Chris – I can understand having elements of worship that are accessible for those outside the faith.  I would say our worship should be welcoming for everyone, and that is what I think I hear you saying.  I am not in favor of a worship service that is directed towards those outside of the faith, [...]

The conversation seems to be operating under the assumption that worship is the main and or only entrance into the Christian community, and I do not accept that. I also do not think it is appropriate. If our main concern for worship liturgy is that we would lose our ability to assimilate the unchurched into [...]

I’d like to hope that, if he were around today, Paul would never do one of those ridiculous milk mustache commercials. Justin – that’s interesting to hear your experience with that. I’ve never had the pleasure of hearing one of those sermons. In my context, where I’ve heard “baby Christians” in church talk, it has [...]

I am new here.  I never met, nor had contact with Michael.  However, I listened to almost all his podcasts, read lots on IM, and loved his Coffee Cup apologetics podcast.  I listen to several podcasts, with one being Issues Etc, which I began listening to after he was on it.  They still play a [...]

Prayers

Jaredd: Man I’m so sorry that you and your family are going through this. I’ve been praying for your son and your family. God’s grace, peace, and healing to your son.

Fearsome Tycoon writes: “Yeah, this is pretty much made of cow buttholes and a random guy that fell into the machine.” For the record, I think Frank Viola ought to tweet this quote as well.

Where two topics meat

I totally agree with you FT.  And I’m of the former as well.  When there was that stink about Taco Bell meat a little while back, I kept thinking, “but it’s Taco Bell.  What do you expect for what you are paying?”  I think the goal is to not get sick, and if you avoid [...]

To be honest, I know very little about Piper, so I’m kind of indifferent.  He’s really Calvinist, I’m really not.  I have pretty strong feelings about what I see as severe faults in calvinism, but I understand that some good Christian folks don’t see things the way I do.  Because of this, I’m just not [...]

Chris Hubbs writes: he writes that the good works we do aren’t simply to fulfill some moral code but are in fact an act of establishing the bulkhead of Jesus’ kingdom on earth. All of a sudden I’m connecting dots with the command to give a cup of water in Jesus’ name and the “in [...]

If it weren’t for Luther’s two kingdoms theology we wouldn’t have Indonesian monkey butt-coffee. Clearly, John Wesley was against monkey butt coffee regardless of its origins as evident from his writings, “Against Monkey Butt Coffee” and “Things I Wouldn’t Drink Calmly Considered.”