URGENT!!!! Did you hear????
I am amazed often we Christians are misled and lacking in discernment. Specifically, I am addressing how this shows itself in the continual and rapid spread of so many false stories from Christians.
Does anyone remember how often we heard the Janet Reno “Christians are cultists” fabrication? (more…)
Teen & Preteen…………IDOL
Seriously, what are Billy Ray, and parents promoting this to their children thinking? Breaks my achy-breaky-heart… BTW, it might be best just to take Billboard’s word for the dancing that is performed…
Thoughts on Marketing the Church
“When the consumer is allowed to be sovereign in Church, the Church is abdicating from its responsibility because it is allowing truth to become displaced by spiritual and psychological desire. However, once the concession has been made, we then discover that satisfying needs becomes a frustrating undertaking. Needs, in a therapeutic society, multiply faster than fruit flies. No sooner is one need met 
than (more…)
David Wells Helps us Understand our Flawed, Selfish Worship
“…The thought of loving God, and occasionally of being in love with God, that characterizes postmodern hymnody has replaced the emphasis on consecration and committment that was so characteristic of classic hymnody.
At this point, the essentially mystical nature of postmodern piety becomes obvious, even though it is a mysticism that is filtered through modern, psychological assumptions. This is evident, first, in the way this kind of spirituality believes in direct access to reality. The experiencing self is admitted, as it were, into the innermost places of God directly, without any wait. The result of this assumption is that personal intuition about the purposes of God, how His will is being realized in one’s personal life, tends to blur with divine revelation and become indistinguishable from it.
Second, the God so approached is often beyond rational categories. Third, grace, in this form of Christian life, is often understood as a power that brings psychological wholeness rather than as God’s favor by which we are constituted as His in Christ. And worship is less about ascribing praise to God for who He is, than it is celebrating what we know of Him from within our own experience.” From Losing our Virtue–Why the Church Must Recover its Moral Vision, by David F. Wells.
Crisis? What Crisis?
Hi!
I am not foolish enough to say there is no financial crisis. But, as I look at this video, I am reminded that the true crisis is not that our freedoms are being taken away, or that our individual and national finances are in trouble.
Sadly, this video, though humorous in some sense, is a snapshot of the spiritual crisis we face. (more…)
Another blatant plagiarism… :) but definitely worth seeing.
Penn Jillette, other than being a magician, and entertainer (and by the way, one who flies WELL beyond the sound barrier of decency and propriety, IMO) is a vocal, avowed atheist. This clip of him is fascinating to me because it rebukes me of my gospel timidity.
Click on this Youtube video to see what I am talking about.
HT: http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2008/12/penn-jillette-on-evangelism.html
More Profundity and Phun from Phil…
Nothing much from me, but check out these posts from Phil Johnson–[if you didn't 'get' the posters, email me, I'll try to explain.]
Why Error is Thriving in the Church [Spurgeon]
Postmodern-Relativism-and-the-Church Posters
Think and enjoy…
Pas. Sam
Challenging Ideas, not Attacking People
Christians should expect our thinking to be increasingly challenged by the group-think of our age. Our holding to the body of biblical truth, and to an orthodox interpretation of those truths, will inevitably pit us against much of the thinking of the general populace. Sound familiar? I would hazard a guess that you, as a Christian reading this, are already nodding your head like a Justin Verlander bobblehead. (more…)
We are already at odds because of the Gospel…
Need we add any more reasons for friction between Christians and the lost?
Phil Johnson’s continuing thoughts on Christians and Society have been striking a harmonic chord with me–at the same time pointing out the dissonant sound of the political “Christian Right.” By dissonance, I am referring to the many ways the Christian Right message & actions flies in the face of Scriptural truth–actively, or ignorantly. Phil’s earlier missives speak well to this. You can see them here.
I have understood one of the implications of Second Corinthians 6:3 (and other passages regarding “offense” to others) to be that our only allowable ‘offense’ as Christians is the Good News itself. It seems today that many who hate, despise or think ill of Christians & Christianity (and thus in a real sense, Christ) are doing so for wrong reasons. For our part, we should ensure that the only reason they have to stand against us is our Gospel-centeredness.
