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Why Do We Worship the Way We Have Always Worshiped When People Keep Changing?
by N. Graham Standish For most of my life I have really disliked worship. My wife tells me that if I weren’t a pastor, I would never go to worship. Fifteen years ago she was right about that, although I have managed to change over time. I am a constant tinkerer when it comes to […]
Young adults abandon the church
The Leavers: Young Doubters Exit the Church More than in previous generations, 20- and 30- somethings are abandoning the faith. Why? Drew Dyck | posted 11/19/2010 10:13AM Some striking mile markers appear on the road through young adulthood: leaving for college, getting the first job and apartment, starting a career, getting married ¢â‚¬”and, for many people […]
Churches called to observe a minute’s silence on Forget-me-knot weekend
November 11, 2010 Uniting Church Moderator the Rev. Niall Reid has encouraged church members to observe Forget-me-knot Day, November 12, when Australians show their support for the more than two million adult survivors of childhood abuse. In addition to sending information to Uniting Church ministers with suggested liturgies (see below), Mr Reid has participated in […]
Weird Christians
Monk Classic: Signs I ¢â‚¬â„¢m Weary of Weird Christians November 6, 2010 by iMonk Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer NOTE FROM CM: Here is Michael at his best ¢â‚¬”forthright, incisive, passionate, hilarious, and clear. I love what he says about the ¢â‚¬Å“NORMAL ¢â‚¬ Christian life. So they said to him, ¢â‚¬Å“Then what sign do you do, that […]
Catholic Drift
*Sightings* 11/01/2010 *Catholic Drift* – Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Everybody ¢â‚¬â„¢s talking ¢â‚¬ about data detailing decline of church and synagogue participation as revealed in a Pew Forum and by Putnam and Campbell in their new book *American Grace.* ¢â‚¬Å“Everybody ¢â‚¬ includes atheists, agnostics, ¢â‚¬Å“nones, ¢â‚¬ Protestants, Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, and Mormons but not the Catholic bishops. So too judges […]
CRACKS IN THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
I have been watching over the past two years with a growing sense of sadness the financial crisis overwhelming the Crystal Cathedral, the famous TV Church in Garden Grove California. This was the home of the televangelist show “Hour of Power.” It has filed for bankruptcy in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt […]
GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN?
GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN? ie. which produces awe/goosebumps/real adoration for you? Mine: Hebrew – Isaiah 40, Psalm 23 Greek – Philippians 2:4-11 English – When I Survey, Jesus Joy of Loving Hearts Modern (last 50 years)? Pause… have to think about that… Be Exalted O God ? Yours? (I posted this on to Facebook, 11/10/2010: […]
A Great Communion Hymn
And now, O Father, mindful of the love And now, O Father, mindful of the love that bought us, once for all, on Calvary’s Tree, and having with us him that pleads above, we here present, we spread forth to thee that only Offering perfect in thine eyes, the one, true, pure, immortal Sacrifice. Look, […]
Discernment: binding and loosing
One of the most underutilised or misunderstood of the NT processes for ethical and doctrinal discernment as that of ‘binding and loosing’, most comprehensively outlined in Matthew 18 but also elsewhere. That is, that if we think someone is in error, then we go to them while it’s just the two of us; if it’s […]
Megachurches: ‘I have to admit: I don’t get it’
From Rowland: I wonder if he shops at Supermarkets? See my article on megachurches – http://jmm.org.au/articles/19701.htm ***** I have to admit: I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t get it September 27, 2010 by Chaplain Mike This is all kind of off the top of my head, so take it for what it is ¢â‚¬”an impromptu rant. OK, this may seem […]
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