Category Archives: Christianity & Church
Prophet, Priest or King?
My friend and pastor Brooks just made an entry on his blog about Prophets, Priests and Kings. I began writing a response in the comments, but it started getting lengthy. I thought it might be worthwhile to instead post it here, with the intention that it will give some context to everything else I write.
If [...]
Consequences, pt. 3: Christian Opportunists
I wasn’t old enough to understand much of what went on at the time, but when I was a kid our church sent a missionary to Ireland. I remember how a few years after he was commended, he was suddenly the topic of a lot of conversations between my parents and other people from church, [...]
Faith, pt. 2: Kenosis
The poem in Philippians 2 is the key to everything:
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled [...]
Faith, pt. 1: Objections
If I doubted my faith, it wouldn’t be due to scientific evidence or philosophical reasoning. The most compelling arguments against my faith are the practical ones, the arguments based on things that can be observed rather than those that can be reasoned.
Christianity is a last resort for desperate people. Most high-profile conversions, like Brian Welch [...]
Christian Revolutionaries
A couple of weeks ago, George Barna put out what his group calls the 12 Most Significant Religious Findings from 2006 Surveys. One of these findings, which came out on March 6 of this year, details what he calls the “Christian Revolutionary” movement. Visit the link to read up on the full story, but to [...]
I’d Join a Movement If There Was One I Could Believe In
I got the chance to study the emerging church movement during my last year at Emmaus. I had never really heard much of it before then, but it seemed that a lot of my classes dealt with it in some capacity, and I ended up doing a lot of research and reading a few books [...]
The Cross and the Sword
A SUMMARY OF MY MAIN POINTS:
STEP ONE. Read this. (one page PDF, big text)
STEP TWO. Download these, OR
STEP THREE. Read this.
THE WORDS:
I’m not much for shout-outs or referrals, because I prefer putting out original content rather than links to other stuff, but I am going to make an exception. I think this is something that [...]
They Will Know
“They will know we are Christians by our love”, no.
They will know we are Christians by our voting.
They will know we are Christians by our t-shirts.
They will know we are Christians by our self-righteousness.
They will know we are Christians by our outspokenness on issues of national morality.
They will know we are Christians by our lemming-like [...]
Den of Thieves
If Jesus went to a megachurch, would he fashion a whip and drive out the Starbucks for charging 4.00 for a frappuccino?
On Church and Its Conduction
At what precise moment does a group of Christians who meet regularly become a gathering of the church? What are the bare minimum requirements for a church to exist?
Let me define something before we pick up steam: by “church”, unless I specify “universal church”, I mean the individual church gathering. Yes, I know that the [...]
