Still looking for Jephthah
This post is going somewhere. Stick with me for a minute.
Last week I spent some time in the strange story of Jephthah in the book of Judges (chapters 10-11). Jephthah is the
Church
Evangelicalism’s uneasy conscience
My latest column at Christian Week:
Sixty years ago, Carl Henry, “the father of modern fundamentalism,” wrote a book expressing concern with the direction of evangelicalism. Reading Henry’s book, The Uneasy Conscience
Transforming the consumer church
I’ve been blogging through the first couple of chapters of Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus. So far, Metzger has been raising some familiar concerns. The evangelical church isn’t what it
Blind to sinister forces
Not every book on the consumerism and the church includes a chapter on fallen powers. But Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus devotes a healthy section to this topic. Metzger writes, “Sinister forces
Does the evangelical church need to repent?
Last week I wrote about three trends in evangelicalism from Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus:
* Anti-intellectualism – a fear that “head knowledge” will cancel out “heart knowledge” which has led to an activistic,