By Henry Neufeld I’m one of those people who tend to sit in or near the same place every week. In fact, in one church I attended, when I consciously decided to move, someone jokingly told me that I shouldn’t have moved, because they used to find their pew by seeing where I sat, and then sitting [...]
By Henry Neufeld Walter Brueggemann suggests how we might avoid getting tangled up on secondary issues:
(HT: Allan R. Bevere)
By Henry Neufeld “So, in a spirit of Christian solidarity, I decided to help these churches expel young people once and for all.” This is too good! Read the rest.
By Henry Neufeld The tragedy of the American church is that we have the greatest resources ever in the history of Christianity and for the most part we’re sitting on them, doing nothing. When we are doing something, most of what we do is for ourselves.
The question, I’m told, is what we should be doing and [...]
By Henry Neufeld Dave Black warns us today against the cult of the speaker. (With permission I’ve extracted the relevant portion as a post at JesusParadigm.com since Dave’s blog doesn’t allow linking to a specific post.)
Considering what we’ve heard recently about megachurches creating satellite campuses that receive the message from the senior pastor on the main [...]
By Henry Neufeld I think she has two excellent points, the first about the danger of thinking of oneself as a celebrity (evangelical or not!), and the second about the value of structured prayer. I’d add a note on the value of structured Bible study, which also forces one to leave one’s comfort zone and one’s own [...]
By Henry Neufeld Christians in many countries face imprisonment, but is it possible the American is imprisoned metaphorically by our way of thinking? Eric Carpenter thinks we are, and suggests some things to rethink.
By Henry Neufeld My church has a good children’s ministry. I’m impressed every time I hear our children’s minister present a children’s moment during the church service, and every time I’ve encountered the children’s programs myself, including the couple of times I’ve been invited to speak.
The children are learning a great deal about Christianity, their church, [...]
By Henry Neufeld Shauna Hyde is one of the authors at Energion Publications, so I admit to bias, but I really did like this write-up in the Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail. Her book, Victim No More! is mentioned in the article.
I’m often critical of newspaper articles, not so much for being negative, but for being shallow. I [...]
By Henry Neufeld I’ll be eagerly awaiting the inexpensive ebook of his lecture at Fuller. The summary is interesting.
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Asides Repelling Young People (2012/2/20) “So, in a spirit of Christian solidarity, I decided to help these churches expel young people once and for all.” This is too good! Read the rest. ()
Cooperative Missions (2012/2/20) Dave Black wants us to do church planting cooperatively. We should! ()
February 15 Christian Carnival Posted (2012/2/17) … at Bible Archive. ()
Pete Enns on the Historical Adam (2012/2/15) He continues the discussion with Kevin DeYoung. I’m glad to see this discussion continue. ()
February 8, 2012 Christian Carnival Posted (2012/2/9) … at Other Food. Thanks to Violet for hosting the carnival! ()
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