Jan 22, 2010
Who Will Be King Over Us?
Dec 29, 2009
Gnostic Christianity
Nov 5, 2009
A Christian Against "Christianity"
Sep 20, 2009
Where Do We Worship?
Sep 17, 2009
I'm Right, You're Wrong
Sep 5, 2009
Irenaeus on Faith and The Church
Aug 22, 2009
TRUTH!
Aug 17, 2009
Questions That Only You Can Answer
One thing that is central to modern philosophies of ministry is that we must offer enough ministries in our local Churches to keep all of our members "plugged in". Modern pastors are scared to death that their members will get bored and go across town to the hip Church with all of the cool ministries that will keep everyone from 'little jr'. to grandma occupied and entertained. ....................phooey!
Someone asked me a question once that really impacted me and the way I evaluate the Christian life (both individually and corporately). It's one of those questions that, I am convinced, is foundational to checking ourselves to make sure our focus is right as Christians. It's foundational to and absolutely necessary for real contentment in the Christian life. And I want to share it with you.
Ready? ........
If everything you have come to know and love about life in the local Church was stripped away, ... (all of the programs: Sunday school, choir, committee meetings, building programs, children's church, VBS, ladies this, men's that, teen whatever.) ... if all of the 'stuff' we do "at Church" was to disappear or be taken away ....................... would Christ alone be enough for you? Would you be content or would you go looking for another Church that had all of the stuff?
Think about this question and be honest with yourself.
Wade
Aug 11, 2009
How Many Churches are There?
".... And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church;..."
I recite this every week along with brothers and sisters at the local congregation where we worship and commune with the one true and living God. And every week I'm a little saddened when it comes time to say this part of the Creed.
Our 'individualistic' tendencies don't just involve the individual. We exhibit a type of individualism when we think of our local congregation or our denomination as "the Church" and fail to properly discern the whole body of Christ.
We can say we believe in "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" all we want, but until we start living it we don't really believe it!
Wade
Jul 25, 2009
The Flock, The whole Flock and Nothing but The Flock
Jul 20, 2009
Jul 15, 2009
WHAT is 'The Gospel'?
Jul 7, 2009
Marks Of The Modern "Evanjellyfish"
Jul 6, 2009
Community
Jul 4, 2009
Happy 4th of July
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. ..."
So what should we say to those who claim that "God should be kept out of government"?