Tunes for Tuesday

Lost and Found

Ihave been reading Ed Stetzer’s new book “Lost and Found”. You can read more reviews about this book at Ed’s site.
One of the things I love most about Ed’s writing (books, blogs, tweets,etc) is that he does so commonly and directly. I am amazed of his multi-tasking abilities and am glad that I don’t have his schedule.
In his [...]

What to do with Driscoll?

iMonkhas some very interesting remarks about the popularity of badboy Driscoll.
In addition to criticizing Driscoll for his nutty exegesis of Song of Solomon and his less than impressive analysis of The Shack, I’ve backed up Pastor Mark before.It became painfully/strangely/humorously obvious at this week’s SBC meeting that a lot of people are worried about Mark [...]

Things You Don’t Want to Hear in Church

From the Sacred Sandwich
“Dude, I’m gonna hafta call you back. We’re about to pray or something.”
“Boo-oooo!”
“The pastor looks really cute today.”
“Mommy, my tummy doesn’t feel good. I think I’m gonna throw uh—erpleeeeeck!” (Accompanied by a splashing sound against my seat.)
“Hey there, ladies… nice bibles. You come here often?”
“Zzzzzzzzzz…”
“Sweet! I just scored the last Krispy Kreme at [...]

Tunes for Tuesday – Sermon Jam Edition

Change or Die?

This article is from Patrol magazine and written by Michael Spencer, AKA iMonk
THIS YEAR’S Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting is likely to be among its most significant in recent memory. For the first time in many years, the convention will meet in Louisville, where the Calvinism of Al Mohler and the Southern Baptist Theological [...]

A Father’s letter to his Son

From the book “Why We Love The Church” by Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck, Ted writes a letter to his son Tristan:
I pray that one day you’ll be able to ask your pastor about free will versus predestination. I hope you’ll ask him about the Trinity. About infant versus believer’s baptism. Not because these are [...]

Lost and Found

De-Churched

Avoid the Summer Brain Drain

From Al Mohler:
A teenager I happen to know quite well (seeing that he lives in my house) announced last week that summer is time off for his brain.  Well, nothing fires up the parental learning plans like a teenager who announces his plans to learn as little as possible over the summer.  Suffice it to [...]