Deep calls to Deep – A New Kind of Christian asks “How old does something? have to be to be considered traditional?……Traditions can be a few years old, as some of our family Christmas traditions are, such as opening stockings on the bed, or they can stretch back several thousand years. An awful lot of traditions that we hold to though simply stretch back a few generations or a few hundred years, but have become in the minds of us... Read more
Its important to pause for a moment before you hit the delete key. As you can guess when I first saw this in my email box I was conviced it was yet another hoax alert. It isn’t. We CAN do something about it. BBC2 plans to broadcast Jerry Springer’s “The Opera”, immediately after Christmas. This musical, notorious for containing over 8000 expletives, depicts the characters of Jesus, Mary and God as self-centred sexual deviants who give and receive extreme verbal... Read more
Wittenberg Gate: “As the death toll climbs from the Asian tsunami disaster, it is approaching the average daily world-wide death toll. Using the figures published by the CIA, found here, for world population and the annual death rate, I calculated that approximately 56.5 million people die every year, 4.7 million every month, and almost 155 thousand every day. The figures are staggering. Every minute 108 people meet the Maker in whose image they were made. Day in and day out... Read more
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Back last April Christianity Magazine did a good article critiquing the drive to close down congregations and replcace them with “emerging church” structures. They described Key Insights of the emergents many of which are valid, but they also listed concerns which could be aired. KEY INSIGHTS 1. That most churches have moved away from the pioneering spirit of the early church to be focused on set meetings. 2. Many Christians find commitment to church activities leaves no time or energy... Read more
In a letter from the heart Joel Edwards says of Steve Chalke– Firstly, I am not convinced that Steve really has answered the plethora of key biblical texts dealing with the relationship between wrath, judgement and punishment. (Isaiah 53:1-11 and Romans 5:8-11 and the book of Hebrews for starters.) Apart from the concept of punishment, what can it possibly mean to say “the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,”? (Isa 53:5) These passages simply cannot be waved away... Read more
Thanks to Earnestly Contending for this: “It’s better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude” – (Quote of the Day): “‘It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. Let me tell you something, friend, it is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the... Read more
i used to believe has a massive selection of quotes like these which make for a humour injection:- “My daughter once asked if God was short for Godfrey” Read more
As terrible as the Tsunami was, it is far from being the only cause of suffering in today’s world. Reading this post Zimbabwe – A Year in Review made me wish there was something we could do to help Zimbabwe. The thing that got me most was the statement that life expectency had dropped to just 1.5 years older than me! Of course as there are no journalists allowed into Zimbabwe except for cricket matches we cant know if that... Read more
Building Bridges interviews Dan Kimball the author of the books “The Emerging Church and Emerging Worship. Dan says “it is absolutely thrilling to see how God is moving among emerging leaders to rethink what ‘church’ is. I see a lot of community being formed among emerging leaders, and a lot of healthy and much needed discussion. This is so refreshing as it helps leaders not feel alone and not feel crazy. To see new communities of faith being birthed is... Read more
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