This is a strange thing to write. It was initially going to start off as me griping about "those people" who see every little good thing that happens in their lives as a blessing from God. Maybe you know someone like that? Maybe you are someone like that? I It occurred to me as I
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But Pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And
Anne Rice apparently quit Christianity today. She claims to still be a christian, but she does not like a whole lot of Christianity. Leaving aside that I agree with a number of her points, I disagree with the larger spirit of what she was saying. Let me start a little earlier than I was initially
I noticed that John Piper asked if the Church can grow when it has a bad name. He quoted the book of Acts "everywhere this sect is spoken against." (28:22) For those who don't know, Acts recounts the story of Christianity's explosion after the death, and resurrection of Christ. I thought this was an overly
I just read this post on worship bands by Fearsome Tycoon over at the Boar's Head Tavern. He has this to say about worship bands. A huge part of it is theological. There is no way to do “praise band” without turning the service into a “show.” Disagree? Find me one praise band that plays
January was a strange month. It started out in one of my favorite places with some of my favorite people Ottawa, with my friends from Augustine College. I returned to Toronto to face a few realities though. First among these realities was that 2009 was not the best year of my life, not even close.
Yesterday it may have seemed like I was picking on a church here in Toronto. I made a comment that I believe is justifiable criticism. Now I would like to say one very positive thing the pastor said, that I think more churches could learn from. His comment was that they were a church that
Yesterday morning I was at a rather large church here in Toronto. It was a good service, the preacher there is very good. It was strange though because it was one of their pastors last days. He was changing roles. Instead of replacing him from within the congregation they had flown in a pastor from
I was always fascinated by the pharisees. When I learned that they had created a whole model of living that had the weight of scripture with extrascriptural practices I could see why Jesus, the inspirer of scripture, was so mad at them. Neil Cole says we're doing the same thing now. Along the same line,
and on this hangs everything.