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What If You Lost “Everything”?
How many times as Christians are we asked to help or serve and our response is “I’m not gifted in that area”? Well I can tell you I have certainly hid behind that line several times in my life. Several times over the past couple years I have been asked to get involved in prison [...]
The question of Christian Leadership
There are a lot of leadership models and conferences out there. What makes a great Christian leader? Are there certain “must-haves” you look for in a ministry or pastoral leader? Today we’re talking about what it takes to lead, and examples of great Christian leadership. Youth pastor and leader of Hopenet360 Jeff Strommen joins the [...]
Are Christian Leaders Prepared For What’s Coming?
Leadership is crucial to the success of any family or organization. Without strong, consistent, principled leadership, there is chaos and confusion. The unit—the family or the business—becomes unfocused and unproductive without strong, active leadership. More than ever, this is true for the church. As Americans become more and more self-centered and as attacks on the [...]
Starbucks CEO Says No to Speaking at Former “Ex-Gay” Church-UPDATED
[HYBELS VIDEO ADDED] Just so you know, this article is from JustOut blog magazine, a pro-gay publication. Here is their take: Posted Aug 11, 2011 Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has decided not to speak at a church that once supported “ex-gay” therapy, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Schultz was scheduled to deliver a talk Friday titled [...]
No replacement for Truth
Today we’re looking at why Replacement Theology, the belief that God’s Word has replaced the Jewish people, and that all the promises in the Word go now to the Church. Don’t miss our special guest Laurie Cardoza Moore, founder of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations(PJTN), a ministry forged to educate Christian believers about bibilical truth as [...]
Respecting and Honoring God’s Promises to Israel
I have a dear friend who is a Christian but really struggles with the fact that the Jews remain God’s chosen people. To him, it makes no sense that God would continue to call the Jews His chosen people when they rejected His Son as the Messiah. But to me it makes perfect sense on [...]
A great divide: The growing emergent church
The Church in America (and around the world for that matter) is seeing a great division by those who are disdainful of God’s Word. Those who have built a new paradigm are teaching Christians to doubt prophecy, question Jesus’ substitutionary atonement and believe that all are saved. And yet the New Paradigm church is growing [...]
We Have Met the Enemy–and They Are Us!
The comic strip Pogo helped coin the phrase “We have met the enemy…and they are us”. In looking at the growth of the emergent church and social justice movements, it is important we look in the mirror and see what role we have played in giving these destructive movements credence in the eyes of our [...]
University Puts Out List of ‘Gay-Friendly’ Churches
Is this an appropriate use of university funds? A North Carolina state university has put out a list of approved “gay-friendly” churches for faculty and students raising concerns by at least one professor that taxpayers are inadvertently involved in “telling people where to go to church.” An office with the University of North Carolina’s [...]
What do Emergents say about old-school faith?
Today we’re covering an interesting article by Eric Barger, A Few Reasons Why You, Your Family and Your Church Need to Keep Your Bible Open. In it he says that to Emergents, Christianity should be: Experience over reason Images over words Spirituality over doctrine Subjective feelings over absolute truth Earthly justice over salvation Social action [...]
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