Church

Evaluating Spurgeon’s Criticisms of Liturgy

When I’m in Toronto and not at Richview on a Sunday, I often find myself attending an evangelical Anglican church. It’s not high church, but there is some liturgy in the

Spurgeon on Liturgy

It isn’t often that I want to go on record opposing C.H. Spurgeon. It shouldn’t be easy to oppose the Prince of Preachers, who was much smarter than I will

Four Church Hurdles

My latest column at Christian Week: Four challenges confront the church in Canada. These four challenges are significant and call for careful thinking. Two of these challenges have to do with the culture;

Ed Stetzer Slides and Audio

Ed Stetzer was in town yesterday leading a seminar on Church Revitalization. I was busy tweeting some of his remarks. Ed is a very quotable guy. Ed was kind enough to allow us

Transitioning

It’s very hard to follow a pastor who founded the church, or whose tenure really marked a church, as I commented the other day. Hard, but not impossible. In last Sunday’s