Category: Practical Theology
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Double the Church Sites, Double the Fun: Multi-Site Churches: Part 1
Read more: Double the Church Sites, Double the Fun: Multi-Site Churches: Part 1Over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be looking at multi-site churches. They represent an increasingly popular phenomenon, aided in no small part by advances in technology. In this first installment, we’ll look briefly at what multi-site churches are, with future installments looking at the arguments in favor of and against using such…
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Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving Forward
Read more: Biblical Manhood: Practical Suggestions for Moving ForwardThe biblical manhood series that I have been working on since the beginning of the blog comes to a conclusion in this post. I don’t have any jaw dropping critiques that will likely cause major disagreement; at least, I sure hope I don’t. In my last post, I laid out some points that I think…
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Reflecting on Work
Read more: Reflecting on WorkI recentlychanged jobs. I left the job that I had had since college and set out to do something else in the same field. The change was something I had been contemplating for a number of months before I finally actively pursued it. This decision was precipitated by several factors: a desire to try something…
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Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation
Read more: Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation“I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (John the Baptist, Mark 1:8) Although many of us are unable to follow, we really ought to commend the Pentecostals for doing something with the notion of Holy Spirit baptism. For the rest of us, it is subsumed under the…
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Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and Family
Read more: Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and FamilyBy Andrew Linderer The issue of men and women in the church seems to be a ticking time bomb in the modern American church. It has enormous potential to split churches, break up families, and leave people broken and confused. It’s a heated debate and often one that brings about a certain degree of petty…
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Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of Ideas
Read more: Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of IdeasOver the past few weeks, I have been critiquing the biblical manhood movement on a number of levels. While those first four posts were crucial in the series I am writing, I want to strike out on a bit of a different tact in these final two posts. In this post in particular, I have…
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Lessons Learned From Street Preachers: Part 2
Read more: Lessons Learned From Street Preachers: Part 2*This is the second post in a series where the practice of street preaching is put under scrutiny. The inspiration for this series comes from a street preacher I recently encountered at the local DMV. In my last post, I argued that the form of the message matters and that most contemporary street preachers do not…
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Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?
Read more: Biblical Manhood in Application: Are There Two Competing Visions for Biblical Manhood?Much of what I have been arguing for, or against, over the past couple of weeks has to do with what I believe is at the root of the misunderstanding surrounding proper applications of biblical manhood principles. I want to suggest that the biblical manhood movement puts crushing and often times unbiblical expectations on young…
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Call in the Understudy: Does Justification Play too much of a Leading Role on the Stage of Soteriology
Read more: Call in the Understudy: Does Justification Play too much of a Leading Role on the Stage of SoteriologyOver the last few decades, our precious protestant friend Justification has received a lot of tough press and some heavy abuse. Stendahl, Sanders, Dunn, and Wright have all added their contributions to the theological boxing tournament seeking to knock out an understanding of justification (esp in Pauline Literature) that may be more informed and conditioned…
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Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?
Read more: Sociological Data and Biblical Manhood: Insight Into the Issue or a Pathway to Problems?During the fall of 2007, the book Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman was hot off the press. I can still remember my peers telling me that they couldn’t wait to read it. As an employee at the Biola bookstore (what memories!), I figured I…