Category Church Chew

There’s one book I know I’ll be purchasing upon its imminent release: The Discipline of Discernment. Written by the Tim Challies of challies.com, it will be addressing the naked emperor of American Christianity – naivete. Perhaps naivete is too innocent…

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. (Hebrews 13.7) Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men…

I just love it when someone else’s blog gets the heat for a while. After my post about the Southern Baptists and their love/hate relationship with private prayer languages generated such a flurry of comments, it’s been a relief to…

After my last referral to another blog generated some powerful discussion that elicited apologies from almost everyone (except Bill Clinton), I shudder to post a link to another blog. But heck. Here goes. Justin over at Radical Congruency comments that…

We are dying as a convention. So writes Wade Burleson, trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, in his blog Grace and Truth to you. While probably an engine of hyperbole, his observations and conclusions are…

I love Jerry’s commentary from a recent This Is That entry: If we cannot boldly confess Christ in our present “relatively unthreatening” circumstances, how do you think we might do in the face of much higher stakes?

This entry is long overdue. My love for and admiration of the people of Journey Church has always been somewhat understated and undercover. When we began the process of starting a new church in our community in 2003, I was…

Yet another study, this one completed in just the last month, shows that the evangelical church continues to hemorrhage internally. Churched youth are checking out of the church when they leave home for college, and many 20-somethings who were formerly…