Month: December 2009

Bethelehem or Bethlehem Baptist Church?

Are you an evangelical snob? In his book, The First Five Pages, Noah Lukeman recounts the difficulty of getting a book published as an unknown author: Getting a novel published is extremely difficult, especially if you are an unknown author. Chuck Ross, a freelance writer, decided to test the system. He retyped the first twenty-one …

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Monday Musings

“mission is the mother of theology.” -Martin Kahler missiology.org

The Blind Side

I’ve not seen the movie The Blind Side yet, but I read two articles this morning that have inspired me even more to see the movie. The first is an article on Sandra Bullock who says that she has finally met Christian people who “walk the walk,” and that as a result she has some …

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Are You Too Big for God’s Call?

Tim Keller has posted an interesting article on his blog entitled, The Country Parson. In this article, Keller, the ardent advocate of urban church planting lauds the small country church as a training ground for young pastors. Keller is probably the last person you would ever expect to encourage pastors to live out their years in …

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