Waiting for Final Resurrection

Two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What ...

Something New Every Day

See each day as a chance for something new to happen, something you never experienced before.

Original Thinking?

Original thinking is seldom original.

You Can't Just Sit There

Several years ago, I heard the story of Larry Walters, a 33-year-old man who decided he wanted to see his neighborhood from a new perspective.

He went ...

Forwarding the Gospel

The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to every generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly ...

No Useful Past

What is worrisome is the absolute domination of the present in so many homes, and the absence of any shared past. It isn't a class phenomenon so much ...

Losing Touch with Truth

What is largely missing in American life today is a sense of context, of saying or doing anything that is intended or even expected to live beyond the ...

Address the Changing World

If church leaders don't address the changing world, what was once a vital church will become, within a generation, the equivalent of a religious historical ...

Safe but Sterile

Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely the same train of thought, a kind of "party ...

Forever Out of Step?

The Rev. Greeley's first two laws of church: (1) When other people have abandoned something we discover it; (2) When people discover something wonderful ...