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

Reformed resources for missional work

Tim Keller comments: I think it would be most accurate to say that Reformed theology has always had great resources within it for missional work. For example: 1. Stanley Grenz credits Calvin for