You Might Need to Stop Going to Church For Awhile (Part 2)

A recent blog of mine, You Might Need to Stop Going to Church For Awhile, got some attention. A follow up is in order. First, let me be clear; the blog was not an anti-Sunday church rant. I attend a gathering each Sunday and am very happy to be a part of a local congregation. …

You Might Need to Stop Going to Church for Awhile

All of us form habits. We set down repeating rhythms for our lives, whether we realize it or not. It is these patterns that shape us into the people we are. Naturally, you would think then if you developed good habits, you would be a good person. Suppose I wanted to be a good Christian, …

Canoeing the Mountains

A great story and some good nuggets on church leadership

Letters To The Church

Francis Chan is not playing around in this book, he is deadly serious, perhaps too serious?

The Rise of the Nones

Who are the “Nones”? They are the people group in America that check “None” when survey’s and census’ come round asking what religious affiliation someone might be. (They are not to be confused with “Nuns” that would be an entirely different book!) As the title suggests, this group is experiencing dramatic growth. They are the …

Disappearing Church

The church is evaporating: Christianity is not overcome by siege, rather the end comes from within. The church is not destroyed; it is emptied of its essential truths, becomes a mere shadow and eventually disappears. Kind of like the fall of the Roman empire.  This kind of thing has happened before: In the early 20th …

A Story about the Trinity

From the very beginning the early church understood the trinity as a mystery that was honoured and respected.  Jesus claimed deity, and yet he was distinct from God, the promised Spirit who came at pentecost was also distinct from God and Jesus and yet was clearly divine. Before Constantine, it wasn’t a hot debate, amazement …

The Transforming Power of the Gospel

This book, intended for Christians, walks the believer in Jesus, through what he is supposed to believe. Set against the cultural context of the west, the gospel as Jerry presents it seems ever increasingly counter-cultural. God’s Hatred — A massive part of the good news story is the complete holiness of God. The hatred God …

Everyday Church

Another book about the church. There are a lot of them out there. This is one of the better ones. These men offer us a powerful critique of where the church has lost it’s focus, but they don’t just blast away, rather, with a gracious spirit they offer some tremendous assistance in moving forward. For …

Kingdom Matrix (Book Review)

Kingdom Matrix -- Jeff Christopherson What if the sacred / secular divide was not the most accurate way of understanding the way things are and the way things should be? With stinging clarity Jeff Christopherson points out that the kingdom of darkness is thriving in what most people would consider to be the sacred sphere. …