The Archive
Day: July 26, 2010
How’s the coffee at your church?
Not all church coffee is bad, but the issue that poor church coffee raises is deeper and more troubling. It is that much of what we do as churches can often be described as substandard, second best, mediocre or weak.
Separation of TEC from Anglican Communion rejected
The Anglican Communion News Service reports on
Pastors and church musicians: friends, foes, or…
When this partnership suffers, congregational worship suffers. When the partnership is flourishing, the way is clear for us to foster dynamic worship.
WY Bishop consecration coloring book
You can download your own copy.
PB preaches in London
“Prophetic work is about more abundant life for the whole world, and it is about a home everywhere, a home for all.”
Man Church = Church Fail?
“church the way a man expects it to be done. No singing, short sermon, time to talk with other guys, no women present, and coffee and donuts. That’s the way men want to do church.”
Blessed Mary, never virgin? Part I
On one side, you have the Scripture, the creeds, and the faith of the Church; on the other, you have modern biology. According to our biological canons, we all know that human parthenogenesis is not medically attested. Lizards, yes; sharks, yes; humans, not so much. As a result there are two basic positions: either 1) we have miracle or 2) we have a miraculous explanation of a less-than-miraculous situation.
Camel-knees
James, the brother of the Lord, and the author of this Epistle, was nicknamed “Camel-knees” by the early Church. James had been so slow of heart to believe that his brother, Jesus, could possibly be the Christ, that, after he was brought to believe, he was never off his knees. And when they came to coffin him, it was like coffining the knees of a camel rather than the knees of a man, so hard, so worn, so stiff were they with prayer,