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Update on New York public school/church issue

From Tim Challies’ a la carte section: In New York, Police arrested 43 protestors outside a school where Mayor Bloomberg was speaking on Thursday. The protestors were pastors and lay people protesting the New York City school board’s decision, upheld by Federal courts and ignored by the Supreme Court, to ban Christian churches from renting [...]

January 14, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: christian culture, If you're not outraged..., worship and the church  No Comments

Most of the time

As a worship leader I am often confronted with the idea of how the music I select will be received by the congregation. Most of the time, I am able to set that aside because the reality is, I believe – for the most part – that the music I select has very little to [...]

December 21, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: christian culture, music, worship and the church  No Comments

What Does God Look Like?

If someone came up to you on the street and said, “what is your concept of God?” what would you say? Dr. Foos, one of my professors at Moody, had us go out during class one day and ask people “What do you think of when you hear the word “God”? It was fascinating. So [...]

December 19, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, stuff to think about  No Comments

Two and two for Tebow on Tuesday

If you haven’t noticed (and if you don’t pay attention to the NFL, you might not have) Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is something of a lightening rod these days. Jim Rome said yesterday that Tim Tebow is the most polarizing figure in the history of the world. Uh…okay. I’ve run across a few articles [...]

December 13, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, Sports  No Comments

Confessions of a Christmas music disliker (part 2)

I have a second confession: December is the hardest month for me to plan worship. There are two reasons. One, Christmas carols are hard for me to play. But secondly, and more importantly, I can’t get past the fact that the vast majority of Christmas songs are incarnation songs, not advent songs. So while we’re [...]

December 6, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, music  No Comments

On having no idea. Or…to have nici un habar.

Sometimes I have no idea what I’m going to write about when I sit down to write a post for the blog. That probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given some of the output. But other times I have ideas floating around in my head (or even written down in random flies strewn [...]

November 16, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, the blog  No Comments

Classic Christian Music group of the day

All these records got me juiced up to dive into my classic Christian rock collection. And since I lived through the 70s and 80s, I have a few albums that qualify. Today’s group was the Daniel Band. The Daniel Band was an early 80s Christian rock group from Canada. In fact, they were the early [...]

November 1, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, music  No Comments

Shema

Shema Yisrael, Adonai eloheinu Adonai echad. “Hear O Israel, the Lord (YHWH) is our God, the Lord (YHWH) is one.” We are going to say the shema together tomorrow during our church service. In Hebrew. Should be fun. I suggested it to our pastor because, well, he’ll be preaching on Deuteronomy chapter 6 so it [...]

August 27, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture, stuff to think about, worship and the church  2 Comments

Position Available: Debating William Lane Craig

I’ve never read any of Craig’s books, although I’ve heard of him and read some transcripts from other debates. So I am hardly an authority on his apologetics. But it’s hard to understand why no one wants to debate him. Either he’s such a jerk that no one wants to share the stage, or he’s [...]

August 19, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture  No Comments

Did Campus Crusade jump the shark?

It seems there’s been a strong reaction to Campus Crusade for Christ changing their name to “Cru.” “They’re taking Christ out of their name!” and other such comments are flying, criticizing the organization for political correctness and all sorts of falling away from the gospel. It doesn’t help that FoxNews has the subtitle “Ministry Drops [...]

July 21, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: christian culture  One Comment