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Holy Weirdness: Bethel Church’s Bill ‘Glitterati’ Johnson Demonstrated His Ignorance of the Holy Spirit.
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (595+ words) “O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus…...
Sometime Evil Demands a Response: Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville, VA, and Anglican Watch
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (807+ words) “You know what the biologists mean by a parasite—an animal that lives on another animal. Evil is a parasite. It is there only because good is there for it to spoil and confuse.” CS Lewis Today’s post is introducing…...
How Do the Ed Youngs of the World Gain Unlimited Control of Their Churches? The Pewsitters Are Too Bored to Vote.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1076+ words) “Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.” St Jerome Mark Wingfield, executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global, wrote Why you should…...
Five Views of Christian Nationalism: Al Mohler and Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney, Oh My!
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (989+ words) My concern in this post was a drift of the SBC toward the more rigid views of Doug Wilson. I asked Wade if I was being overly dramatic, but he assured me I wasn’t. Here’s what I wrote in that…...
Honoring the Well-Lived Life of Dr John Lennox: Mathematician, Theologian, and Servant
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (438+ words) “God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very…...
Al Mohler and John Piper Have Lost the Creation Order™ Debate When It Comes to the Military and Some Authority. I Think Many Further Battles Will Be Lost.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (496+ words) “We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.” CS Lewis At the same time, men like Jon Piper were fighting back. I would assume that Piper is a believer in the creation order,…...
Two Wheaton College Presidents Appeared to Protect the ‘Good Name’ of the Institution Over the Care of Those They Serve.
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (1619+ words) “The heart of galaxy M77 is shining so brightly in this Webb telescope image, it nearly outshines the galaxy itself. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled into a tight and rapid orbit around the central black hole. The…...
I Will No Longer Post EChurch@Wartburg Do to the Increase of Social Media by Most Churches
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (133+ words) Please feel free to comment. I needed to find some margin in my life. I felt this would be an appropriate time to discontinue EChurch, as most churches and some parachurch organizations are now filming their worship services. I will…...
When Sheep Bite or What Happens When the Tables Are Turned?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (820+ words) “People could put up with being bitten by a wolf, but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses Many at TWW know I am not a Calvinist. The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, does not…...
Due to a Very Bad, No Good, ‘Wish It Were Sunday’ Monday: This Post Is a Free for All
5+ mon, 18+ hour ago (201+ words) “I’ve had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul don’t worry Dee … “Just remember, even your worst days only have twenty-four hours” (Yogi Berra) Dee,…...