This is something I wrote back in 2006 and I just came across it today. Since writing this, my wife and I have had a chance to visit the Billy Graham museum and, honestly,I feel like the criticisms of the cow were a bit overblown. Nevertheless, the sentiment of what I shared here still stands. "We have become so performance oriented that it is hard to see how compromise...

Yesterday, Tim Challies wrote a post he called "The Worst Consequence of Skipping Church." In it he articulated something that I reminded the members of my previous churches often from the pulpit: "Sunday morning is not about having some one-on-one time with God, it is about the gathering of God's people together to worship Him as one, to encourage one another, and stir on...

The Dove Awards have always fascinated me- and not in a good way.They seem to run so counter to the Christian value of humility and self-forgetfulness as well as the fact that God's pleasure is to be thegoal of our worship and of all that we do to facilitate that worship- not man's praise. I'd love to talk with whoever came up with the idea and and try to understand their ...

In a message entitled "The Issue in the Church," J. Gresham Machen (preaching sometime before his death in 1937) said some things as relevant and important for us to hear as they were in his day: "The world of today is hoping for something new. Things that seemed to be new have proved to be old; the newness of modern inventions has been found not to touch the depths of li...

"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual." C.S. Lewis from A Preface to 'Paradise Lost'...

One of the best descriptions of the experience of liberal Christianity I have read...

"There is nothing to which we are more prone than to offer God pretended worship whenever He calls us to repentance." John Calvin...

Confession based upon Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Phil. 1:6: Our LORD our God, we confess that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed. Our continuing sin lays bare the truth that we have not loved You with our whole hearts. We have not kept your commandments nor impressed them upon our children as we should. Holiness has not been the full adornment of our lives o...

An excerpt rom a recent e-newsletter by James Kushiner, an editor of Touchstone Magazine: Much of the demise of Christianity in the West occurred during a period when Christians failed to notice, or if they did, failed to respond to the shallowness of what passed for Christian faith in the mid- and late- twentieth century. Though not all Christians failed to notice it. It...

Had you noticed that your Bible doesn't have a John 5:4 in it? Go ahead, look it up. There is verse 3 and then verse 5. What happened to verse 4? It is not included in most modern translations. Why is that? Is it a big coverup that has something to do with the DaVinci Code and we need Tom Hanks to come figure out what it is the church has been hiding all these years? No,...