Meditated on this passage from my reading today: As Dirk [Philips] writes, authentic brotherly love in the true congregation of God is demonstrated in the ways “that we minister to each other with a willingly extended hand, not only with the spiritual, but also with the temporal gifts which we have received from God.” (Biesecker-Mast, [...]
Here's my official, just over 200 word book review for John MacArthur's "The Jesus You Can't Ignore." I was walking through it chapter by chapter, but it was such a chore to get through the book and I just needed to be done with it that I tore through the rest and produced the final summary.
Here's my book review of Frank Viola's "Reimagining Church." An excellent book, and exceptional challenges.
Chapter three began with the presumption of the problem I discussed in chapter 2. Author John MacArthur again presented the timing of his first cleansing of the temple event as vital to the setting for when Nicodemus came to Jesus in secret. But the initial problem can be set aside for his subsequent commentary on [...]
Walking through John MacArthur's "The Jesus You Can't Ignore." Here I touch on issues in chapter 2.
I’ve received the book The Jesus You Can’t Ignore: What You Must Learn From the Bold Confrontations of Christ by John MacArthur to review. When I am done with the book (which, at the current rate, will be soon), I’ll provide a summary review. But, as I was going through the early part of the [...]
A church in Alabama, impacted by the BP oil disaster, is filing a claim for compensation. According to this article, Pastor Dan Brown prays BP PLC comes up with a solution quickly: He said he filed a $50,000 claim last month over lost revenues at Anchor Assembly of God. His small, storefront church outlived Hurricane [...]
Around this time of year (early July) here in the US, patriotism and nationalism tends to increase. Understandable. Plus, this is the time when the Stars and Stripes decorate church buildings, inside and out. And, for many congregations, the worship service will include, usually toward the beginning, a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and [...]
The Ergun Caner saga trudges along, like an Ernest Shackleton expedition into the cold, dark places no one wants to go; but, face it, we have to. Recently, Liberty University released their official statement following their investigation into the problematic, contradictory stories Dr. Caner has been telling (in the school, in various churches, during interviews, to different [...]
At least that’s what John H. Yoder liked to call it. Behind the simple claim that only violence is effective, there is a power of deception deeper than mere illogic. One of its most extreme forms is what I have called the “King-Che discrepancy.” The thought pattern is widespread. I was first struck by it [...]
