That's the question that Out of Ur poses today: I’ve got a special treat for you to commemorate Independence Day—a preview of the summer issue of Leadership due out later this month. The issue focuses on the intersection of church ministry and politics (not an irrelevant subject this year). Here is a snippet featuring Charles …
When Christian Ministers Bail Out on Marrying People
In the wake of California's mandating same sex civil marriages, some in that state are considering just that: Some clergy think churches should divorce themselves from the wedding business. The controversy over same-sex marriage – along with a growing sense that many couples who marry in churches never return – has prompted faith leaders to …
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GAFCON: Where Everyone Raises Their Hands and Praises the Lord
David Virtue offers us a "photo gallery" of the end of the GAFCON meeting in Jerusalem, highlighting the final agreement the conservative Anglican gathering came to. But take a look at this photo after the signing: Pentecostals and Charismatics spend a lot of time emphasising how they raise their hands to praise the Lord--and how …
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Tim Hill at the Tennessee Campmeeting
This week's podcast features Rev. Tim Hill, Second Assistant General Overseer of the Church of God, address the Tennessee State Campmeeting on Tuesday, 17 June 2008. For those of you not in the Church of God, it will give you a look at what a Pentecostal campmeeting actually looks like. (The award for the 55-year …
Alpha Omega Campus Ministries
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On Dobson, Obama, and the Road to Eternal Life
I have to say that the back and forth between James Dobson and Barack Obama on the Bible is one of the least edifying discussions we have going this election year. So Obama says that Leviticus tells us we can't eat shellfish? Evidently Jeremiah Wright, like many of his counterparts on the right, never bothered …
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Apologetics for the Rest of Us
There's no question Christians and Christianity face many challengers these days. But how do you answer them? What do you say when people ask, “Where does the Bible come from?” Or, “How do you know that God exists?” Or, “Isn’t Christ just a myth?” It is important not only to know what you believe, but …
When We Let the State Take Over God’s Role…
...we get problems like this: The Rev. Jack Hibbs, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, said: “These judges crossed over from the realm of judicial or legislative powers into the church. They stepped inside of our churches, inside of our pulpits, inside of our Bible and redefined marriage for us.” The sooner we start …
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Moses Maimonides on Prophecy
From his Guide to the Perplexed (II, XXXII): THERE are as many different opinions concerning Prophecy as concerning the Eternity or Non-Eternity of the Universe. For we have shown that those who assume the existence of God as proved may be divided into three classes, according to the view they take of the question, whether …
The End of Personal Evangelism is the End of England
This from (and note the source!) Investors Business Daily: British media are reporting that Arthur Cunningham and Joseph Abraham, American evangelical ministers who've been living in Great Britain for years, were told by a police community support officer to "stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham." Cunningham said the officer …
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