Fellowship Baptists and the emerging storm
As Stephen Shields and others have noted, 2005 is the year that the emerging church will get a lot of attention and criticism. This is going to hit in a lot of places
Little hooks
Monday’s seminar was amazing. Sometimes we get to think that theology is just all theory and removed from everyday life. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve been thinking
Hats
Josiah has told me that if he can’t be a firefighter, he will settle for selling hats. Evidently pastoring is boring but that is not. I don’t know where he is
Church vs. kingdom
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
The church gets into trouble whenever it thinks its in the church business rather than the kingdom business. In church business people are concerned
Pastors of growing churches spend time on preaching
Research from Thom Rainer:
If time is a good measure, the leaders of effective churches prepare well for the sermons they preach each week. By a ratio of greater than 5 to 1,