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Tag Archives: pastor
Don’t Miss List: Stanley Bashes Small Churches, Break up with Osteen and More
Andy Stanley Claims People are ‘Selfish’ for Choosing Small Churches There’s an uproar going on after North Point pastor Andy Stanley bashed small churches and insulted people who choose them by calling them “selfish” and claiming they don’t love their … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Life, Church Movements, Discernment, In The News, Sermons
Tagged abuse, Andy Stanley, Bible teaching, Brian Houston, CEOs, false teaching, Grace to You, Heresy, HIllsong, Joel Osteen, lawsuit, mark driscoll, Mars Hill Church Seattle, megachurch, pastor, prosperity gospel, prosperity heresy, RICO, selfish, shepherds, small churches, Steven Furtick, syncretism, Together16, youth group
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Persecution Updates: Good News from Ireland
On the persecution beat, positive stories are rare. I was happy to get to write this one about an Irish pastor’s acquittal.
Posted in My journalism, Persecution, Uncategorized
Tagged acquitted, court case, doctrine, free speech, hate speech, Ireland, islam, James McConnell, law, legal, pastor, prison, theology
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Thoughts about the Refugee Crisis from a Pastor on the Front Lines
The refugee crisis in Europe has been in the headlines for months and probably won’t go away anytime soon. A couple of months ago I interviewed some people living in Hungary, about the situation. One of my contacts was Calvary … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Life, In The News
Tagged balance, calvary chapel, conflict, Europe, fear, Hungary, love, love thy neighbor, Middle East, pastor, phil metzger, refugee crisis, refugees, terrorism, war
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Don’t Miss List for May 22, 2015
Before you check out for the three-day weekend or beach getaway or whatever you’re doing this Memorial Day, here’s a Don’t Miss List.
Posted in Bookshelf, Christian Life, Contemplative Spirituality, Evangelism, In The News, The Word
Tagged Beth Moore, Books, Christian businesses, contemplative prayer, evangelism, first edition, gay marriage, gay weddings, gospel, Greg Stier, Heresy, John MacArthur, Lutheran, martin luther, Mary Magdalene, music, New Testament, pastor, Prayer, Rick Warren, tithe, word of faith
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The Ordinary Graces of God
No, there’s not mistake in the title of this post. It’s true that God’s grace is extraordinary, but the ways the Bible teaches us to interact with him are what at least one pastor has called ordinary graces.
Posted in Christian Life
Tagged baptism, Bible Study, christianity, graces of God, ordinary, pastor, Prayer, worship
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J.D. Greear’s Thoughts about Jesus’ Suffering
Pastor J.D. Greear has a thoughtful post called Three Lessons from Jesus in His Darkest Valley. Although it focuses on Gethsemane, I still find it helpful this Good Friday morning.
Posted in Christian Life
Tagged crucifixion, Garden of Gethsemane, Holy Week, J.D. Greear, Jesus, lessons from Jesus, pastor
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Flashback: “We’re going to root this stuff out of our ministry.”
A year ago today, I shared a message from The First Baptist Church of Johnson City, N.Y. in which the pastor apologized to his congregation and delivered one of the most thorough warnings about false teaching I’ve heard. It is … Continue reading
Christians – Let’s Not Do This
I’ve made my views about homosexuality clear in a prior post about Andy Stanley, noting that the Bible clearly labels it a sin (in the Old and New Testaments) along with other forms of sexual sin and in addition to … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
Tagged Bible, bigotry, Christ, Christian, christianity, faith, gay, God, grace, homosexuality, Jesus, pastor, religion, romans 3:23, romans 5:8, saved by grace, sin
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