Whenever a celebrity claims to be a Christian, we make a huge deal about it. While there’s nothing wrong with being glad a famous person has come to Christ (duh), there’s a risk to it too. Our desire that a famous person would really be one of us can blind us to warning signs that … Continue reading How to Evaluate Christian Celebrities
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Tongues: What Is It and Is It Available Today?
The gift of tongues is, quite possibly, the most misunderstood of the apostolic gifts in scripture. The general impression in the church today is that the gift of tongues is the ability to speak unintelligible ecstatic utterances that are incomprehensible to those listening. Typically, proponents will characterize this as a ‘private prayer language’, ‘angelic language’ … Continue reading Tongues: What Is It and Is It Available Today?
Is Prophecy a Gift for Today?
The topic of spiritual gifts is a hot topic in the church today, one fraught with emotion and sacred cows. Prophecy is, I believe, the most important of these gifts to get right because, if we get it wrong, it carries great danger to the church. I realize this is a controversial issue, but if … Continue reading Is Prophecy a Gift for Today?
How do we keep toxic politics out of the church?
If you, like me, have the great misfortune of being interested in the news, you have noticed a major problem with our political dialogue. It is way too intense. This is not a good situation, but it is not an irreparable problem either. What concerns me most is that I see it starting to make … Continue reading How do we keep toxic politics out of the church?
Toxic Wokeness: A Biblical Critique of Intersectionality
Intersectionality has become all the rage in a sizeable (and loud) portion of the American church in the last few years, and its effects are being felt in the ‘woke church’ movement. Recently, the Southern Baptist Convention issues a (in my opinion tepid) resolution addressing it that, while saying it’s beneath scripture it is a … Continue reading Toxic Wokeness: A Biblical Critique of Intersectionality
Social Justice And The Church That Talks to Dead People
We live in interesting times. The kind of times where a church has a medium (the kind who talk to dead people) on staff. At first blush, this seems like sensational weirdness that doesn’t have any bearing on our lives, but when we look deeper there are indeed lessons we can draw from this - … Continue reading Social Justice And The Church That Talks to Dead People
4 Important Things Women Can Do In The Church
The issue of women as pastors has, for some strange reason, been a difficult one for the church in America for the last few decades. It’s still a problem today, as evidenced by the recent controversy in the SBC, sparked off by Beth Moore bragging about how she would be preaching for Mother’s Day, in … Continue reading 4 Important Things Women Can Do In The Church
4 Reasons Not To Wear Leggings (From A Guy)
A couple of months ago, a Catholic mom stirred up controversy by writing an open letter begging female college students to stop wearing leggings as pants, out of respect for their male colleagues. This was met with a severe backlash in the form of Twitter outrage and Leggings Pride Day (of course), led by gender … Continue reading 4 Reasons Not To Wear Leggings (From A Guy)
What Is The Role Of Race In The Church?
In the last few years, there has been a surprising amount of controversy around race in the church. People are actually confused about how Christians of different races should relate to each other, because everything is stupid. The confusion centers primarily, if not exclusively, (at least in the U.S.) on how white Christians and black … Continue reading What Is The Role Of Race In The Church?
How To Identify A Heretic (And What To Do About It)
Recently, Francis Chan has been doing some… concerning things. He has apparently (that’s important) endorsed some prosperity ‘gospel’ preachers, and is getting concerningly close to them. I’m not saying he’s a heretic, I’ll leave that to crazy YouTube channels who call everyone a HERETIC in ALL CAPS, because REASONS. I saw one of those already, … Continue reading How To Identify A Heretic (And What To Do About It)
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