I normally don’t get excited about church building campaigns. For good reason, I think, I am often skeptical, wondering if the construction of a bigger and better building is the best use of a church’s resources. A church’s emphasis on the outward structure rather than the inward life is often evidenced by endless building campaigns.
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My brother Joe has a strong desire to teach in the inner-city public school system. This video helped me to dream with him. Praise God for teachers like this. Even though Lindsay (the teacher in the above film) isn’t necessarily teaching the gospel to her students, she is gospel teaching. She is striving to do [...]

Propositions are important, but they depend on the stories out of which they arise for their power, meaning, and application.  Imagine having all the propositions of faith but none of the stories.  They would be true, but we wouldn’t know what to do with them.
Propositions are shorthand for story.  They stand in for stories that [...]

Denny Burk writes an excellent review of a new book, In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church.  This book is the autobiographical account of Gina Welch, a secular writer who studies Evangelicalism by infiltrating Jerry Falwell’s church through faking a conversion experience.
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In this article Marvin Olasky interviews Anthony Bradley, a black minister who grew up in the United Methodist Church.  It’s a worthy read.

Is it good to “live in the moment”?  This phrase has been used in at least two different ways, and my response is determined by the meaning intended by the phrase “live in the moment.”
Sometimes what is meant by the exhortation to “live in the moment” is the synonymic exhortation: wherever you are, be all [...]

Unfortunately, this is truth is not universally allowed and maintained by such as call themselves christians, anymore.  Not by a long shot.
“It is evident, by both scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy; that he stands in no need of, cannot be profited by, or receive anything from [...]

…because i love God.

DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.
“Does anyone fault [a man who loves his wife] for noting her every like and dislike? Is it clinical for him to desire to know the thoughts or longings of her heart?” Or to study her every move? Or to learn the language she [...]