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Preaching the Great Commission
Even Purgatory: Today at my parish we had a missionary priest from India. I am happy to say that after years of disappointment, it was refreshing to finally here a missionary actually talking about...
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Has the Bible Become So Common that People Don’t Go to Church for It?
One of the questions I raised in my review of John Fea’s book on the American Bible Society was whether making the book so widely available, even more common than Wifi, has undermined its uniqueness:...
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Both Cannot Be True
On the one hand, preaching the Bible is haahht: According to a new study by Gallup, the hottest thing at church today is not the worship and not the pastor. It’s not the smoke and lights and it’s not...
View ArticleNothing Could Possibly Go Wrong
Not only is the magisterium’s teaching infallible, but a Roman Catholic’s salvation is never in doubt: neither the Catholic or Orthodox speakers accepted the term ‘nominal Christian’. People from a...
View ArticlePutting the Loco in Logocentric
Rod Dreher reflects on the ways that even while denominational brands among Protestants are in free fall (and have been, I might add, since the Second Not-So-Good Awakening), the differences between...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Preaching?
For some evangelicals, the options in worship are either the sacraments or the gifts of the Spirit: This Sunday, thousands of believers will enter a sanctuary in which all eyes are drawn to the table...
View ArticleWho Sounds Protestant?
Another upgrader to Rome marvels about continuity between the ancient church and contemporary Roman Catholicism (were the church fathers as sexually confused as today?): I haven’t officially tweeted...
View ArticleJohn Owen Preached Irrelevantly
Speaking of liberalism, Benjamin Rush, a Presbyterian, agreed with Thomas Jefferson, that preachers should stay in their own lane and stop trying to do what politicians do. He even recommended John...
View ArticleGreat Song, But Can you Preach It?
Imagine preaching a prayer. Sometimes Tim Challies includes prayers from the congregation where he worships (the pattern seems to be using a common text for confession of sin rather than producing a...
View ArticleHope For Fans of Ravi Zacharias
Reporting on the alleged sexual abuse of a prominent apologist has shaken parts of the evangelical world if the coverage at Christianity Today is any indication. I for one still find it hard to...
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