A few weeks ago David and I were discussing at breakfast the growing trend of pastors and church leaders to defer not to the Bible for the defense of their theology, but their creed or confession. It has gotten to the point where a few of them are basically calling their particular confession or creed …
This tweet popped up in my X feed. Dale Partidge is a senior pastor in Arizona. He writes: The “small group” movement democratized Bible teaching, gave authority to the uncalled, untrained, and unleashed a flood of bad doctrine. Historically, pastors led all Bible studies. Biblically, few men should be teachers. We must return to these …
Why is communion in a Baptist church (or similar Protestant church) like a funeral? This was the question posed to me by my daughter. She made the observation that if people were passing by outside the church and could hear the music, they would think it was a funeral going on. Why is a Baptist …
Several years ago, Wayne Grudem wrote But What Should Women Do In The Church? It went massively viral and was discussed at length. I found a copy in the Wayback Machine and have copied it here so it is not lost. I’ve tried to retain the original formatting as much as possible. As I’ve been …
Frank Viola and George Barna share the poem “The Calf Path” in the book Pagan Christianity. (Here is my post about reading the book.) They said: In this book, we sometimes refer to “the crooked path” that led the institutional church to its present form. This poem, written more than a century ago, served as …
Pagan Christianity has been on my to-read list for many years. I think at one point I checked it out of the library, but didn’t read it. I didn’t read it because I knew once I read it, I could never unsee what is in there. That might sound weird, but that’s the truth. I …
The video below popped up in my YouTube feed right after David and I were discussing some of these same topics in October. “How Christians Gathered in the 1st Century” with Dr. Tom Wadsworth is eye-opening. If you are familiar with the book Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola, some of this won’t be new to …
