The Boring Church

Because we have been so willing to accommodate the message of the Bible to the limitations of contemporary culture, the modern world does not regard the ...

Trivial Pursuit in Church

Trivialization in the church, as in society, results in a loss of the ability to think. Christians are lured to view the world as the world views itself--uncritically ...

When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.

Now there is nothing wrong with ...

Settling for Less

Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens ...

Is Christianity Better than Truth?

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself ...

Swim for Your Life

Our society is not a community radiant with the love of Christ, but a dangerous network of domination and manipulation in which we can easily get entangled ...

Searching for Compromise

[Worldly] compromise is so hard to find. It is not an issue that you easily identify, fight, picket, or bomb. It's slippery. It's illusive. It ...

To Stand or to Swim?

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.