a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
OpenSong is software for the Mac which can run your multimedia presentation over a projector. And the price is great: free. Definitely worth a look for those of you who use projection for your times of community worship.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” – Ephesians 2:8 There’s a disconnect in the common Evangelical doctrine of salvation between faith and works. Perhaps disconnect is not the right word, but there’s a one-sided view of “works.” While we are saved [...]
Terms get thrown around and we get desensitized to them. One of them is “waterboarding.” Most of us know it is a form of torture, but few know what it even is or what it is like. This may seem like an awful post on Christmas Eve, but as I read this post from Boing [...]
The Environment. Global warming. Universal Health Care. Poverty. War. These are all issues we must be concerned about. Do you feel a “but” coming? But… There’s a danger in big ideas. The danger is we transfer one cause for another. This is especially dangerous in the emerging church. Many of us have come out of [...]
Evidently Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee isn’t releasing sermons he’s preached. Julie Clawson wonders if he is “embarrassed by what he preached? Has his theology changed? Is he just afraid of controversy?” She brings up a reasonable observation that it seems both pastors and politicians have an aversion to admitting they’ve changed their minds about something. [...]
I found this video via the One for Truth blog.
I have to admit, it’s pretty rare for me to read a post and see something about Christianity I have not remotely thought about. There are different takes on various ideas, insights I glean, and sometimes truths beating me over the head in such a way I begin to truly understand, but to actually go, [...]
I really like what Will Samson had to say about John MacArthur’s most recent attack on the emerging church (specifically Doug Pagitt). More thoughts from me after the quote… John MacArthur on The Emergent Church: “This gives us the chance to say that we are so committed to unity in the Body of Christ that [...]
Scot McKnight’s stepping out into a potentially controversial topic… politics. I’m probably voting Green Party again, so I didn’t respond in the comments. If I did vote Democrat, right now it would be for Obama. The reason? I like most of his ideas, his heart seems genuine, and I haven’t been too impressed by anyone [...]
Do Wives Need to Submit to Husbands? pt 4: “Now-hear what I’m saying and don’t hear what I’m not saying. The Gospel has serious claims on our lives on the ways we treat others, on our relationship to sex, to money, to power- and sometimes those claims are going to be offensive. But the point [...]