Churches are constantly trying to come up with new and biblically faithful ways to engage their communities with the gospel. And let’s be honest, some ideas have been much better than others (I once attended a church magic show where the big draw was that the magician was going to turn the pastor into a […]
Loving Our Neighbors and Making Disciples: A Philosophy of Church-Community Engagement Read More »
There are legitimately challenging questions facing churches on what the biblical roles of women in the life of the church should be. While there are two “general” positions on the role of women (complementarian and egalitarian), the whole issue really exists on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum are egalitarians who believe that
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Harry Lee Poe’s three-part biography about the life of C.S. Lewis is a masterpiece. Poe writes with clarity and wit, and with an understated prose that seems to bring Clive Staples Lewis to life. In the third volume of his set, The Completion of C.S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945-1963), Poe covers the life of Lewis in
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I’m a little bit of a preaching nerd. I enjoy good preaching and rich sermons. I also get a little aggravated when it becomes clear that a preacher didn’t prepare well or doesn’t treat the preaching of the inerrant Word of God with the gravity that it deserves. I have also read a lot of preaching books.
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How do you place the suffering of the people of God into its proper historical context? Well, you begin by giving them the history behind their suffering. God had called a people to Himself out of Egypt.They had covenanted together. Yahweh would be their God, and they would be His people. But it didn’t take
