Every year, all over America, churches partake in a celebration of the State, the Fourth of July (you could throw in memorial day here too). You’ll see high flying flags and symbols of America and American power all over the various ‘sanctuaries’ and church buildings, you’ll see those little yard flags lining the parking lots, [...]
If you’ve read Pete Rollins‘ latest book, “The Orthodox Heretic, and other impossible tales,” then you’ll know how challenging that book can be mentally. There’s something powerful about Rollins use of parables to really mess with you, and really screw up your day. From the first parable on, there is plenty of challenging material there [...]
To recap: Pt 1: Worship Pt. 2: Apologetics Pt 3: Wave Making pt 4: (down with) Sola Scriptura! Today is the final day, Part Five: Remerging (into) Church. Towards the end of each post, I’ve given a reason (or two) in which the evangelical church can improve, I have not, however, really given any reason [...]
Pt 1: Worship. Pt 2: Apologetics. Pt 3: Wave Making Pt 4: Sola Scriptura! (by the way, if you know where that picture is from, then you spend too much time on sites that are bad for your health!) This is the only doctrinal reason that I find myself seeking separation from the evangelical church. [...]
Today’s post is on “Failure to be the change”, part one was on “Worship“, and part two was on “Apologetics” A few years ago I went to a Passion concert thingy. It was back when Louie Giglio was still the 7:22 guy, and Passion was a once a year thing. They had recorded this CD [...]
That’s right, I hereby declare this day, June 17th, “National Thank Your Commenter Day.” You guys are basically the life force that keep me blogging, carrying on the conversation to a level that I cannot do alone, you guys make my blog worth reading. Often times we don’t think about the commenting section as the [...]
Yesterday, I discussed a bit about our notion that music is the equivalency of worship, and how this has become a predominant belief (whether admitted or not) in church culture. I had a good conversation with a couple friends on that today, and they brought up some interesting points, which I’ll probably explore at a [...]
Authors note: There are two crowds I want to address before I start into this. The first crowd is much closer to “home” than the second, and in the same vein they’re more likely to read this than the second. To those that would bemoan this as covering the same ground, forgive me, as I [...]
This Tuesday, at 8:00 PM, several of us will be gathering at Johnnie MacCrackens in Marietta to explore the Parables of “The Orthodox Heretic” together. No need to have a copy of the book for the group, though you’ll certainly want one for yourself! Every third Tuesday after this, the group will meet and continue [...]
So, Becky and I don’t really get to see each other or talk very much right now, both of us have so much coursework to do and our work schedules don’t line up very well with each other, but we did have an interesting conversation the other night. I’ll put it up here as a [...]