Reordering the Christian life
A paperback copy of Paul Louis Metzger’s Consuming Jesus arrived in the mail a couple of weeks ago to replace the Word document I’ve been using. I’ve been blogging through
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Attraction to the messenger, not the message
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
From Oswald Chambers:
When we say, "What a wonderful personality, what a fascinating person, and what wonderful insight!" then what opportunity does
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
A tendency to control the process
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
From a chapter, written by Premkumar D. Williams, in Everyday Theology:
..models pore over their portfolios, singers over their music videos, and preachers over
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