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Imagination and Ministry
Weekly Message from Bishop Willimon 12.11.2006 IMAGINATION AND MINISTRY “The Bible is a book of the imagination.” So writes Harvard’s Peter Gomes. One reason why Peter is such a great preacher, and biblical interpreter, is that he has a fertile imagination. It is as if Scripture has as its purpose to stoke, to fund, and […]
Worship (Michael Frost)
From an interview on The Spirit of Things…. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1788313.htm#transcript Some interesting comments on the nature of love as expressed in worship… Rachael Kohn: One of the trends in contemporary Christian worship is to bring Christianity to the masses in the forms that the masses are familiar with, particularly rock bands. And the sort of songs […]
Pastors’ Kids
Raising a P.K. Compiled by Tamara Colver, Jason Huffman and Jessica Snow, children of three pastors “They (Pastor’s Kids) are fortunate to be exposed to some of the greatest riches under heaven, as well as the deepest pain on earth. They are children who have been selected by God to experience His work from a […]
Resisting the Clutches of Consumerism
December 05, 2006 11:49 AM Resisting the Clutches of Consumerism Our government no longer refers to us as “citizens,” but as “consumers.” If we can get you to consume cigarettes, cars, mouthwash, and sedatives, then we can get you to consume people. That is why Calvin Klein uses soft kiddie porn to sell blue jeans. […]
Good hymns
From a pastor netfriend: I would include such names as Shirley Murray and Bill Wallace (NZ) and Andrew Pratt (Gt Britain). Their hymns efforts can be found in the following books: Murray. Faith forever singing. Wallace. The mystery telling. Pratt. Whatever name or creed. I use their creativity often in my weekly liturgies. These new […]
Two stories from Australian Baptist History
Heard two stories in a pastoral conversation with a senior Baptist lady today: (1) In the 1930s a Victorian Baptist College lecturer visited the study of a theological student and saw a small wooden cross on his desk. There was a meeting of the College Council, and the ‘Baptist Union’ about it, and the student […]
Youth Spirituality
——————————————————————————– The Spirituality of Generation Y – Michael Mason , Ruth Webber, Andrew Singleton, Philip Hughes A national study of the spirituality of Generation Y (people born 1976-1990) has been conducted by researchers from Australian Catholic University, Monash University and the Christian Research Association. The research consisted of a survey of a nationally representative sample […]
The Church has had its day
The Church has had its day…!” By David Allis Nov 2006 We’ve been asked to debate the moot ‘The church has had its day”, or maybe in product terms the debate would be that the church is ‘past it’s best by date’. With a little bit of thought, it’s obvious that at a higher level, […]
Pastors as Visionary Leaders
PASTORS AS VISIONARY LEADERS Weems lists the phases of thriving and declining organizations: original vision, growth and building the organization, maintenance, decline, recognized decline, crises or death. I feel that in the United Methodist Church we are in the period of at last recognizing our decline. I hope this leads to a crisis that provokes […]
New Churches, New Future
Penny Marler and Kirk Hadaway, veteran church observers, have documented that denominations grow, not primarily for ideological reasons (there was a time when we thought that “conservative,” “evangelical,” churches were growing churches, whereas “liberal,” churches declined), nor for primarily sociological reasons (some church growth observers contended that sociological similarities led to growing churches) but rather […]
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