Predictions of the Future Church
As a follow-up to my last post, I am reaching back to a post from February of 2015 written by pastor and blogger Carey Nieuwhof. I mentioned in previous posts t...
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Thom Rainer’s Major Trends for 2017
The church of the 21st century is going to require pastors to acquire a new set of tools. The church, and by that I mean all churches, has never been very good...
Live Long and Prosper: The Spirituality of Star Trek
On Christmas night I was looking for something to watch. I had my fill of Christmas movies, which seem to start earlier and earlier each year, so I needed some...
God’s Standard of Judgement
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, ...
Top 10 Posts of 2016
Here is the list of the Top 10 Posts of 2016. Thanks for Reading. Freedom and Responsibility Determination Advent and Christmas Meditations 2016 Sermon: Do Not...
Christ is Born! But Why?
These past four weeks, these past four weeks of Advent we have been on a journey of discovery, discovery about what Advent is truly about, and a discovery about...
Sermon: The One Who is to Come
The early church lived with a sense of expectation for the second coming of Jesus Christ and James exhorts his people, in today’s scripture passage, to wa...
Gaudete Sunday
Well, we have arrived at the mid-point in our Advent celebration. The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday, and the theme for this particular Sunday is rej...
Strange Christmas Traditions
As we draw near to the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ it is time to reflect on some Strange Christmas Traditions from other pla...
St. Nicholas Soup
I have a dear friend, Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourette who lives in a Benedictine monastery in upstate New York. Among other things, Brother Victor is...