Our family has spent a very busy, weekend visiting nursing homes with violin Christmas music and handing out Candy Canes. But it makes you think, what are the churches really doing for the elderly?
Many of those who are still in the churches feel their church has been stolen from them. It isn’t anything like it [...]

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New Emergent Bible Translation: The Voice
“The Voice,” Dubbed a “New Bible Translation,” Bows in October
Featured writers, scholars, artists and musicians for The Voice include the president of Ecclesia Bible Society and internationally acclaimed speaker and pastor Chris Seay (project founder); Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller; internationally known speaker and author of over 12 highly [...]

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I got an email from Slice of Laodicea entitled The Shift is Underway. I would have probably not paid any attention to it except I had just recently seen a local church which has a pastor’s blog named Shift. I am not sure if they are in anyway related but it was interesting to me [...]

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For those that don’t understand how Mark Driscoll can be blamed for the start of the downgrade in language from the pupit, Steve Camp has posted more about language and he included a quote from Driscoll.
No question I would walk out if I heard this from a pulpit and I don’t care how disruptive my [...]

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John Killinger told the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Memphis, TN, the following as quoted in:
CBF presenter questions Christ’s deity Posted on Jun 19, 2008 by David Roach
“Doctrine isn’t the driving force to many people today” except “to the fundamentalists who insist on it,” Killinger said. “But doctrine is a thing of the past [...]

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Grunge Christianity?Counterculture’s Death-Spiral and the Vulgarization of the Gospel
by John MacArthur
“One of the favorite topics on the evangelical agenda these days is how the church should “engage the culture.” Do Christians need to imitate the boorish aspects of a quickly-decaying civilization in order to remain “relevant”? Some evidently think so.
We keep hearing from evangelical strategists [...]

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