The Worst Worship Ever

Tunes for Tuesday

Clarifying the Tornado

John Piper has caught a lot of heat about his previous post on the tornado to hit Minneapolis. After such criticism I guess he felt he needed to explain himself futher. I am disheartened at the amount of “Godly” people to lash out at him for his relating Scripture to current events. My response to [...]

Small Change, Big Difference

Here’s A cool post from musician Shaun Groves:
What’s the smallest change that’s made the biggest difference in your life?

That’s an easy one for me: We canceled cable.
One phone call.  Big difference.
Becky and I didn’t do it because of some profound philosophical shift we underwent.  Nope, what happened was we sat down to watch X-Files one [...]

Ministry Pornography

The Tornados, The Lutherans, and Homosexuality

From Desiring God
(Author: John Piper)
I saw the fast-moving, misshapen, unusually-wide funnel over downtown Minneapolis from Seven Corners. I said to Kevin Dau, “That looks serious.”
It was. Serious in more ways than one. A friend who drove down to see the damage wrote,
On a day when no severe weather was predicted or expected…a tornado forms, baffling [...]

Tunes for Tuesday

Simply Amazing! Kid plays both guitar parts at the same time!

A Call to Church Planters

From the Resurgence
 
If you’re a church planter, chances are you’re wasting money.
The Sales Pitch
Let’s be honest: this is America, home of free-market capitalism. There is money to be made from church planters. And so a whole church-planting industry is ready to tell you that if you’re going to do it right, you probably need:

a club-ready [...]

Poseur Coffee Drinking

From a series entitled SSEC or Shooting Sacred Evangelical Cows is piece written by Owen Strachen.
What you find on many websites is some kind of description like this: “I love reformed theology, U2, anything by Steven Soderbergh, and a fresh cup of joe.”  Or maybe: “My interests are theology, issues of social justice, Beastie Boys, [...]

Church Marketing

I’ve posted this before but it never gets old.