Author Archives: rthenderson

BLOG 8/26/13. “I FORGOT THE MESSAGE!” Several years back, the New Yorker magazine included, what I considered, at riotously funny cartoon, which I had posted on my wall for years. It showed the original Marathoner, Phidippides, coming exhausted before the … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/21/13. BACK TO BASICS: WORSHIP AND ADORATION “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God.  It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness, the nourishment of the mind with his truth; the purification of imagination … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/17/13: WE, FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST, HAVE A DREAM, AND MORE THAN A DREAM, BUT IT IS ALWAYS UNDER ATTACK This week the nation will be revisiting that unforgettable moment called ‘The March on Washington’ and on Martin Luther King, … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/15/13. DISCIPLE-MAKING: WHERE WOULD YOU FIND A MODEL OF JESUS TODAY IN FLESH AND BLOOD THAT CAPTURED YOUR ATTENTION? There’s a lot of ‘Jesus talk’ floating around in some circles that all seems pretty empty, and sort of unreal. … Continue reading →

BLOG. 8/12/13: ‘SEARS-ROEBUCK’ CHURCHES IN AN ‘AMAZON’ CULTURE Anyone growing up in the 1930s, and in the Great Depression, when I did, remembers that no home was without the annual Sears-Roebuck Catalog, when that company was the giant mail-order behemoth … Continue reading →

BLOG 8//8/13. ASLAN: “OF COURSE HE ISN’T SAFE. BUT HE’S GOOD.”     The dilemma before the Christian church and its mission here in the 21st century has two major issues before it: 1) the issue of the content of … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/5/13. QUESTION: ARE CHURCH BUILDINGS AN IMPEDIMENT TO MISSION? One can get in real trouble challenging the sheer idolatry with which many church folk hold their church buildings, alas! In their minds the church is identified by its building … Continue reading →

BLOG 8/1/13. WHY MILLENNIALS (AND OTHERS?) ARE LEAVING THE CHURCH There has been a spate of Blogs and journal articles of late on why the Millennial generation is leaving the church. Actually, they aren’t saying much that is new. There … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/29/13. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE GOING NOWHERE?       There’s a whimsical (I guess that’s the word) old saying: “Blessed are they who are going nowhere for they shall probably arrive.” I think of that often in conversation with folk inside … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/25/13. (CONT) ‘PEW ZOMBIES’ OR INTERACTIVE LEARNERS My last blog had to do with the all-too-common phenomenon of passive church folk, for whom the raison d’ètre, the purpose of the teaching formation of the church, seems to be a … Continue reading →