biblical accountability in ministry and missions with what some churches call “spiritual covering,” which he asserts is often used as a way to control the activity of their members. He concludes with this powerful statement:
The [...]
26 Jun
church reform
“If Christianity is to become aware of what it is, we must abandon the pastoral church which takes care of people, which is the usual form of the Western church. Instead, we have to call to life a Christian community church. Either we set about this church reform by ourselves, or it will be forced [...]
14 Jun
My friend, who is in the process of leaving a church he’s attended for 8 1/2 years, made this comment in a conversation Tuesday:
The biggest problem to me with that [church] model is that it keeps it’s members busy doing things to attract other people, and in the end the people doing all the work [...]
12 Jun
amazing piece by Agent B
If you don’t subscribe to the free monthly e-zine “Next-Wave,” why the heck not? Some of it I could take or leave, and some of it is gold. And now I have a new reason to open up that monthly e-mail: Agent B. Yes, my friend from the “Fair Mother City” is [...]
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