More Chairs at the Theological Table: Reflections on Timothy Tennent’s “Theology in the Context of World Christianity”
By Tim Campbell There is an app on my iPad called Google Earth. Though an older app, it is quite amazing. Satellite imagery enables me to view any point on the globe at rooftop level with unusual detail. Google Earth is a fitting icon for the new realities of a global culture. The world is no longer small in terms of knowledge, interaction, and relationships. In almost every area of life, we now have to think globally. However, as...
Art Actually
I sometimes ask myself how in the world I ended up with a degree in music performance. But really the answer is quite simple: I love music. I always have. However, what sold me was a music appreciation class during my freshmen year at the local state university. The entire class was deeply fascinating. What was most curious about this course was that it actually began inside the church. The first two or three weeks were given wholly...
When I Consider the Heavens, the Works of Your Fingers
In my freshman year of college at the local state university, I took two semesters of astronomy for my science core requirement. They were my favorite courses during my time there. I found the sheer enormity and variety of the universe fascinating and exhilarating. However, although I knew why I found it so incredible, I never understood why my classmates and professors did, since they viewed astronomy through the lens of Big-Bang...
A Gracious Hope: Isaiah’s Biblical Theology of Creation
Good authors know how to weave important themes throughout the tapestry of their texts. For example, Homer does this masterfully with honor and respect in the Iliad (ca. 1194-84 bc), Augustine with citizenship and heaven in City of God (ca. 413-26), Chaucer with religion and social class in The Canterbury Tales (ca. late-1380s), and Hawthorne with sin and legalism in The Scarlet Letter (1850). How much more reliable is this truism...
The Benefits of Expository Preaching
By Dr. Jeff Manning Am I crazy? That thought was on my mind as I stood before the congregation of Unity Free Will Baptist Church on the first Sunday morning of August 1991. I had just been voted in as the Senior Pastor four days earlier, after having served as the Youth Pastor for nine months. As I stood there, safely anchored behind our large pulpit, I proceeded to ask my people to open their Bibles to the Gospel of John. My text...
A Critique of the Christ-less Church
Christianity has always had its critics—some from within the body of Christ, and others from spectator seats. While some criticize with tact and tastefulness, most do so in a tasteless fashion that is unbiblical. Still, there are those critics along the way who love Christ and hope to see His Church strengthened through their work. Flannery O’Connor was such a person. Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25,...
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