The ancient people of God no less than the first Christians lived their lives in a pluralistic world. In fact, it is only recently that we have come to a place, where after generations of having it “our way” more or less, in a kind of Western, modern, Judeo-Christian ghetto (from a more global perspective), …
Category Archives: Church
WHY WE MUST REFUSE TO BE ANGRY
We live in an angry world, both inside and outside of the church. Everywhere you look or listen people seethe and smolder over the many things that displease them. Church people rage against the culture, of course. But also against each other whose differing views of the culture and how to respond to its …
GOD WANTS A “PENTECOSTAL” CHURCH
God wants the church more “Pentecostal.” The world needs the church more “Pentecostal.” And, we will never be more than a faint shadow of “church” until we ourselves become way-more “Pentecostal.” Thus, I am praying and hoping the church becomes more “Pentecostal.” If I wrote this 40 years ago, I wouldn’t be writing it now. …
PRAYING FOR AUTHORITIES “MISSIONALLY”
One of the most blatant and common ways Bible-believing people sin is when they (we/I) fail to pray for governing authorities. The Apostle Paul urges, as a matter of priority, to pray for kings and all in authority (1 Tim. 2:1-2). Later in the same passage he says, “I want the men everywhere to pray, …
Risen From The Book!
Does Easter make a difference? Did the flurry and frenzy of Holy Week activity become an expression of the power that raises the dead? Or was it more like a Memorial Day weekend? Was it only that we recalled the One who made the supreme sacrifice for which we will always be thankful, but which …