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Yeah Yeah Yeah

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...

Wokeness is (Even More) Not Winsome

by Mark Marshall | Jul 6, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Totalitarians, Vichycon, Woke Church

Two summers ago, I wrote here “Wokeness is Not Winsome.” I asserted that the notion that church focus on woke “justice” attracts people is a half-truth at best. Though wokeness attracts some, it drives off and repels core faithful Christians along with any number of...

Small Numbers

by Mark Marshall | Jun 26, 2023 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Church Growth, Jesus

We here at Stand Firm are normally not a sermon site. But numbers can be such an issue among Anglicans, I think I should make an exception and post the sermon on “small numbers” that I preached yesterday at Providence Reformed Episcopal Church, Corpus Christi.Most...

#136: Pitching Christ: The Real Jesus and the He Gets Us Campaign

by Matt Kennedy | Feb 17, 2023 | Church Growth, Go to Church, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick consider the “He Gets Us” ads, talk about bait and switch evangelism, and discuss how the Good News requires both law and gospel. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on iTunes. Want to...

What Is Sunday For?

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 1, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

I do not want to keep perseverating about the tweets of Dr. Kevin Young (not to be confused with those of Kevin DeYoung) because I am like to be blocked soon, but the way he puts things seems to be…I can’t quite find the word…maybe so 2011. They are the sorts of...

How Many Did You Expect?

by Anne Kennedy | May 1, 2022 | Anglicans, Baptists, Church Growth, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

At some point during the week, Matt got up this old T4G panel discussion (hat tip Denny Burk) between Carl Trueman and some—both then and now—very famous pastors. The session opens with some awkward joking about how Trueman has been very critical of the so-called...