Top Ten (or Thereabouts!) Posts:
My journey from traditional “church”, and some of what I’ve learned about being the church — the exciting, enticing and enthralling multi-faceted Body of Christ!
Our whole paradigm for “doing church” needs to radically shift from monologues delivered from detached podiums that safely isolate our leaders from effective fellowship.
Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts. Those with the gift of mercy are vital for what God wants to do in our age with an emerging new spiritual generation.
Like many, I found my validation in my gifts and abilities. If we understand the different spiritual gifts listed in Romans 12 — and find the one that corresponds to our personality — then we can instead begin to find our validation in pleasing the Father.
The Growing Idolatry of Civil Government
Too many Christians want to use the power of civil government to infringe on the God-ordained but different jurisdictions of self government, the family, the church and voluntary associations.
New Covenant Fellowship? Beware!
This post chronicles the decline and ongoing death thralls of a once great church, and documents what happens when a charming but otherwise abusive leader grabs power, robs the people and leads a church into cult practices and doctrines.
As I struggle with an autoimmune condition called systemic sclerosis, I have begun to understand chronic fatigue and how to cope with its effects.
When did we start believing that Christians are entitled to health, wealth and success? For me, I’ve found instead the wonder of God’s sufficient grace.
As I’ve counseled hundreds of people of the years, I’ve learned that God miraculously heals us when we’re willing to go to and expose to Him those places at the core of our being where wounds, hurts and lies reside.
Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?
Why do those “on point” for the Kingdom of God increasingly seek refuge from the prevailing pop-theology (or dare I say lack of theology) and me-focused brand of Christianity that animates many of our church leaders and cuts believers off from the great historic doctrines and creeds of our faith?
Essentially Reformed or Hyper-Calvinist?
Why is it that those who most strongly affirm God’s sovereignty do so in a way that denies His ability — His right, if He so pleases — to delegate choice to us?
All Posts:
- God in a Box
- Sufficient Grace, Part III
- Fathers and Teachers
- Peeking Through the Cracks
- “Us” and “Them”
- Is There Not a Cause?
- Millennials and Old Farts
- The Fierceness of God
- Sufficient Grace, Part II
- Inside Out
- Twitter and Facebook
- Holy Ghost Church in the County Jail
- Outside the Box
- Modern Day Pauls?
- The Great Commission
- Probation’s Ban on Church Attendance
- Getting to Simple
- Celebrating 100 Years of Twisting, Licking and Dunking
- Does Jesus Want You to Vote?
- God’s Pleasure
- Acceptance with Joy
- Becoming Our Past
- Beyond Evangelical? – A Follow Up
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 3)
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 2)
- Beyond Evangelical? (Part 1)
- True Leadership
- Jesus at the Fringes
- The Priesthood of All Believers
- We Have Met the Enemy
- A Multilingual Jesus
- Planting Churches
- Room at the Inn
- Redemption
- Ekklesia as Escapism
- I Am Content
- About Justice
- Christ Chapel: Pastoral Sex Abuse
- The Mythology of Tithing
- Old Covenant Church
- Grace, Mercy and Love
- The Road to Grace
- Ordained to Fail
- A Hollow Gospel
- Herman Cain
- The Question of Leadership
- Does Anybody Hear Her?
- Going Organic
- Halloween
- Crossing Jordan
- Silence = Death
- I Saw Satan Fall
- Starve the Beast
- Narcissists with Power
- Wall Street Protests
- Limousine Liberals
- Jesus, the Living Word
- Interview with God
- Tidy Whitey
- Church?
- Hypocrisy and Courage
- Beauty from Ashes
- Mentoring Entrepreneurs
- Christian Counseling Class
- Shameful Silence
- Government Run Amuck
- Being the Church
- The Wolves Among Us
- The Buffers Between Us
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 4: Civil and Criminal Law
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 3: A Mandatory Public Reprimand
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 2: How Should We React?
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 1: My Personal Angst
- A Warrior’s Heart
- The Storm
- Understanding the Seven Motivational Gifts
- A Tale of Two Ministries
- Diverse Gifts and Church Meetings, Part 3: An Example
- Diverse Gifts and Church Meetings, Part 2: The Imperative of Participation
- Diverse Gifts and Church Meetings, Part 1: The Motivational Gifts
- The Great Divide: Biblical Absolutes and Relativism
- Developing a Biblical Worldview: Origins – God or Chance?
- Developing a Biblical Worldview: Science or Scientific Materialism?
- The Church in the New Testament: Its Form, Function and Purpose
- My Prayer
- Life!
- Joy and Gratitude
- Helping or Enabling?
- Heaven
- The Gospel vs. Religion
- Scientific Faith
- Authentic Church
- Freedom
- Transparent
- Reboot
- Whole Health
- True Ministry
- Ken Hornby (1945 – 2010)
- Repentance, Forgiveness and the Kingdom of God
- A Very Public Confession
- Good Christian Satire
- Improbable Church
- Lest We Forget
- Worship
- Regeneration
- Pimping the Gospel
- The Lost Art of Dialogue
- Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?
- Participatory Church
- The Challenge of Intercession
- The Gift of Mercy
- Following God’s Presence
- Gifts, Calling and Validation
- The Church in D Pod
- The Sunday "God Show" at Your Friendly Podium Church
- The Growing Idolatry of Civil Government
- New Wine Sucks
- The Charismatic Movement is Dead
- When I Fell In Love
- New Wine And Old Skins
- New Covenant Fellowship? Beware!
- Father’s Day
- Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
- Post-Release Community
- Fellowship and Light
- Church As Starbucks?
- Dealing With Church Leadership Abuse
- Pastoral Burnout
- Rick Warren Disavows Support for Prop. 8
- Woundedness
- Conversion
- Sufficient Grace
- Been Hearing God Lately?
- Them Dry Bones
- God is Not Passive
- Rethinking Missions
- Ukraine Trip Report
- God Shows Up
- Fashionable Scorn
- A Dawkins Ditty
- Essentially Reformed or Hyper-Calvinist?
- Pentecost in the Local Jail
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Church sower, mentor, teacher, foe of tyrants, friend of the dispossessed, Christian, thinker, author, attorney, entrepreneur, pilot and so-so bass fisherman.
