Wyman Richardson is doing something important. He's exploring ways to relate his Baptist faith to the larger, ancient, "paleo-orthodox" Christian tradition. I think he's onto something important, and I want my readers to check it … [Continue reading...]
An iMonkish Quiet Time: My Most Helpful Devotional Resources
24 Jul by
One of the blessings- and I truly mean that- of the Internet Monk web site has been the amount of mail I receive. Of the various kinds of mail, some always contains questions from readers. Often the writer is seeking advice, or … [Continue reading...]
Spurgeon and Osteen: The Tale of Inaugural Sermons
20 Jul by
Charles Spurgeon preached two sermons at key moments in his ministry. The first was his first sermon at New Park Street. Just a boy, he had come to the old church of John Gill, determined that the God of the Gospel would once … [Continue reading...]
The Sanity Verses
16 Jul by
Sometimes, I don't need inspiration. What I need is just my sanity. I don't need verses that tell me I'm about to see a miracle. I need something that says God wants me to make it to tomorrow, and still be able to be useful. … [Continue reading...]
War of the Worldviews: Temptations for the Church in the Information Age
2 Jul by
This is one of the longer pieces I've posted on IM recently, and is an attempt to understand some of what we see going on among evangelicals these days through the lens of some basic sociology. Is the behavior of many evangelicals … [Continue reading...]
When Loving You Is Killing Me: Thoughts On Pastoring The Small Church
27 Jun by
David Hansen writes a wonderful, poignant, real-world account of how four high school boys wearing baseball caps to worship became an issue that, as he puts it, "decapitated Mount Saint Helen's," and put his church and ministry … [Continue reading...]
Who Let The Theologians In Here? (The SBC, that is.)
23 Jun by
UPDATE: I have revised and updated several parts of this essay, to make a few things more clear....and probably less palatable. Russell Moore, Southern Baptist scholar and writer at Touchstone's Mere Comments blog, dashed off … [Continue reading...]
God Of The Hubble Universe
21 Jun by
One of my life-long loves is astronomy. I've owned some very nice telescopes, and I've spent many a clear, cold winter night out on someone's farm, looking at the glories of the heavens. Since I was a child of the golden age of … [Continue reading...]
Postmodernism or Modernism on fumes?: From assertion to conversation in the cause of Jesus
17 Jun by
Over the past few weeks, I have passed on blogging responses to dozens and dozens of posts around the net, because I didn't want [name deleted] up on it again, and I didn't want to put up with the weirdness that has become the … [Continue reading...]
One Stubborn Text That Refuses to Go Away: What Does The New Testament Teach About Unbelievers In Public Worship?
The following is my contribution to a question that is dominating discussion among evangelicals: Should worship be "seeker sensitive?" What kind of worship experience should we seek when we want to reach out to the unbelievers in … [Continue reading...]