Leadership
True (And False) Transformation
Two counterfeit forms of spiritual maturity, and one way to find the real thing. John Ortberg Hank had been a Christian for 50 years. By the time I came to pastor Hank’s church, he was an old cranky guy. He had been a member there since he was a young cranky guy. Hank complained about […]
Boreham On Preaching
From Rev. Dr. Geoff Pound [12 November 2002]: F W Boreham wrote many things about preaching. I am encouraging one of my students to write a thesis on the preaching style of FWB. He gave a series of lectures in South Australia on preaching. I have searched libraries but this magazine account is the best […]
What Is Wrong With Contemporary Worship
The current “charismatic” style of worship is largely a construct of the ‘baby boomer’ generation in a reaction against structured liturgical worship. It has captured the imagination of the larger church and has effectively quashed any alternative forms of worship and more importantly, creates a destructive dichotomy in the mind of the believer forcing them […]
In-Basket Time Management
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-221 IN-BASKET TIME MANAGEMENT From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Remember how short my time is! Psalm 89:47. A man on a horse was galloping along the road. An old farmer standing in his field called out, ‘Hey, William, […]
Concluding A Worship Service
A Netfriend asked: After years of finishing worship with a 3-fold amen, someone has suggested we conclude worship singing “Now Unto Him”. I’ve got to say that the tune for this song reminds me of a song sung in a German beer hall at the ened of the night which serves to put those not […]
Report From Copenhagen (Bill Hybels)
Dear E-News Friends, Maybe the best way to describe what happened at the Copenhagen Conference is to begin at the end. Some of you Creekers who used to go to rock concerts remember that if a concert went over the top, everybody lit their cigarette lighters and waved them back and forth over their heads […]
Hymns: Aaronic Blessing
A Netfriend wrote: Not sure how you conclude worship however in the NCYC2003 new songs there is a new (and much better) version of the Aaronic blessing… which is much better than the ‘usual’ one… You could use it in baptisms AND I think as a worship conclusion…. I think it is also written by […]
Going, Going, Gone: Churches Have Changed
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-154 (General Information) THE CHURCH – GOING, GOING, GONE by Terry Mattingly For two millennia, if you knew a church’s name then you knew something about the people inside its doors. Church names stood for timeless saints and traditions — from the Church of the Nativity to the Church of the Resurrection. […]
Is Christian Music Sick?
Excerpts from ‘IS CHRISTIAN MUSIC SICK?’ by Vic Campbell (On Being, December 1987 – January 1988, pp 62-63) Were Larry Norman’s predictions correct? Larry Norman is the father of Christian Rock, famous for songs like ‘Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?’. ****************** …. I also quizzed veteran performer Larry Norman on the […]
John Ralston Saul And The ‘Experts’
From a Net-friend: It’s interesting that people see the blurring of disciplinary boundaries as a negative or disadvatage. I certainly think that we have a lot to gain from cross disciplinary pollenation. This has always just seemed to make sense to me but I was recently reading a bit more of John Ralston Saul’s ‘Voltaire’s […]
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