Infuriating, Inspiring, Challenging and Provocative Links for Your Enjoyment and Growth

April 27, 2012

Weekend Links Lots of links! Some that are not to be missed. You mileage may vary, but I found these articles alternately challenging, convicting, upsetting, and inspiring. I include them. I don’t necessarily endorse them all. Engaging Culture Ray Comfort’s Controversial Movie Comparing Abortion and Hitler Saving Lives (Christian News Wire) Federal Workers Paid Nearly … More Infuriating, Inspiring, Challenging and Provocative Links for Your Enjoyment and Growth

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The Material You Use for Discipleship is Immaterial

April 26, 2012

Making Better Disciples A church planter wrote me last week and asked about the material we use for discipleship. Two weeks ago, another church planter asked me a similar question. Earlier this year, I had a conversation with a church staff member of a significant church about how the church they serve does new believer … More The Material You Use for Discipleship is Immaterial

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An Intense Purposefulness: Where is it?

April 26, 2012

Thursday is for Discipleship “My hour has not yet come.”   (John 2:4) “My time is not yet here”   (John 7:6) “My time has not yet fully come.”   (John 7:8) “His hour had not yet come.”   (John 7:30) “His hour had not yet come.”   (John 8:20)   “Jesus, knowing his hour had come.”   (John 13:1)   … More An Intense Purposefulness: Where is it?

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Does Conversion Always Produce a Change of Affection and Behavior?

April 24, 2012

Making Better Disciples J.D. Greear, who I have much respect for, had a post the other day that I had a slight disagreement with. The post was titled, “Am I Really Saved?”  He shared how a mentor had helped to settle in his mind that he really had believed in Christ by directing his heart … More Does Conversion Always Produce a Change of Affection and Behavior?

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Christians Have Pickled Themselves in the American Dream

April 22, 2012

Monday is for Discussion The churches of America are weak, spiritually anemic, prayerless, biblically illiterate, apathetic about personal holiness and unengaged with their neighbors at any meaningful level. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the stark reality is that we are almost irrelevant in effecting change of our culture toward godliness despite our numbers. We … More Christians Have Pickled Themselves in the American Dream

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The Myth of Cohabitation — The Slow Crawl to Destruction

April 21, 2012

The Myths of Cohabitation  (From Kairos Journal) Traditional marriage is on the rocks in the West, and not just because of the influence of the homosexual activist community and the introduction of so-called gay marriage. Heterosexuals are also to blame for marriage’s bad press. Since the 1960s and 70s, heterosexual cohabitation outside of marriage has skyrocketed. In … More The Myth of Cohabitation — The Slow Crawl to Destruction

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