Author Archives: rthenderson

BLOG 9/11/16. TRUE WORSHIP CAN DISTURB YOUR LIFE! There’s a tradition abroad, deeply entrenched, that true worship is to be a pleasant aesthetic experience that takes place in comfortable locations decorated for such … “candlelight and unreality” as one wry … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/7/16. AH! THE GIFT OF COMMUNICATION AND GOD’S NEW HUMANITY Do you know where the message of God’s incredible design, His joyous news of New Creation and a bout Jesus Christ has the most impact and contact with this … Continue reading →

BLOG 9/4/16. WHAT IF YOUR LIFE HAS NO FINAL GOAL? (Labor Day Special) Here’s one to chew on over this Labor Day weekend: What if your life has no final goal? Oh, maybe it has some immediate purpose such as … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/31/16. “FOLLOWING CHRIST—CHANGING THE WORLD” One of the perennial challenges that any Christian community faces is: How to keep its weekly gatherings for worship from dissipating into predictable spiritual entertainment disconnected from anything to do with the mission for … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/28/16. WHERE DOES THE CHURCH ENGAGE THE REAL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD? Oh, I’m going to get in trouble for this, … but here goes: One of the tragic distortions, or subversions, that also has become one of the … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/24/16. THE CHURCH: RETRIEVING ITS RAISON D’ETRE I am continually intrigued by that Silicon Valley bunch, and all of the stuff they have created that couldn’t have even been conceived a couple of decades ago, … and how they … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/21/16. “FORSAKING RELIGION”? NOT REALLY A recent issue of Atlantic Magazine reports that the generation of college students today are (in its words) “forsaking religion.” Indulge me if I challenge that. I’ve been hearing that kind of appraisal for … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/17/16. BREAKING WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHODOXY ON CHURCH INSTITUTIONS (continuing the conversation from the last blog) The response to my last blog on: “the sons of the world being more shrewd than the children of light” was interesting. For at … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/14/16. “THE SONS OF THIS WORLD ARE MORE SHREWD IN DEALING WITH THEIR OWN GENERATION THAN THE SONS OF LIGHT.” Fact #1. A couple of years ago the local media made a huge deal out of the opening of … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/10/16. WHERE DOES ONE LEARN HOW TO LIVE AS A CHILD OF THE LIGHT? The other evening, by chance, a gentleman, who is a very influential official in local government, learning that I was a retired pastor came over … Continue reading →