Christian Shock Treatment: Brian McLaren
I’ve been reading Brian McLaren’s new book, A New Kind of Christianity for the past couple of months. My intent is to share some thoughts on what I’ve been reading in a series of posts after I’m done with the book. However, this could not wait.
I Think I Understand Why So Many People Hate Christianity
I don’t know where this guy gets this stuff! Yet again, Pat Robertson is back in the news with some more insane reasoning behind why we suffer major catastrophes.
This is a Sucky Time to be Single
We are full swing into the Christmas season. I was having a conversation with someone a little while ago musing about the large numbers of commercials on TV promoting family and marriage and how these affect single people who are either eager to get married or who are depressed because they aren’t.
The Virtual Preacher – Part 2
Check out part 1 of this series first.
And this brings me to the point of this article. The virtual preacher has become the defacto standard for church growth problems. Whenever a church gets too big, the assumption is that the church should go multi-site (as opposed to just planting a new church) with the pastors sermon piped in through a live video feed.
Today I Asked God to Support My Adultery
How would you feel if your husband or wife was using money from your bank account to fund their adultery? If you would be pretty upset about it then you probably know what James is getting at in this verse.
Pastor to Microsoft, “Your stock tumbled because you support gays”
WOW. When I read this I could not believe it. Pastor Ken Hutcherson, who I assume is a Microsoft shareholder, spoke at the shareholders meeting yesterday in Redmond had some pretty insightful things to say to Steve Ballmer.
