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There’s a place in Ian Morgan Cron’s Chasing Francis where his spiritually-brokedown-now-on-pilgrimage pastor protagonist returns, looks his congregation in the eye and says “When I left here, I wasn’t sure what a Christian looked like anymore. My idea of how to follow Jesus had run out of gas.” The characters may be (barely) fictional, but […]

UPDATE III: While we wait for CBD to apologize, we can all play Oprah or Osteen.
UPDATE II: Can anyone in a Lifeway Store or working for Lifeway confirm that Lifeway is selling this book? Please tell me it isn’t true. If TIME Magazine can tell us this fraud is a prosperity preaching wolf in […]

Here’s an essay from the archives that discusses that part of post-evangelicalism some find the most obnoxious: the confession that I believe in the catholic church and a catholic Christianity. It’s called “A Generous Catholicity.”
With discussions of ecclesiology beginning to heat up in Southern Baptist life and among the many new church leaders looking at […]

It’s not often that I don’t have anything to say, but I would insult you to try and add to anything my brother Jared Wilson says in this post lamenting the “cool Christian/uncool Christian” video ads used by some churches.
This is raw, honest, real stuff. It’s the lament for and about the gospel we need […]

“Will God punish people forever in hell?” In this last segment, I talk about how to not get cornered by the usual traps in this question.
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How do you know I like this book? I spent three hours writing the review, hit publish and Wordpress promptly ate it.
I’m rewriting it.

Tyler Wigg Stevenson is a writer, preacher and political activist with credentials as wide-ranging as a Yale Divinity M.Div., a year as an assistant to John Stott and being part of the […]

UPDATE: I am not going to publish comments claiming that Roman Catholics are not Christians.
Critics- atheistic, fundamentalist, truly reformed and those too correct to be labeled- will probably go completely bonkers with pleasure at the revelation that Mother Teresa struggled with the dark night of the soul much of her life and ministry. In letters […]

I don’t usually link people who riff on my work, but I have tremendous respect for Jared at Gospel Driven Church, and his use of one of my better pieces “To Know We’re Not Alone,” is a real honor. Take a moment and read “The Hard Stuff of Real Lives.”
I want you to read Jared […]

I’d read Eugene Peterson for a while in his IVP Old Testament books when I purchased and read a book on pastoral ministry called Working the Angles. Wow.
No book in my library is more underlined. This is what I needed to hear in seminary. It’s what I needed to hear from older men in my […]

iMonk 101 reruns posts from the IM archives.
This is the first “parable” post I ever did at IM. (I actually wrote it back when I was on michaelspencer.us.) “A Parable for Our Church-Growth, Seeker-Sensitive Friends.”
This kind of story illustrates what happens to us when “boredom” becomes the big problem, and we take the pragmatic road […]

My wife Denise is an excellent dramatic writer, and every year she creates wonderful Christmas programs that any church could use to put together something really classy. She’s posted a free creative ministries Christmas program, since now is the time some of you may be in the market for a similar program. It’s a grouping […]

The August 19th edition of the White Horse Inn contains a large segment of interviews asking people at a Christian conference what happens to a person if they died with unconfessed sin.
Whatever you do, get this podcast/mp3, listen to it and keep it around. The answers may or may not shock you, depending on your […]

Propositions and Spiritual experience, Rice endorses Hillary, Tithing.
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“Will God punish people forever in hell?” In this third segment, I suggest what we are compelled to believe and what we are still seeking to understand.
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I love the word “juxtaposition.” If you don’t know it, it means the placing of two things side by side. Often, the connotation refers to two things that are not usually put in proximity to one another.
Because of the way I live my life, I seem to have many experiences of unusual juxtapositioning. I am, […]