God Doesn’t Need Talented People
For Paul, glory and power belong to God, and God displays his glory through weakness.
Paul wants to jolt us out of our natural way of thinking. He wants us to consider the God behind the minister. He wants to point us to true power. He wants to accent the graced-character of gospel ministry and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. In the fourth chapter of 1 Corinthians, Paul... Continue Reading
The Southern Baptist Convention Today
Influential voices from both within and without the convention have signaled that the dismissal of Paige Patterson from the Southwestern Seminary presidency is only the first step of many that need to be taken to clean up the SBC.
That there is much in the SBC that needs to be changed, is a point beyond dispute to my mind. But the end games for some appear to include everything from the full acceptance of women pastors, partial acceptance of the LBGTQ+ agenda, and reparations by the descendants of slaveholders to the descendants of slaves.... Continue Reading
Employees Quit American Bible Society over Sex and Marriage Rules
“This decision does not signal intent to advocate or champion any cause other than increased engagement with the Bible.”
The American Bible Society, founded 202 years ago to publish, distribute and translate the Bible, presented its “Affirmation of Biblical Community” to employees in December. It requires employees to “refrain from sexual contact outside the marriage covenant,” which it defined as man and wife. (RNS) — One of the oldest nonprofit organizations dedicated to distributing Bibles around the... Continue Reading
Nigerian Bishop Says GAFCON Exists Because Some Anglican Leaders Have Rejected Authority of Bible
Divisions are deepening and will not be healed by the techniques of the corporate world, he says Where there is no repentance, there must be realignment
“When Anglicans come together as the global ‘household of God’ in a shared commitment to the unchanging gospel, which for us is set out in the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration, we can help and guide one another in the task of fashioning a faithful witness which is appropriate to our settings without being compromised.” ... Continue Reading
What Is the Church?
The Greek word that is translated as “church” in the Bible is ekklēsia
The church, then, consists of those whom the Lord has called out of the world into union and fellowship with Christ and into communion with each other. And, as John Calvin (citing the church father Cyprian) says, “To those to whom He is a Father, the Church must also be a mother.” In the... Continue Reading
Five Lessons Learned From Decades of Preaching
There is no room for ego, bragging, or pride in preaching
The preparation of a sermon or a teaching calls the preacher to be honest with himself first. Paul warned about the peddlers, the hucksters, who gain from using the Word of God without sincerity in their hearts: 2 Corinthians 2:17 says, “For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from... Continue Reading
Transgender People Encouraged to Become Priests in Church of England Diversity Drive
Bishops in the diocese of Lichfield have issued new guidance to parishioners and clergy reminding them that LGBT people "can be called to roles of leadership and service in the local church".
“We very much hope that they, like everyone else, feel encouraged to serve on PCCs, or as churchwardens and worship leaders, for instance, and are supported in exploring vocations to licensed lay and ordained ministries,” the guidance says. “Nobody should be told that their sexual or gender identity in itself makes them an unsuitable candidate... Continue Reading
A Concern with Chan’s Home Church Planting Model: A Gentle Call for Correction
While Francis Chan is not alone in advocating such a model, he is one of the most prominent voices pressing the agenda today.
Home church models seem to take what was birthed out of necessity in the New Testament and present it as normative. Paul was persistently persecuted. At various points in his ministry, he was pressed out of multiple cities shortly after winning converts in those cities (Acts 17: 1–10). In other words, his short tenures in... Continue Reading
How Evangelicals Teamed up With the White House on Prison Reform
At a White House dinner last year, a seed was planted that would grow to become the proposed First Step Act, aimed at reducing the number of people who return to prison after serving time.
The First Step Act overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week with not only bipartisan support from lawmakers, but also the support of a number of prominent evangelical Christians and institutions. And while the bill’s fate in the Senate is uncertain, the support it’s gotten from both sides of the aisle is already being counted... Continue Reading
“The New England Watch and Ward Society:” A Conversation with Author P.C. Kemeny
The New England Watch and Ward Society is an exploration of mainline Protestant efforts to provide a unifying morality for American public culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ridicule, or to use Friedrich Nietzsche’s term, ressentiment, played a crucial role in the demise of the Watch and Ward Society. In his landmark study, To Change the World (2010), sociologist James Davison Hunter argues that ressentiment is the defining characteristic of American political life today. Ressentiment is grounded in a narrative of injury, or perceived injury, in which people have been... Continue Reading
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