When It Stinks To Be Me
Those that are part of Mercy Church know that I often feel compelled to expose, denounce and decry the co-option of the church by politics (aka idols of civil religion). I sometimes have a very...
View ArticleThe Pastor and Job Satisfaction – I Live a Craft – Todd Rhodes at MMI
I received an email this morning from a friend passing on an old article written by Eugene Peterson. This first appeared almost ten years ago in Leadership Journal, but its insight and advice is great...
View ArticleA.W. Tozer: A Passion for God
[Shel: Tim Challees posts this review (see below) of a biography of Tozer. Thankfully it is a real one and not simply a positive side only hagiography of Tozer. Tozer looms large as a leading...
View ArticleThings That Have Been Bothering Me 1.2
So Im in my morning groove. Drop kids off, check the church mail, make sure the building isn’t on fire, do the post-office box runs, mail packages, land at a coffee shop to practice daily office...
View ArticleInternetmonk: The Insight of Nuns
The Insight of Nuns from internetmonk.com by Chaplain Mike By Chaplain Mike Many years ago, I read an article about Bill Leslie, pastor of the inner city Lasalle St. Church in Chicago. This demanding...
View ArticleEight Traits of a Responsible Ministry – A Tweak of Pope Piper’s “Masculine...
Shel Boese / Shelby Boese – the Neo-Reformed-Fundamentalists NeRFs (aka Latter Day Border-Line Gnostics: LDGs) [This is my terminology in process] get it sort-of, kind-of right. Caplain Mike has a...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Make of “Passion” (Conferences)? Guest Blog by Austin Fischer
A repost from Roger’s Blog January 9, 2013: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2013/01/what-would-jesus-make-of-passion-conferences-guest-blog-by-austin-fischer What Would Jesus Make of Passion?...
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