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Latest Church Gossip…

by Tim Fountain | Dec 22, 2019 | Bible Study, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

…is waiting for you on the wide and comfy path to hell. We lump gossip in with cute human foibles that aren’t that big a deal. Spreading rumors is on a continuum somewhere between talking during a movie and double dipping a chip in the communal salsa. But...

Creature Comfort

by Tim Fountain | Dec 15, 2019 | Apostasy, Bible Study, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” (Revelation 5:13) When I was in...

They Will Know Us By Our Ability To Forgive

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 12, 2019 | Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel, Woke Church

I’ve just finished Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds. It is so good that I’m turning round and picking The Strange Death of Europe as soon as my new credit comes due. All the usual—I don’t agree with everything he says—caveating aside (which, honestly, is...

Building the Church

by Matt Kennedy | Dec 10, 2019 | Baptists, Church Growth, Episcopalians, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

It’s no secret that the Episcopal Church is dying. No walls, no borders, no outcasts, she boasts, and if nothing is done she will be able to add, nobody. The steep numerical decline of the Episcopal Church is comparable to that of the other theologically liberal...

A Special Advent-Christmas Mission Field

by Tim Fountain | Dec 8, 2019 | Anglicans, Jesus, The Gospel

Some disclaimers before I launch: 1) Although I’m going to point at a special mission field, this is emphatically NOT some “you have to have this ministry or Jesus isn’t really present in your church” stuff. Not every congregation can make...

My Imago Dei Is So Awesome

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 5, 2019 | Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, The Gospel

Providence has been kind this week and brought into my way several ridiculous creeds and prayers written probably by committees of people who can’t remember why they’ve been lugging themselves into those old, crumbling…what are they called? Ah, “church” buildings all...