The Politics of the Kingdom
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
A prophetic call from the late Edmund Clowney, at the end of an essay called “The Politics of the Kingdom” (PDF):
The politics of
John Stott’s prayer
A prayer from John Stott's book Your Mind Matters:
I pray earnestly that God will raise up today a new generation of Christian apologists or Christian communicators, who will combine an
Evangelical missteps
In Consuming Jesus, Paul Metzger argues that the evangelical movement needs reform.
How did we get to the current situation in the evangelical church? Metzger argues that three historical themes converged to make
Discouragement
The final version of my thesis includes this paragraph:
Theocentric preaching does not begin with the inexhaustible demands of the human condition; it begins with the sufficiency of God. Rather than dwelling in
99 Balloons
Via Justin Taylor, a profound and moving six-minute video called 99 Balloons:
Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into