Archive for January, 2009
Annual Super Bowl Edition Gets Slammed … Again
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Today the mail brought me a stack of returned Evangels, unopened, with a letter from a pastor, that said, in part, the following:
“I am returning these Evangels in a form of protest at the ever increasing level of worldliness of the magazine…. If I desired a Sports Illustrated I would subscribe to such a periodical. […]
Update on My Wife’s Cancer
Monday, January 26th, 2009Thanks to all of you who have told me you are praying. Since I first talked about this in this blog, Peggy has had surgery and is recovering. The tumor was larger than anticipated, so in a few weeks she will begin chemo. We had hoped this wouldn’t be necessary but it has turned out […]
State of the Church
Friday, January 16th, 2009A retired pastor who has been reading my revival series in TPE sent me this article. I reproduce it here exactly as I received it. Feel free to send feedback.
THE STATE OF THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH – By John T. Charter
After 10 years of retirement, following 40 years as a fulltime Pastor, I have some disturbing […]
We Need Tradition, Not Traditionalism
Thursday, January 1st, 2009It has been said:
Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people; tradition is the living faith of dead people.
I believe in the value of Godly traditions; too many are being jettisoned in our current, major cultural shift. But I do not believe in a hollow legalism that supports only pasty-faced Christians devoid of spiritual vitality.
Let […]
