Rescuing souls vs. loving neighbors
I’m still finding that social justice sometimes takes a backseat to evangelism in some circles. In others, it’s just the opposite. In his book Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life, Robert
Church
Preaching – too much of a good thing?
My friend LT suggests that sermons may be like nitrogen in fertilizer. It’s necessary, yet too high a concentration is deadly:
The point I try to make about sermons is that they
The limits of church growth
My latest column at Christian Week:
Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways, argues that people in our culture generally have good perceptions of God, Jesus, and spirituality, but have very negative perceptions
Don’t abandon the idea of church
Maggi Dawn writes about Christianity and the church, and successfully challenges both those who are disillusioned with church and those who don’t understand the disillusionment:
It is almost always the case that
Fallen, but created
Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller, highlights two ways of seeing the world:
The late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder once captured the impulse quite nicely when, in the course of one of