I mentioned this morning in my sermon I am Saved Sanctified Holy Ghost filled

In 1965, Dr. Harvey Cox wrote a book entitled The Secular City, as an attempt to offer a theology for the age of coming postmodernism. In it, he regarded rapid urbanization and cultural deconstruction as challenges that demand answers from 20th century Christianity. But in the mid-1990s, Cox wrote another book entitled Fire from Heaven, […]

Demographics tend to change slowly. You can see the patterns emerging, and, for the most part, you can know what is coming years in advance. Most people do not pay attention to these gradual shifts because it does not have an immediate impact on their lives.  Then we hit an inflection point, and everyone seems…

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I wanted to share a personal treasure with you. Stanley Hauerwas, professor at Duke Divinity and an important influence in my life and ministry, released his memoir in May, Hannah’s Child from Eerdman’s. When he was still working on it, he allowed me to read a copy of the rough draft. In that version, he […]

Action Church in East Ridge, Tennessee, just outside of Chattanooga, is looking to hire their next worship leader. We are in a really good season of ministry with full services […]
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First Things First magazine recently published a religion and public life article on the Russian church. The focus was on orthodoxy and its historic symbioses with the political state. Several remarks from various social observations are in order. First off, the article seems to have been written by a person who never lived under socialist […]

1. You lose excessive weight you don’t need 2. You lose treasures/gold you thought you needed 3. You go on God’s diet 4. You learn your true friends/brothers and sisters 5. You learn to trust God daily 6. You learn to keep walking 7. You see your enemies defeated by God 8. Walking in the […]