Jesus Is Lord : The Greatest Christian Lie?
The proclamation of the “gospel” has often failed to emphasize a fundamental element of the teaching of Jesus, and indeed, of orthodox Christian doctrine: “Jesus is Lord” is a radical claim, one that...
View Article“I Am The King of the World…,” Part One
“I am the king of the world…” – Jack Dawson (Titanic), myself, and other church leaders “The Lord can certainly raise up for Himself another laborer to complete his work.” -Michael Sattler I want to...
View ArticleThe Church, the State, and Gay Marriage
“Debate on “church and state” or “the church and secular vocations” has gone on for ages, as if the issue were the relationship between two administrative hierarchies or between two segments of a...
View ArticleReimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part One)
My wife is an educator so we’ve often discussed how obscene it can be that the Sunday sermon is aimed at one particular learning style (auditory/audial) and largely neglects the rest. And it takes up...
View ArticleReimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part Two)
In my last post I offered some great quotes from “Flipping the 40-Minute Sermon” by Karen E. Yates and today I want to think through some implications of the ideas she’s pointed out. This post will...
View ArticleReimagining the Worship Gathering: The Sermon (Part Three)
Today’s post will conclude this series on reimagining the sermon and will only make sense if you’ve read Part One and Part Two. I’ll continue to structure today’s post with a few statements on what our...
View ArticleA Brief Statement of Faith (and Works)
This beautiful and challenging “statement of faith” was among the responses at last night’s gathering of the Atlanta Mennonite Fellowship. It is an extract from a larger writing of Meno Simmons, the...
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