
Church is Messy
I saw this posted at FideO and thought it was a good reminder for everyone looking for the perfect church.

I saw this posted at FideO and thought it was a good reminder for everyone looking for the perfect church.

More on the qualifications of elders by Thabiti at “Pure Church” (Well Thought of by Outsiders).

The following article by Michael Horton is posted at the Nine Marks Ministry site (I provide a link to Nine Marks on this blog). Dr. Horton is, I believe, one of the most thoughtful and challenging theolgians of his generation.…

The latest 9Marks newsletter is also online, focusing on the relationship between the church and the transformation of culture.


Thabiti continues his excellent study on the qualifications of elders (Mature and Humble).

This was posted at Christian Research Net. It’s a bit long but illustrates well why so many pulpits are impoverished. By abandoning the call to be shepherds of the Lord’s flock, pastors have also abandoned the long discipline of…

Evangelical churches are full of traditions that have become sacrosanct. But it was not so long ago that many of these practices were brand new and being openly challenged by thoughtful and theological men like Charles Spurgeon. There is no…

Driscoll offers some helpful thoughts on the tendency within evangelicalism to create a sub-culture that insulates from the messy world.

Presumably the blogosphere is already abuzz with warnings about The Golden Compass, a New Line Cinema production scheduled to open on December 7. The warnings are justified: the film is based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, which is…