Monthly Archives: July 2018

BLOG 7/31/18. A REMARKABLE RESOURCE IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES I’m not sure that bloggers are supposed to be in the advertising business, or promoting books (there are so many books being published regularly) … but I can’t resist, especially when … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/27/18. ELLESIOLAE IN ECCLESIA, LITTLE CHURCHES IN THE CHURCH Where are you likely to know where to find a real church? Does this sound like a stupid question? Hey! This, admittedly, is a “fools rush in where angels fear … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/24/18. THE CHURCH, LIKE EVERTHING ELSE, MUST GRAPPLE WITH CULTURAL CHANGE, … AND IT’S A TOUGH DISCIPLINE. The church of Jesus Christ will always survive in some form, but those forms will, of necessity, be ever engaged with the … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/20/18. “WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SO CRITICAL OF THE CHURCH?” One of my dearest friends would occasionally ask me the probing question: “Why are you always so critical of the church?” My response was to refer her to God’s … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/17/18. THE CHURCH NEEDS BOTH ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND ARCHITECTS IN THE TURBULENT BETWEEN-THE-ERAS CULTURE Those of us who inhabit church communities are certainly no more exempt from the turbulence of our present cultural whitewater as we are irresistibly carried along … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/13/18. THE CONTRADICTION OF CHURCHES IMMUNIZED TO THE MESSAGE AND MISSION THAT JESUS GAVE THEM If this kind of situation were not so tragic it would be humorous, i.e., that landscape is filled with ostensible churches who are totally … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/10/18. CLINGING TO ‘YESTERDAY’… WON’T WORK A certifiable reality among us is that very small percentage of persons have the capacity to think in terms of the future. This results in their passionately clinging to past patterns, even as … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/6/18. WHEN AND HOW SHOULD A CHURCH BE TERMINATED? I want to introduce a very serious question with my readers, and then pursue it in my next several blogs—maybe this is really a series of questions. When is a … Continue reading →

BLOG 7/3/18. THE END OF AN ERA: PART II Last Friday in this blog I raised the question of whether, or not, we were looking at the end of an era, and of the American Empire as we have known … Continue reading →