Leftovers
Did you blink and miss summer? I did. Every year I promise myself I am going to recapture those magical golden days of summer when time used to slow down. Why, in a single day I used to fit in a dozen games of horseshoes, an hour or so of cloud watching, a romp in [...]
War of the Worlds
This was posted as a comment to the Internet Movie Database over a year ago, but I thought I’d put it here just to help keep what I write in one place, but also because I think Christians should observe, reflect and comment on art and culture, even pop culture. Click on more to read [...]
Providence, Sin and Prayer
John Piper, a preacher and writer whom I deeply admire, recently wrote an article about the bridge that collapsed which prompted his ministry to ask its readers “Does God Cause Sin or Just Allow It? “If God is sovereign over evil,” the question asks, “can it be said that he causes it? Or does he [...]
Faith Statements
On Fresh Air, Terri Gross recently interviewed Michael Farris of Patrick Henry College. PHC make each of their faculty sign a faith statement. I don’t have a lot of problem with that faith statement in general. I do wish they would add “inerrant in all its teaching.” No one does, though. I just have a [...]
Religious Freedom
Recently this tribute to veterans came in an email from a fellow Christian. The first line is “It is the veteran, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.” This bugged me, not because I don’t appreciate my freedom and those who defend it, but because it’s just another example of how our [...]
Plateaued Churches
Recently I read a heated discussion about Reviving a Plateaued Church Without Ticking People Off stirred up by an article by Rick Warren in which he writes: “If your church has been plateaued for six months, it might take six months to get it going again. If it’s been plateaued a year, it might take [...]