From Jamie Bruesehoff: You are doing something really, really important. I know it’s not easy. I see you with your arms overflowing, and I know you came to church already tired. Parenting is tiring. Really tiring. I watch you bounce and sway trying to keep the baby quiet, juggling the infant car seat and the diaper bag as you find a seat. I see you wince as your child cries. I see you anxiously pull things out of your bag of tricks... Read more
By Michelle Van Loon (now a Northern student!) Since I started writing and speaking about midlifers’ changing relationship with the local church, various friends have pointed me toward a few churches who are making some sort of attempt to minister to their older congregants. As I learned when I offered my survey on the subject earlier this summer, many congregations don’t know what to do to nurture spiritual maturity in their “second adulthood” members beyond asking them to fill slots on... Read more
Malcolm Jeeves is a Christian, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews (one of the founders of the department), and of late he has been thinking and writing about the intersection of mind and brain and the relationship of the psychology and neuroscience with Christian faith and religious belief. His new book, Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience, takes a conversational to the issues that arise between the scientific study... Read more
Do you agree with this understanding of our responsibility before God and capacity? “Humanity was created by God to possess the responsibility for becoming what it wills to become by the sum total of the choices made during one’s lifetime. As such, God requires that humans beings choose (will) to act on the basis of their inner desires and therefore must freely decide what one “will” live for. What is chosen … determines what kind of persons we become… the development... Read more
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Geoff, teaching pastor at Life on the Vine Church and a colleague of mine at Northern Seminary, participates as well in Missio Alliance. The Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, Part 2 of 5 “It’s a test designed to provoke an emotional response…Describe only the good things that come to mind about your mother.” Leon Kowalski then stands up and blows away his interviewer because he has no memories of his mother. Leon is a replicant robot built for menial off-world tasks,... Read more
By Michelle Van Loon What do you have for wisdom in this area? The pastor’s wife leads the worship ministry at their small congregation. Or…the pastor’s son-in-law becomes the youth minister. It’s only natural that family members serve together at a local congregation, isn’t it? Even some of Jesus’ first disciples were brothers. The prayer and ideal is of families sharing an active, engaged faith. Wouldn’t the logical conclusion of this shared faith be shared ministry? Yes. And no. Did you... Read more
I liked this post by Jenell Paris, and you can go to the link to read the whole: “Being saved is about your whole life, and all the decisions you make each day. You can’t just rest on the fact that you prayed a certain prayer.” So said my childhood friend, now a mother of small children, when I asked whether she is teaching her children to become born-again in the way we were thirty years ago. I’m wondering how... Read more
Kris and I walk 2-3 miles every day, and my guess is 360 days per year we walk. How about you? by GenYMedium. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. Read more
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