Church

What is the gospel?

My latest column at Christian Week: What lies at the heart of the emerging church? According to Scot McKnight, Professor of Religious Studies at North Park University, the emerging movement is not defined

Missing Jesus

Four or five years ago I was unhappy with my own preaching. I knew something was missing, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was a highly frustrating time for

The arm of flesh

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Cerulean Sanctum asks if God really helps those who help themselves: One of the most neglected verses in American Christendom states: Unless the LORD

Better and scarier than a program fix

In Static, Ron Martoia pushes us to reconsider words like gospel, repentance, and salvation in light of the biblical data. “We think we know what it means so we apply that assumption to

The Blogging Church

Just saw an ad for this book: “Brian Bailey makes two things crystal clear in this book: if you’ve got a church, then you need to spread your story. And if you