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March 2015

March 06, 2015

Closing a Church (John Frye)

The Closing of a Church, by John Frye Last Sunday the local church where I...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Is it Really a Church You’re Leaving (Sean Palmer)

Is It Really A Church You’re Leaving? (by Sean Palmer) Sean Palmer is Lead Minister...

February 09, 2015

Sameness Not Needed for Connection

Cindy Brandt: To sum up: I was Chinese, converted to Christianity, living in Taiwan, practicing...

February 07, 2015

South Carolina Anglicans

Source: A conservative breakaway Anglican diocese in the US has won a court battle to...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

Church Workers Need a New Target [other than numbers] (by Jeff Cook)

Church Workers Need a New Target Life requires replication. If something does not replicate, its...

January 16, 2015

On Losing Faith

In one of the better memoirs I've read, that of Roger Scruton called Gentle Regrets,...

January 06, 2015

Paul and the Economic Justice Vision of Jesus

It is not uncommon to wonder if the apostle Paul somehow dropped the concern of...

January 05, 2015

Good News about the Church: Integration

Yes, that's right. Look at this clip from England --article by John Bingham: Maybe 11am...

January 04, 2015

You Don’t Get to Choose Who…

... is part of your church. You fellowship with the ones you're with, and hence......

January 02, 2015

Pope Francis, Jesus and the Church

Source, Vatican Insider: Francis calls for ‘peace in hearts, peace in families, peace among the...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Brad Brisco — “Stand and Greet”

Brad Brisco: This past week I posted a short excerpt from a Thom Rainer article where he...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

The Biggest Mistake in Kingdom Talk

The most common mistake I hear when people are talking about kingdom is comparison talk....

November 16, 2014

The Rise of the Dones

Thom Schultz: At Group’s recent Future of the Church conference, sociologist Josh Packard shared some of his...

November 06, 2014

Three Problems for Politicizing a Local Church

Let's agree with a general observation: evangelicals churches tend toward Republican politics while the mainline...

November 03, 2014

Expecting Less, Discovering the More

The more we expect from our local church or the church universal the less we...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Are Singles in the Church Family?

From Claire Bonner, in Mutuality (Autumn, 2014): 15-17. Mutuality is a publication of the Christians for Biblical...

October 28, 2014

When Worship becomes Formative

There is a lot of chatter today about the formative dimension of church worship. One...

October 24, 2014

Reformation Revived in Disillusionment

At the heart of European Protestant theology's revolutionary developments in the 20th Century was the...

October 22, 2014

The Bible’s Special Word about Singleness

In his opening editorial to Mutuality [Autumn 2014, p. 3], Tim Kruger cites this set of lines...

October 20, 2014

If They Ask for My Sermons, I’ll Give Them All to Them (Allan Bevere)

From my friend, Allan Bevere: In an unprecedented move, the city government of Houston, Texas...

October 16, 2014

Where is the kingdom?

D. Bonhoeffer, Christmas Night sermon, 25 December 1940 (DBW 16.616). It is no longer a...

October 09, 2014

What’s Coming for the Church? This, for sure

Bob Smietana: For a look at the future of the church in America, it’s time...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Which Topic Draws the Least Discussion on this Blog?

Race. If you are tempted to move to another post or website because of that...

September 03, 2014

Has the Church been Secularized?

There is a theory, called the secularization theory, that says the church has gradually surrendered...

September 01, 2014

AlAnon, Sacraments, and the Church (by T)

AA, Sacraments and Ecclesiology (by T) This is the third post in our series looking...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Leave a Church You Love? (by Jarrod Robinson)

Why Would You Ever Leave a Church You Love? (by Jarrod Robinson, Southern Hills Church...

August 11, 2014

Parachurch or the Church? And the Church? In the Church

Source: Peter Greer (@peterkgreer) is president and CEO of HOPE International. Chris Horst (@chrishorst) is the...

August 03, 2014

Pray for the Iraqi Christians Today

Source: Iraq’s Christians trace their history to the first century apostles Thomas and Thaddeus. Most...

August 03, 2014

Asylum in France

Source: Iraqi Christians forced out of their city after a serious death threat from Islamic...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Starting Anew in Manchester

Solomon's temple in Brazil, re-purposing churches into gyms in Quebec, and starting afresh in Manchester...