a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
The bottom line is that this verse (Hebrews 13:17) cannot be translated to mean that leaders are accountable for how people think, believe, or behave. Leaders are accountable for the manner in which they lead, not for how people follow. This kind of thinking only leads to a performance-driven bondage for the leader and anyone [...]
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Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana has stirred up a little trouble for themselves with an innovative campaign to draw people into hear a sermon series.
I’m not a big fan of marketing anything to grow your church, as I feel the best growth comes through relationships and direct contact from individuals in the body of [...]
I decided to convert a bunch of my old Vineyard worship cd’s to mp3 in case I ever get my broken iPod working again, and so I’d have them with me on my laptop. While going through CDs, I found Beat the System by Petra!
These guys originated in my hometown of Fort Wayne, IN. They [...]
Cory Maye on Death Row: “
AT 11:00PM ON DECEMBER 26, 2001…
Members of the Prentiss, Mississippi police force and the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force conducted a drug raid on the duplex apartment of Jamie Smith. Cory Maye lived in the other apartment that made up the duplex. Maye was not named in the police [...]
I’ve had two auditions in two days… after two auditions in two months prior to that. Things have been really slow in the acting department for me, I hope the past couple of days are a sign of things picking up.
Please pray for my acting career right now. Sincerely. I’ve been really considering shifting focus [...]
I’m reading through robbymac’s new site Post-Charismatic right now, and there’s a lot of good stuff. He’s on board for a podcast discussion in the near future, maybe even the first one of the discussion series I’ve been promising…
“Just because spiritual gifts are in evidence, we should not assume that God is therefore endorsing all [...]
John Stewart The Daily Show on Cheney’s Got a Gun
I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.
It should be noted John Stewart downgraded the humor a notch on his next show, when the next day Whittington had a heart attack. I believe it was downgraded from hysterical rolling on floor laughing to a bit [...]
Common to the emerging church is dealing with the two terms “objective” and “subjective.” Sometimes it is mere semantics that separate us from critics, at other times there are very real and pertinent differences.
Lately, I’ve had a few online engagements (and a few in person) with the latter kind, as well as one or two [...]
I ran across this post: Beware of TR Feelings, and I felt the comment I wrote would be good as a post here (modified slightly to fit a post rather than a comment).
I should note the author responded to my comment and said we were mostly in agreement. You can see the post and comments [...]
The Emergent No blog has jumped in on the critique of my The Idolatry of Truth post. I would have thought that after clarifying some things in the comments, the poster would have taken the time to read the entire thing…
Since the link will no doubt drive traffic this way, I want to correct some [...]