John Armstrong hits the ball out of the park once again with Christ Alone or Christ Plus?

[S]ymphonic theology, as I conceive it, involves learning how to learn more from other people, by listening sympathetically. Other people have both good and bad ideas. By looking for the “grain of truth” even in some bad idea, we can sometimes find a starting point for a new perspective or a a piece of truth [...]

With permission of Rev. Mark Horne (blog), I’m posting here in full his essay “Do I Have to Go to Church?” as an indirect response to some of my recent musings about church and pastoral ministry as we know them today (here and here), as well as the “Personal Relationship with Jesus” discussion. I was [...]

When St. John wanted to tell us about the Gospel, its curious that he didn’t say, “Here are the main propositions about Jesus” or “Here are ten ways to apply the teachings of Jesus to your life.” He didn’t talk about Jesus as an idea, a concept. Instead, he spoke about that “which we have [...]

This is one of my rare movie reviews, serving to prove once again that Sacred Journey is the best spot on the Web to find out about movies that have been out for two years Since coming to seminary, Karyn and I don’t watch many movies. They take an hour-and-a-half to three hour commitment [...]

…to say how much I love my LSW (Long Suffering Wife) Karyn!
I just wanted to trumpet to this small part of the world that Karyn and I have been married 28 years as of today.
At this moment (10:28 EDT) 28 years ago…I was begging the men of Old First Church in Cedar Grove, NJ, to [...]

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
- Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
The following is my [...]

Many of you have followed our story of traveling to southern Sudan with a team from our church. Our community of believers charged us to go not only to do work while we were there, but to be eyes and ears for the Body of Christ back here. We were to go and bring back [...]

Just had to post this picture of my camera-ham North Carolina grandchildren, Ethan and Maggie.

Looks like Maggie has just decided that Ritz crackers are the best thing since drip-free Huggies. And Ethan’s saying, “Yeah…I knew that.”

OK, I don’t really want to murder Evangelicalism. Maybe just throttle it a little. Perhaps box its ears. But when I see things like what I discuss below, I am tempted to slip a few unmarked hundreds under the table to my local neighborhood hit man.
Logos Bible Software has just announced one of its newest [...]