RSS FeedHOW DO YOU CHANGE CHURCH MEMBERS TO BE OUTWARDLY FOCUSED?
I am an avid reader of Thom Rainer’s blog and many of his books. He is a perceptive analyst of church life: its challenges, culture, growth and decline. His latest little book (112 6x4 pages) addresses the problem of inwardly focused church members whose priority for...
HOW A DEVOUT AMERICAN MUSLIM BECAME A CHRISTIAN
At the Cross and Crescent Conference in Charleston, SC, I had the opportunity of hearing the testimony of Nabeel Qureshi who converted to Christianity from Islam. He was a dynamic speaker. I bought his book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, and have just finished reading...
A PRAYER FOR LENT
LORD, bless to me this Lent. Lord, let me fast most truly and profitably, by feeding in prayer on your Spirit: reveal me to myself in the light of your holiness. Suffer me never to think that I have: Knowledge enough to need no teaching, Wisdom enough to need no...
AN ASH WEDNESDAY SELF-EXAMINATION
It is customary in Lent to examine ourselves, confess our sins and seek renewal in our lives. I have taken the ten commandments of Exodus 20 as a way of self-examination. I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF BONDAGE. YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BUT ME. Love...
WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF GOD IN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY?
At the Cross and Crescent Conference in Charleston last week, William Lane Craig, Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University spoke on the concept of God in Islam and Christianity. He dealt with the major objection of Islam to...
THE MYTH OF SECULARISM
Tomorrow I am driving to Charleston, South Carolina to attend a conference on Christianity and Islam. Since 9/11/2001 the world has been challenged by the resurgence of a militant form of Islam which seeks to advance its cause by terrorist activities. We have all had...
WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE OF EVANGELISM?
The Gospel and Pluralism Today, edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong is worth reading for the chapter by Carrie Boren Headington entitled Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society. She describes sharing her faith in the dining hall of an Oxford college during a...
HOW CAN THOSE WHO MOURN BE COMFORTED?
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (NIV) “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.” (The Message Matthew 5:4) How can mourning be blessed and what...
IN MEMORY OF DAVID MOLAK
This week I learned from my daughter that David Molak died. I went online to read his obituary and noticed that it included a link to a video of his funeral at Christ Church, San Antonio, Texas where I was Rector (Senior Pastor) for 14 years. I clicked onto the link...
BAND OF BROTHERS
In 1988 I began a Covenant Group of fellow clergy that meets for three days every January. A member of that group, David Roseberry, pastor of Christ Church, Plano, Texas, has written a moving testimony of what that group has meant to him and all of us who have been...
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