Why is it we look at some jobs and label them sacred, and we look at other jobs and call them secular? Does God look at jobs one way or the other? Does He look down His nose at some jobs, calling them secular and lift up other jobs in His arms and say these are sacred? I
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” -I Corinthians 13:11, NIV Most of my fellow pastors are ill-equipped to handle situations where adultery is present. Seminary trains us … Continue reading "Too trusting and naive"
By Greg Laurie – We have a longing for something this earth never can deliver. Only Heaven can. Earth is a pale version of Heaven.
We live in a great country, a country where almost any person can grow up to become the president, a country that still attracts thousands of new people every year, a country that provides an oppor…
In France, a week after Samuel Paty was decapitated by a Muslim extremist for showing cartoon drawings of the prophet Muhammed in a high school class, three others were killed in a church in Nice. One of the victims was decapitated in the knife attack and the attacker identified himself as a Muslim, screaming “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out the attack. Emmanuel Macron doubled down on his commitment to protect France’s secular order and root out Islamic terrorism. This puts Macron in an inter…
I spent my first few years of ministry as a bi-vocational pastor. I’m going to share 5 suggestions of things I believe you should do, followed by 5 suggestions of things I would suggest you should not.
Let me state up front the point of this blog. (If that’s all you want to know, you can then go back to watching videos of kittens.) The eary church thrived in a culture of secularism and unbelief, …
By most modern metrics of church growth, Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill could easily be deemed ineffective and unfruitful.Acts 17:34names only two converts from the gathering he drew in Athens—Dionysius and a woman named Damaris. That small harvest somehow looks less spectacular than the revivals Paul saw in Antioch or Thessalonica. But Paul had a
[This week I had the honor of writing a guest post for one of my favorite blogs, christianmomthoughts.com by Natasha Crain. Be sure and subscribe to her blog for great parenting advice on how to teach apologetics to your kids!] As a worship leader and as a parent, I have...
Ministry Confronts Secularisation by Sam Hey Dr Sam Hey teaches at the School of Ministries, Christian Heritage College, Brisbane, a ministry of Christian Outreach Centre. In this paper, ad…