Faith

Entering the Christmas story

Last year four churches participated in what they called The Advent Conspiracy. It came out of a few pastors sitting around talking about how much they hate being pastors at Christmas. You would

Two good podcasts

We have a big backyard for the city, which gives me tons of raking to do. I couldn’t avoid the job any longer, so I spend the afternoon raking and listening to

The problem with the church

The past couple of days, there’s been some reaction to a Brian McLaren’s Christmas letter.  Bene titled a post “Brian McLaren sells out?” based on a post at Today At the

A farewell sermon

My uncle, Dr. John Crocker, has served as pastor of First Evangelical Free Church in Rockford, Illinois  for the past 15 years. He preached his last sermon there last Sunday. “I decided that