Christianity Today Publishes Article Defending Theistic Evolution
Where Did We Come From? by Andrew J. Wilson, an English pastor and author, presents a disarming article in favor of theistic evolution
But he is not alone in these dubious observations. He brings out big names to validate his version of theistic evolution: “John Stott, Derek Kidner, J. I. Packer, Tim Keller, and Francis Collins have all more or less taken the same approach.” He could add PCA minister, Dr. Choong, to the list as well. ... Continue Reading
How a Pastor Built a Multi-Million Dollar Home
Questions over Steven Furtick's new house
Elevation Church has asked volunteers and employees alike to sign a confidentiality agreement, which threatens to sue if volunteers and members disclose church finances. “If Steven Furtick’s followers in the congregation at Elevation want to pay him these outlandish salaries and want to allow him to live in multi-million dollar homes, that’s up to them,”... Continue Reading
Marvin Pagdett Named Executive Director of Great Commission Publications
Great Commission Publications is a joint partnership ministry of the PCA and OPC
The Board of Great Commission Publications (GCP) announced that Rev. Marvin Padgett has been called as its new Executive Director. Meeting on October 28, 2013, the GCP Board approved the recommendation of the search committee to hire Padgett as Executive Director. Padgett had been serving as interim Director during the search process. The former Executive... Continue Reading
Homeless Mother Who Sent Six-Year-Old Son to Better School in the Wrong Town Jailed for Five Years
Police said McDowell stole $15,686 worth of 'free' educational services from Norwalk.
McDowell’s lawyer, Darnell Crosland, said she agreed to accept a plea bargain rather than continue fighting the charges even though she insists she is not guilty. Mr Crosland said: ‘You shouldn’t be arrested for stealing a free education. It’s just wrong.’ A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the... Continue Reading
Replacing Sunday Mornings
Where we went when we stopped going to church... and why we came back.
At the finish line, people we didn’t know cheered for us madly. They held up their hands to meet our sweaty palms, and for the first time that we can remember, we feel like the victors that the pastors always promised we were. There has been lots of talk lately about the millennials leaving... Continue Reading
Mark Driscoll vs John MacArthur: Battle of the Self-Promoting Calvinists
Both are self promoters, love to attack others, yet call themselves humble men of God.
Ironically, this whole incident highlights another similarity between Driscoll and MacArthur: besides both being relentless self-promoters who make their names by loudly denouncing others, they also hate when people call them out as self-promoters who loudly denounce others, preferring to be known as quiet, humble men of God who love and respect their enemies –... Continue Reading
American Atheists sue over naturally made Ground Zero Cross
Unfortunately David Silverman and his group do not seem to understand that this case is not about religion, but about a historical artifact.
American Atheists and David Silverman may claim that “[t]his case is… not about the elimination of religion…,” but it is, and more. To demand that the Cross be removed rejects, even attempts to re-write, history. It also takes away a symbol of comfort for many who have been touched by the power of the Cross.... Continue Reading
Ben Haden, 88, Longtime Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Called Home to Glory
Dr. Ben Haden, 88, called home to glory on October 24, 2013
Dr. Haden, a former Kingsport, Tenn., newspaperman, came to Christ in midlife. After sensing a call to the gospel ministry, Haden attended Columbia Theological Seminary, graduating in 1963. He was called to serve as pastor of Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church in Miami, Fla. In 1967, Dr. Haden was called to be the 11th senior pastor... Continue Reading
The ‘X’ Factor: What Really Makes a Pastor Spiritually Mature
There's great danger in mistaking knowledge, busyness, and skill with personal spiritual maturity
It’s important to recognize that many people in ministry have been seduced by self-glory and lost sight of the glory of God. Not all people in ministry do their work out of a humble sense of their own need. Ministries derail because leaders begin to think they’ve arrived and don’t do the protective things they... Continue Reading
I’m Done Fixing the Church: Turning the Future Over to God
A major reason for our misguided attempts to fix the church is a misunderstanding of our role as clergy
Looking at my role in this vision, I find myself discovering more and more there is no place for my feeble attempts to fix the church; rather, God is calling me to be faithful to the role of spiritual leader. Now more than ever, the church needs faithful pastors who are willing to be spiritual... Continue Reading
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