Once again during my readings of “They Like Jesus but Not The Church”, I was stimulated to ask myself some questions about how we do church, how we help the church do a better job of communicating the gospel, and how we train believers in basic apologetics when I ran across Dan Kimballs thoughts on, [...]

This is my research weekend so while perusing through some old articles I came across this one that I believe will be helpful for you. Bill Cornelius, Pastor of Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi Texas shares his thoughts on three healthy choices churches can make. “If you do not pound the table or cry [...]

A friend of mine Jim Henderson just posted this posting, “Free Jesus” on his blog, “Conversation on the Edge“. You can also check Jim out at Off the Map. By Jim Henderson In 1543 Nicolas Copernicus published his treatise De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (The Revolution of Celestial Spheres) and ushered into popular discourse the phrase [...]

It was great to be back in my worship venue this morning where I’ve worshiped these past couple of years with the Pastor Pat and the Overdrive Venue at Saddleback. Dave Upton, Worship Pastor was bringing it this morning with the band. Thanks Overdrive family for a great worship experience. Chuck Colson was the guest [...]

In Evangelism Outside the Box: New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News, Rick Richardson calls these “questions that heat up a room” or “the new questions we face”: 1 Questions of power and motive. Even our logical answers can feel like an exercise of colonializing power to people today. To many people we’re [...]

The biblical response to the post-Christian culture is two-fold, as described by Robert Webber: 1 The Call to Stand Over Against Culture The first issue to deal with is how and where the Christian faith radically differs from the present assumptions of culture. Three matters in particular stand out: philosophical, ethical, and spiritual relativism. Philosophical [...]