Holding the Church Hostage

Byhenry September 4, 2012

My quote of the day is from Ministry Matters:

Peace and progress are incompatible.

Author Dyton L. Owen also tells us when to let a church member go. Read the article!

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A Test to Determine if One is a Christian
Byhenry January 21, 2011
Image via Wikipedia I’m pretty annoyed to have judges trying to make a determination of whether one is a Christian based on their knowledge. That reflects a very poor understanding of Christianity that probably comes from someone who has grown up Christian and doesn’t really understand someone who is a recent convert. The story is…
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Newbigin: Proper Confidence
Byhenry July 26, 2008
With it’s subtitle, “Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship” this little big sets sail into a rather intense area of debate, and one which is very relevant to recent discussions on this blog. I’m not really going to try to summarize it. It is only 105 pages and those aren’t too terribly intense if…
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Book: Thank God for Evolution
Byhenry July 10, 2011
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution. New York: Plume, 2007. 380 pages + front and back matter. ISBN: 978-0-452-29534-6. (All numbers in parentheses are page numbers from this edition of the book.) I was interested in this book from the moment I saw the title, not because I immediately expected to agree, but because it,…
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Christianity | Religion | Worship

Seasons of the Church Year
Byhenry February 22, 2012
I grew up in a Christian group that did not follow the Christian liturgical calendar. There were many arguments presented for this, including the pagan backgrounds of some holidays. I’m not going to discuss that issue except to say that I care very little about the background of the day. What I care about is…
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Conceptual Idolatry
Byhenry November 21, 2006
Paul tells us that we now “see dimly in a mrror” (1 Corinthians 13:12), but some of us are quite certain that we see clearly. While I believe we should make every effort to get closer to the truth, it’s important that we understand that God’s ways are not our ways, and thus we will…
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The Moral Influence of Jesus’ Death
Byhenry October 8, 2024November 25, 2025
In my Sunday School class yesterday we discussed Mark 15. We’re reading this with Allan Bevere’s Keeping Up with Jesus: A Narrative Devotional Commentary on Mark. In the thought questions for chapter 15, Allan asks both why Jesus is silent at his trial as depicted in Mark, and what it means that Jesus died for…
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