How do you view the Bible?

Thanks to Sam Rainer @ Church Forward for this article.
The Barna Group recently released research that reveals how attitudes about Bible usage are changing across generations. They interviewed over 1,000 people in five separate studies. They defined each generation in the study: the Mosaic generation (ages 18 to 25), the Busters (ages 26 to 44), [...]

Ministry Pornography

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, [...]

How will you share the Gospel with this generation?

With everything there is to compete with in our culture. The Gospel is still relevant and timely. Others believe that you have to “dumb it down” in order for this generation to understand or to sit still long enough for them to grasp it. The beauty of the gospel is that God is still working [...]

Depressed about Dating

**Sigh**…When  I think about our lesson last night that’s all I can do. **(Big) Sigh*Last night our lesson was still on the issue of dating, but it was to take a more serious look at a dangerous side of dating, or rather “not dating”. We focused on how the American system of dating has left  [...]

Be A Man!

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870), was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history.Among Southerners, Lee came to be even more revered after his surrender than he had been during the war. Admirers pointed to his character and devotion to duty, [...]

Role Models For Who?

If it’s the sign of the times, then I’m really feeling old. I was doing some “culture research” this past week on MTV and caught a glimpse of this movie trailer. Needless to say, I am no longer disgusted, angry, or  offended by the stupid, banal, and immature movies and television shows [...]

Garbage Revealed

The world’s longest undeveloped barrier island now looks as if people have been living — and dumping — on it for decades.
Tons of debris swept up by Hurricane Ike last month were carried by Gulf of Mexico currents hundreds of miles from the upper Texas coast to this ordinarily pristine landscape just north of the [...]