Why is church so dull? A psychotherapist diagnoses the Sunday ritual. – By Stephen W. Simpson – Patrol Magazine

Why is church so dull? A psychotherapist diagnoses the Sunday ritual. – By Stephen W. Simpson – Patrol Magazine
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Christ Has Loved Us!

There is not a circumstance of our Lord’s history which is not another form or manifestation of love.
His incarnation is love stooping.
His sympathy is love weeping.
His compassion is love supporting.
His grace is love acting.
His teaching is the voice of love.
His silence is the repose of love.
His patience is the restraint of love.
His obedience is the [...]

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The Perfect Minister?

John Newton reflects on why there is no such thing.
In my imagination, I sometimes fancy I could [create] a perfect minister. I take the eloquence of ______, the knowledge of ______, the zeal of ______, and the pastoral meekness, tenderness, and piety of ______. Then, putting them all together into one man, I say to [...]

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One String Banjo.

I think it was in the summer of ‘73.  My old friends Colin and Dee were to be married in Sebeka and they asked me to come and sing.  I had written a tune now long forgotten (I know it was about the love of Jesus).  I showed up in the nick of time and [...]

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Barnes on Church Planting in WSJ

Political commentator Fred Barnes writing in the Wall Street Journal:
In 2007, my wife Barbara and I left The Falls Church, which we had happily attended from the time we became Christians a quarter-century ago. It’s a 277-year-old church in northern Virginia well-known for its popular preacher, the Rev. John Yates, its adherence to traditional biblical [...]

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American Christianity in Decline

Check out Michael Spenser’s (The internet Monk) linked-up take on recent evidence of the decline of American Christianity here.  His summation and prescription is compelling.
If you are an evangelical and you aren’t enthusiastically supporting innovative, cross cultural, missional church planting, you might want to go pre-plan the funeral. The future isn’t the megachurch. The future [...]

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Pete Rollins reads parables from The Orthodox Heretic- “No Conviction”

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What Christmas is All About

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It Came to Pass

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Something Nice

Its been a long time since I’ve listened to an entire album…  Andrew Petersen has just released a collection of tunes called “Resurrection Letters Vol. II” that’s worth listening to from front to back.  You can hear it streamed (for free!) here.  Do it.  I mean it

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