This spoken word piece by Jefferson Bethke has attracted a lot of attention over the last few days. (Almost seven million youtube views at this point.) It’s central theme is that Jesus hates religion. Have a listen. While it sounds both plausible and inviting, how does it stack up against the Bible? Kevin DeYoung provides …
CNN belief blog reports about what it perceives is the self-conscious Christian content of Barack Obama’s recent remarks about Christmas and the essence of the Christian message. Under the title: Obama delivers very Christian message at Christmas tree lighting, the following was attributed to the current US President (excerpted from the article): President Barack Obama …
We’ve got a huge new shopping complex being built just across the road from our church center. It will represent a huge change to the demographic layout of Mount Gambier, now and for the future. How can we adapt to this change for the Gospel? Hopefully more effectively than these folk did when they built …
What does For The City promise? Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter have planted churches in the heart of two US cities. In 180 pages they seek to ‘shed light on what a healthy church looks like, [and] share from our experiences as church planters how to pursue the goal of healthy, God-honoring churches in cities …
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