by Mark Marshall | Nov 19, 2024 | Church Growth, History, Justice, Social Justice, U.S. Politics
Note: the first article in this brief series, After the Celebration, may be found here.——Although, again, I fully realize not all celebrated this past election, there are results that should evoke rejoicing. Here I am not thinking about vote totals and political...
by Matt Kennedy | Sep 27, 2024 | Church Growth, Go to Church, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick—after touching on the Steve Lawson revelations—discuss the idea of church “porches,” spaces designed to woo non-Christians, and then talk about what the Sunday service is actually for. Need...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 16, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
The lections today are particularly apt because, it being mid-June, I am gardening furiously. Living in the Northeast as I do, the growing season feels cruelly short. No one–this year was an exception–is supposed to put anything in the ground before...
by Matt Kennedy | Apr 19, 2024 | Church Growth, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Sexuality, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the church and masculinity in light of the recent Stronger Men’s Conference before turning their attention to a comparison between hired hands (John 10) and exvangelicalism. Need more Stand...
by Matt Kennedy | Mar 22, 2024 | Abortion, Church Growth, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, U.S. Politics
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Jady and Nick welcome Shane Morris of the Colson Center to the podcast. They consider the supposed difference between private faith and public discourse, talk about life “with the grain” of God’s good...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 13, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
Photo by Nick Moore on Unsplash You may have come across a song in the last few days that has been downloaded an exceptionally high number of times. I was listening to it myself when I happened to click over to the lections for today, at which point I sighed heavily...
