SIMPLE CHURCH
My young friends often ask me how we lived before cell phones. How did we do life, they wonder, before we could carry around access to the world in the palm of our hands?
Actually, I reply, we lived quite well. In fact, ...
Universalism and the Pastor (Parchman Lecture Series | Truett Seminary | Part 2) - KR 150
Why did evangelicalism get so upset about Love Wins by Rob Bell and pay so little attention to Allah by Miroslav Volf?
Scot suggests that evangelicals ...
Douglas Campbell’s new big book, Pauline Dogmatics, with its wonderful subtitle The Triumph of God’s Love, keeps its eyes on the realities of what Paul was saying and how what Paul was saying works out in world, and no ...
“Hope.” If I am honest, it has always been a sentimental word for me.
Hope suggests passivity to me. I like outcomes to be guaranteed, goals to be measure-able, and rules clear, and then followed precisely. I have always ...
By: Pastor Tommy Preson Phillips, Tampa FL
The first temptation of many church leaders during this pandemic, when we have been barred from gathering as a community, is to grab the best cameras, microphones, and video equipment that ...
We continue our walk through Isaiah with Ben Witherington III (Isaiah Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics) as our guide. Today we focus on Isaiah 44:24-45:13, an oracle that names an historical figure, Cyrus, ...
It’s early morning, the first week of the ‘Stay at Home’ Order in the State of Illinois, the first week of virtual services, virtual homegroups, and I’m wondering to myself what will become of my church and ...
When I was little boy, I heard the story of Elijah calling down fire from heaven. In my little southern evangelical church, Elijah was the proto-type preacher. He was standing up to power, calling the people back to God and bringing ...
To understand a statement today, whether one listens to a politician, a medical specialist, a journalist, a theologian, a parent, a neighborhood member, requires context.
Context, context, context.
The Ancient Near East (=ANE) is known ...
From CNN
Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino!Fort Wayne, Indiana, is urging people to fight the loneliness of isolation by going out at 7 p.m. and waving to their neighbors."Now is the time to look after one another, even from a safe distance," ...
