By Ed Stetzer.
A variety of recent movements among emerging generations demonstrate the need and desire for rootedness and history. The church growth movement in the 1970s and ’80s (itself a kind of proto-denomination) perpetuated the mistaken idea that only new and novel methods were effective in reaching the next generation. In exchanging older traditions for [...]
In September 2009 I stumbled across an interesting and sometimes controversial Christian commentator, Michael Spencer, who had a hugely popular blog called The Internet Monk. Spencer classified himself as “Post-evangelical”, meaning that he felt disconnected and out of step with contemporary North American Evangelical Christianity. He felt strongly that American Evangelicalism had lost its way [...]
Continue Reading...Transformational Church (Ed Stetzer & Thom S. Rainer)
Product Details
ISBN: 9781433669309
Page Count: 320
Binding: Hardcover w/Dust Jacket
Publication Date: June 2010
How are we doing? The church, that is.
And how are we doing it? Congregations have long measured success by “bodies, budget, and buildings” - a certain record of attendance, the offering plate, and square footage. But the scorecard [...]
In recent podcast interview on Philosophy Bites, philosopher Jeff McMahan argues that humans shouldn’t eat meat, because killing animals deprives them of valuable future life experiences. He believes that the morally bad act of cruelly depriving another conscious being of its future life outweighs the good that humans derive from eating animals. What do you think?
Listen [...]
Morris Gleitzman and Christian Mother Goose
Greg Clarke argues for Christianity taking its place within the world, not from a cultural corner.
I can’t remember how I stumbled across it, but it has really threatened my Christian faith. It’s a book unlike any other, challenging my worldview and giving me nights of tossing and turning in a [...]
By Keith Ward.
The clear facts of consciously valued experience and of freely chosen purpose, the intelligibility and elegance of the deep structure of the physical world, the visions of transcendent value in art, the categorical demands of duty and of the search for truth, and the testimony of so many to a felt power making [...]
It is possible to have insight into the world as a realm in which goodness, beauty and truth exist as ideals to be followed, though self-will makes their pursuit difficult. Human experience may show traces of such ideals, in the intelligibility and beauty of nature, in the sense of human significance and dignity, in the [...]
Continue Reading...A great version by Australia’s Newsboys.
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone! [...]
What, then, does a faithful and authentic Christian look like in the 21st Century?
I have been a little bewildered over the last few days. “What has bewildered you so, Roger?”, you may ask. Or you may not care in the least, in which case you may shortly click out of this article and find something [...]
In a recent article in Christianity Today magazine called A Candle In The Darkness, the president of Compassion International, Wes Stafford, tells his story of childhood abuse and deliverance in a West Africa boarding school. Read the full article here.
The boarding school in question is the now closed Mamou Alliance Academy in Guinea, West Africa. [...]