Rethinking Galatians: Perhaps Those Judaizers Were Onto Something?

Several years ago the Brazilian soccer team was in the World Cup.  Now I’m sure you’re aware that soccer is very big down in Brazil, just like college football is big here in the South and professional football is big in other parts of the country (but for those of you who weren’t–you are now).  [...]

I’m Having a Moment Here…

Give me one pure and holy passion Give me one magnificent obsession Give me one glorious ambition for my life To know and follow hard after You. To know and follow hard after You To grow as Your disciple in the truth This world is empty pale and poor Compared to knowing You my Lord [...]

Michael Spencer: The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism

Today I would like to direct your attention to a series of posts over at Michael Spencer’s blog, in which he looks at unresolved tensions in evangelicalism. In the first post of the series, he looks at that mostrosity known as the Christian worldview (some of us might call it the Biblical worldview or other [...]

Julie Nedlinger: Why I Walked Out of Church

Today I would like to direct your attention to a post by Julie Nedlinger about her frustrations with evangelical ways of doing church and how they fail to connect with her.  If you are someone who is concerned for the church and wants to know why it is not reaching the people in our generation [...]

Alastair on Preaching

You all need to go over to Alastair at Adversaria’s blog and check out this post on preaching.  Alastair makes the case that the evangelical emphasis on preaching as the central event of the service has affected the church in many ways that are not good.  Church is no longer a place where we engage in community [...]

The Real Fight Club

I just found out what “Fight Club” is really all about. It’s a movie based on a book by Chuck Palahniuk about a thirtysomething man who is disenchanted with his life as a pawn of corporate America.  So he forms an underground fight club where other disenchanted young men take out their aggression through boxing [...]

RLP: The Disillusionment Chronicles

Today I would like to offer you a series of posts from Real Live Preacher.  In these posts, RLP starts with the premise that enlightenment and disillusionment are both necessary components of spiritual growth, then goes on to recount an experience from his college days which was quite disillusioning for him. We in evangelical Protestant-dom [...]

Is There a Gospel for Those Who Are Already Saved?

Today I would like to commend to your attention a resource from Dr. Rod Rosenbladt entitled “The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church”.  This is a 45-minute talk which is available from New Reformation Press.  You can download it in MP3 format for only $3.45.  Or, if you are a college student like myself [...]

Told Ya: Interesting Developments at Willow Creek

I am not one who gets much pleasure out of habitually saying “See?  Told ya so”.  (Those of you who have been tracking with me for a while can feel free to draw your own conclusions about the veracity of that statement.)  But when this interesting little news item came out of Willow Creek last [...]

Fight Club 11: The Heart of It All–Who and What Are Forming You?

I think it is about time to start making a move toward shutting down the Fight Club series.  (Won’t Michael Vick be disappointed?  Oh wait.  We don’t do dogfighting here at the Fight Club, so what does he care?) This time I would like to address the issue of spiritual formation. I waited until the end of [...]