Ellis Potter is the Pastor of the Basel Christian Fellowship and a former Member of L’Abri Fellowship. He was born in California and was a Zen Buddhist for many years before becoming a Christian. In this talk, posted on Apologetics 315, Potter gives an informative and generous account of Buddhism, its underlying philosophy and its [...]
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With an Australian Federal Election approaching on August 21st, the usually rather apathetic Australian population, including Australian Christians, are stirred from their slumber and transformed into placard-waving political animals, even if only for a short time. Amongst this renewed political and societal vigour, a group of Australian Christians has got together to put together what [...]
Calling All Angels - Train
I need a sign to let me know you’re here
All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
I need to know that things are gonna look up
‘Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup
When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
by Larry A. Taunton.
Richard Dawkins, the world’s most infamous atheist, is once again making headlines.
The author of The God Delusion, Dawkins has earned an international reputation as a polemicist, the religious receiving the brunt of his attacks. Now Dawkins has set his sights on the Pope. Joining the wave of anti-Catholic fervor, Dawkins’ legal team [...]
Joseph H. Hellerman | posted 28/05/2010 on Christianity Today.
What would the church look like if it put ‘we’ before ‘me’?
Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. Persons who remain connected with their brothers and sisters in the local church almost invariably grow in self-understanding. And they mature in their ability to relate in [...]