Sunday, December 28, 2008

Wesleys used bar tunes?

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No . A music adviser for the United Methodist Church has set out to puncture the "myth" that John and Charles Wesley, the brother...
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Even life itself must be secondary!

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"China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women … The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, ...

Atheist decides Africa needs God!

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Atheist decides, disbelief or not, Africa needs God. http://tinyurl.com/8awby2
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Five reasons Muslims convert

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Some good info here. A survey of 750 Muslims who converted to Christianity shows five predominant reasons they chose to follow Christ. Th...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Bifurcation can be such an unholy word

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"It is not a matter of engaging in both the gospel and social action, as if Christian social action was something separate from the gos...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Last song on the lips of John Wesley

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This hymn by Isaac Watts (1714) was on Wesley's lips when he died: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, and when my voice is ...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Questions to ask to stay spiritually sharp

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In the middle of the twentieth century the Christian Business Men's Committee urged each other to confront themselves with these questio...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Performing Orthodoxy

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Action-provoking article from CT. The reason Christians need to read The Hermeneutics of Doctrine is because of Thiselton's argument t...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Spiritual warfare and the mission field

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Just attended a forum today where eight current and former missionaries were asked, among other things, about spiritual warfare. This is wh...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

When Muslims convert...

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From 1991 to 2007, Fuller Theological Seminary's School of Intercultural Studies conducted a survey among 750 Muslims who had converted...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Good advice from Fulton Sheen?

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Richard John Neuhaus in First Things seems to think so: A priest on Long Island tells me that, when he was newly ordained, he had the chanc...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Preaching that melts...

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From George Whitefield's Journal: Tuesday, November 27, 1739 - ...I preached from a balcony to above six thousand people. God strengthe...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Why we don't make disciples

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1. Our world view is all wrong. "Be holy as I am holy" is not a core conviction. 2. We prefer the things that are "more ex...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

A third group of growing churches...

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This from GROW magazine, a publication of the Nazarenes: For many years, our Research Center has known that new churches and large churches ...

Progress!

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"It took 18 centuries for dedicated believers to grow from 0% of the world's population to 2.5% in 1900, only 70 years to grow from...
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Disparity of the gospel (World Christian Encyclopedia)

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Cost per baptism: Africa 13,888 Antartica 1,677,852 Asia ...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Quotable

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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals,...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Understanding Mike Huckabee using Explo '72

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Hmm . Had a sister who was there. I bet all this really sounds strange to Inside the Beltway Supply Side Conservatives. My favorite parag...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Church shifting...

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Church shift? If your church ain't doing this...then get shifting.... "We need to change the way church is done in this country. We...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

State of the Church

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The Condition of the Church in America Complied by Andy McAdams 1. 1,400 pastors in America leave the ministry monthly. 2. L...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

Beijing Olympics bans Bible

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Here . And I still think the US should boycott the whole thing.
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Friday, October 26, 2007

D'Souza - "What so great about Christianity?"

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Good .
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Coulter's remarks could have used some "perfecting"

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"Coulter's remarks are outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries-old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism," ...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

History of religion in...90 seconds!

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Oh, my.
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Confused about masculinity?

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I have been in on a few discussions just recently about what a “real man” is. I have jokingly offered that here in the Deep South I am no...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Faith-based prisons...it is what's workin'!

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Go, Colson !
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Guidelines for churches/pastors politically

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A lot of leeway for pastors. Good.

Perspectives on various faiths

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From the Pastor's Weekly Briefing (H.B. London) Most Americans will say they know little or nothing about the practices of Islam an...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

The "religious" are more happy

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Here . How do religious Americans compare to the secular when it comes to happiness? In 2004, the General Social Survey asked a sample of Am...
Friday, September 28, 2007

The benefits of religion

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Medved is a Jew, but argues a couple of simple points even the skeptic would have to agree with...if he was actually trying to be fair.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Pastors and porn

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This is bad . And why? According to many Christian groups, pornography is a disturbing and increasing problem. A Promise Keepers survey fou...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Christianity losing reputation with younger generation

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New from Barna : As the nation’s culture changes in diverse ways, one of the most significant shifts is the declining reputation of Chr...

Ideas to impact your public schools this year

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Good stuff .

Six worldviews you are competing against

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The folks in the pew come with assumptions. Best to know what they are. From Rick Warren.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Some interesting resources

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Speaking of Faith speakingoffaith.publicradio.org Among religion journalists, Krista Tippett is the equivalent of Terry Gross on National P...

Living biblically?

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So, a guy writes a volume titled The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempts to follow all the rules of the Bible, from the famou...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Calvinistic response to compassionate ministry

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Good article : Far from being hindered by theology, the ministry of mercy is furthered by theology, properly understood. Consider the st...
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Monday, September 10, 2007

Heroes - who will they be?

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How about opening up this question to the listeners: The passing away of Rev. Falwell, Rev. Adrian Rogers and, most recently, Rev. D. James...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

Sigh. Imprecatory prayer teaching rears its ugly head.

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Calling down God's wrath or love. Which do you think is more powerful? Check it out . Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

It's a thought

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The atheistic onslaught of late

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Blasphemy is a tribute to God? Brilliant, in its own way. Check out this great article by Michael Gerson in the WashPost. British au...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

Difference between evangelicals and church-going evangelicals

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Wish the pollsters would change their research methodologies. It would make a difference. Not all evangelicals attend church, for instance...
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Church and homosexual funerals

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I can imagine this comes with issues that aren't as easy as covering the event with "Of course, we'll do the funeral for a gay ...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

The unevangelist - "Jesus was a fag"

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How are we to conduct ourselves in the face of such, uh, revelation ?
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Finally, your dream pastor

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Don Lawrence preaches three times a week to an appreciative congregation at Life Baptist church. His sermon tapes often s...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Sex and the Evangelical Teen - good grief!

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From Gene Edward Veith over at World . We are the world! We are the children! Christian parents and churches need to face up to a pro...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

Proud atheists, unite!

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Read Richard Dawkins' Introduction to The Out Campaign here Atheists have always been at the forefront of rational thinking and beac...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Evangelistic smackdown quote of the day

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"Every man needs reconversion at forty on general principles! Because at forty we settle down, begin to lose that sense of spiritual ex...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

My kind of atheism

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Hattip: http://arbevere.blogspot.com/
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Low Bible, low church

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Insight from one of my online students this summer: I was in a church of a main line denomination last February in East Dayton , OH . The c...