Missionary Pastor in a Pagan Culture
the ministry of the church is different than the mission of the church
View ArticleWho and Where We Are
Greetings from the middle of America, dear reader, where we have been visited once again by tiny aliens from the sky. They come in pieces and they have the power to cause humans to drive horribly and...
View ArticleWhat is Wrong and What is the Solution?
Today I want to revisit N.T. Wright’s four questions that serve as boundary markers for the Christian worldview. Here’s what I wrote in my last post Who and Where We Are: In Wright’s New Testament and...
View ArticleObama, ISIS, Christianity, Comment and Question
Conservatives and Evangelicals nearly lost their minds when, on February 5 at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama drew a moral equivalency between the ISIS beheadings and burnings of those ISIS...
View ArticleBe Radically Ordinary for Christ
Why do we buy books like Radical? I believe the reason is that we secretly seek significance and we feel we should be doing way more than we are. We feel that to be “radical” for Christ means we have...
View ArticleInstitutional Back Sliding: The Slippery Slope
(This originally appeared in the Spring 2000 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 4) by Pastor Keith Graham The English language has a fine old family of words. One venerable member is...
View ArticleMinimizing God
Could it be that many who like to claim Christianity as their faith can only do so by minimizing God? In Christianity& Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Machen spends a fair amount of time...
View ArticleIdentity Wars: Christ and Culture
[Note: This article is Part 1 of a projected series.] Currently, a battle is being waged for the soul of my home denomination. In the theologically conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA),...
View ArticleSend in the Clowns?
It is painful to watch what seems to be the collapse of Western culture, including the serious degradation of our own country’s ideals and the descent into what can only be described as lawlessness....
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