Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.15.06 in Current Events
All year long Christianity Today has been publishing a series of articles exploring how Christians can be a counterculture for the common good. Andy Crouch concludes the series with a penetrating article at the importance of knowing what’s important. In these days of enormous cultural confusion when we as Christians l …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.18.06 in Current Events, Theology
Marvin Olasky writes in the current issue of World magazine about apologizing in public (Click here to read comments on the World Magazine blog). Taking as his starting point that confession and repentance should accompany thanksgiving (a helpful fact to keep in mind five days before Thanksgiving), Olasky points out how har …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.10.06 in Current Events, Theology
It has been enlightening to read the many comments on the weblog this week. It’s clear that the Ted Haggard situation has touched a nerve inside the Christian community. Along that line, Eric Hogue asks, What is the appropriate “rehabilitation” for Ted Haggard? Marshall Shelley discusses the signs of a restorable spi …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.6.06 in Current Events, Theology
David Klinghoffer offers a wise perspective on Ted Haggard’s fall. The entire article deserves a close reading because he deals forthrightly with the question of whether or not homosexuality is inborn. In a sense, he answers yes, because all humans are born with a bias toward sin. Theologians call this the doctrine of …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.16.06 in Churches, Current Events
Here’s a significant statistic every church leader should know about . . . Married couples are now a minority in the U.S. For the first time ever, less than 50% of American households are made up of married couples. Here is the money quote:The numbers by no means suggest marriage is dead or necessarily that a tipping …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.7.06 in Churches, Current Events, Homosexuality, Theology
Mark Driscoll explains why the mainline denominations are in such a mess. He then offers these ten steps to destroying a denomination:1) Have a low view of Scripture and, consequently, the deity of Jesus. 2) Deny that we were made male and female by God, equal but with distinct roles in the home and church. 3) Ordain libera …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.3.06 in Current Events
Today Kevin McCullough and I had a very honest, wide-ranging discussion of the issues raised by the tragic shooting of ten students at an Amish schoolhouse yesterday. Click on this link to listen to the interview that included calls from listeners. We discussed the role of spiritual warfare, the reality of sin, why anger wi …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.3.06 in Current Events, Interviews
I am going to do an interview with Kevin McCullough on WMCA at 1:20 PM CDT to discuss yesterday’s tragic shooting of the Amish schoolchildren.
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.16.06 in Current Events
Today is Wash for Life . I hope this great idea spreads to thousands of youth groups next year.
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.25.06 in Current Events, Sermons
On Easter Sunday evening, Dr. Robert Rayburn of Faith Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington preached a remarkable sermon about a Lutheran minister named Henry Gerecke who served as a Army chaplain during World War II. Before the war, he served as a pastor in St. Louis and then became the director of the St. Louis Luther …
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