Category Church Chew

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…

I ran across an excellent website on Tuesday that I wanted to promote. Biblical Training has been formed with the express purpose of equipping believers with tools from great Bible teachers to express and communicate their faith in today’s culture.…

In these happy days of fall football, I came across Tim Challies’ Fantasy Church entry. Love it.

There’s a really good, perhaps simplistic, but good description of the emerging church and its leaders here. Many thanks to Craig for ferreting this out. In addition, Dan Phillips has some insightful, if not abrasive, posts about the notion of…

If you’ve been wanting to understand better the dialogue and critiques of the emerging church movement, spend about 40 minutes on Scott McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog reading these articles: Emerging And Orthodoxy (8/14/2006) Emerging And Orthodoxy 2 (8/15/2006) Emerging And…

Wade Burleson smacks one out of the park over at Grace and Truth.

In this day of Diet Coke, Diet Snapple, Diet This & That, we also have Diet Preachers. These are guys who refrain from preaching "the whole counsel of God." They are all about wealth, health, happiness, goodness, and stuffed animals.…

I’m really excited about the upcoming Marriage & Parenting Weekend and wanted to enlist your help in spreading the word. If you’re going to be around Monticello the last weekend of this month, and are married or have children, this…

The 2006 Babe Ruth World Series (16 year-old) is in Monticello for the next week. As our church prayed and deliberated on how to minister and serve the community and guests in the best way, Ryan, our small groups pastor,…