See here, where you can read about more supporters of women’s ministries: Some Christians think that only people who have a “loose approach to scripture” can believe that women should be leaders and teachers in the church. I strongly doubt that any evangelical Christian would regard these scholars and theologians as having a loose approach to scripture, and yet each of them believes that appropriately gifted women should be leaders and teachers in the church. Here is a sample of... Read more
Unless you are European — German, Danish, Scandinavian — the Lutheran theory of church and politics may well be the least known in detail when it comes to how the church relates to the political dimension of life. The most discussed theories today — at least in my circles — is the Kuyperian and its various forms, the Anabaptist, and at times the Roman Catholic view. In Five Views of the Church and Politics, Robert Benne takes on the Lutheran... Read more
By Michelle Van Loon: We’re a generation removed from the Jesus Movement of the late 1960′s and the Rapture still hasn’t happened despite astonishing certainty about when we could expect it on the part of some of the most influential voices of the era. Hal Lindsey had the timetable of the Lord’s return all figured out in his influential 1970 book,The Late Great Planet Earth and Earnest Angley’s 1950 tome, Raptured, was the Left Behind of the day. Angley’s book, which a friend and I took to calling... Read more
By Donald H. Yee: On Monday night, college football will crown a new champion. In the process, a lot of money will be made. No matter who wins, the University of Alabama’s Southeastern Conference and Clemson University’s Atlantic Coast Conference will be paid $6 million each. So will the conferences of the schools those teams beat to make it to the final. The organization that runs the playoff, a Delaware-headquartered corporation that’s separate from the NCAA, takes in about $470 million each year... Read more
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. BCP Read more
The president of the other Wheaton says it well: In our nation’s public K-through-12 schools, educators offer programs for students to combat the bullying that marginalizes those who are different in some way. Yet we continue to tolerate and sometimes cheer this type of behavior as adults. It’s time to demand better from each other. It is up to each of us to revive and advance the once-respected notion that it is unacceptable for members of a civil society to... Read more
Source Are you a visual learner who writes notes in a rainbow of different colors, or do you have to read something aloud before it will sink it? Chances are, you’ve been asked a similar question at some point in your life, and believe the concept of different “learning styles” is perfectly valid. But, as New York magazine reports, the idea that students learn differently depending on their personal preference for visual, auditory or kinesthetic queues is just a myth. In... Read more
Vainglory: the forgotten vice By John Frye Is there a soft contradiction in Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount? In Matthew 5:16 Jesus says, “In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” It’s clear Jesus has visible good deeds in mind as a definition of light. We’re to do good works for others to see. Yet, in Matthew 6:1 Jesus says, “Be careful... Read more
Sean Palmer is Lead Minister at The Vine Church in Temple, TX. Read more from Sean at The Palmer Perspective (www.thepalmerperspective.com), follow him on Twitter: @seanpalmer or follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/seanpalmerwriter. In a time of resolutions and goal setting, God may not care about your success. Yeah. It’s possible. God might not only want your goals to falter, you may need them to! It’s good to have goals. Each year my wife and I set aside a few... Read more
Mark Suster: At the end of his examples, he writes more personally. I have no solutions for you, today. I’m not writing to propose new social policies or fix our nations woes. Income inequality exists. There will always be inequality – even in systems that favor communism or socialism. Democracy, it is said, is the worst form of government, except for everything else. But I have to say, it is absolutely tone deaf to try and pretend like Silicon Valley or... Read more
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