De-Churched

Religion Vs. Gospel

From Tim Keller:
RELIGION: I obey-therefore I’m accepted.
THE GOSPEL: I’m accepted-therefore I obey.
RELIGION: Motivation is based on fear and insecurity.
 THE GOSPEL: Motivation is based on grateful joy.
RELIGION: I obey God in order to get things from God.
THE GOSPEL: I obey God to get to God-to delight and resemble Him.
RELIGION: When circumstances in my life go wrong, [...]

Focus on your Principles

From Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee
Focus on the Family got to work this week in explaining in detail why it pulled from its website an interview with a Mormon author.
 “We intended no insult,” expressed ministry spokesman Gary Schneeberger, in a statement. “[W]e merely miscalculated on how best to feature Glenn [Beck], whom we greatly appreciate.”
Last [...]

Obama’s Next Choice

Obama has been making a lot of decisions in the past month. After all putting together a super team for your cabinet is not an easy task and dodging mud slinging from your former governors misappropriations, proves to be difficult as well. I am not so interested in Obama’s cabinet choices, nor am I concerned [...]

You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!

You may never have heard of E. A. Adeboye, but the pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God is one of the most successful preachers in the world. He boasts that his church has outposts in 110 countries. He has 14,000 branches—claiming 5 million members—in his home country of Nigeria alone. There are 360 [...]

Opportunity Knocks?

Bad times are good for evangelical churches.
“It’s a wonderful time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us,” said the Rev. A. R. Bernard, founder and senior pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York’s largest evangelical congregation, where regulars are arriving earlier to get a seat. “When people are shaken to the core, it [...]

America’s Fastest Growing Religion

While many Christians today are closely monitoring the growth and activity of Islam, especially after 9/11, another religious movement has been steadily growing “under the radar” and could become among the largest religions in the United States in less than five years.
 
“Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in America, set to be the third largest religion [...]

YIPPEEEE!!!!

Man, how good God is and how amazing He works! I have been praying and praying for opportunities to open up to allow me to move to the next stage in my ministry and yesterday I began seeing answers to my prayers. What excites me the most is not so much the answers given to [...]

ReLit: Death By Love

Watched the new video promo for the book Death By Love by Mark Driscoll and Gary Beershears this morning. Looks pretty dark and unsuitable for younger audiences (no doubt) but I believe it will reach this younger generation of people searching for meaning through their suffering. Check it out here.

Piper: Preaching

Here is a clip I found through a blog this morning. This clip is Adrian Warnock interviewing John Piper on the results he recieves from his own preaching.