Mark Altrogge points out the problem with using your own feelings and preferences as the arbiter of what worship should be: Hey I like a kicking worship band as much as the next guy. I don’t like boring music. I like to feel good in worship. And I want visitors to our church to feel …
Ed Welch’s words should not be confined to teenagers. People of all ages can fall into this spiritual trap, and some churches encourage them along the way. “Hello, I am a moralistic therapeutic deist.” That’s the word from a number of evangelical teens. I really liked that phrase when I first read it, though it …
Russell Moore makes some points about how people can be orthodox in their belief, but liberal in their practice by denying the dimension of the Gospel life known as forgiveness. All of us are going to have some painfully broken relationships. But they shouldn’t be the norm for a Christian’s life. The most difficult math …
Monday With Mounce revisits a perennial question: how to not judge (Matthew 25:32) without forsaking discernment and credulity. In speaking of the final judgment, Jesus says, “All the nations (τὰ ἔθνη) will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people (αὐτοὺς) one from another (ἀπ᾿ ἀλλήλων) as a shepherd separates the sheep from …
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