Holy Spirit
At The Door Knocking
I listened last night to a pastor that I like very much. He is on the radio and television every day and has written several bestselling books. He was in tears as he described, “The Luke Warm Church” that is so popular today. This pastor began to talk about the postmodern church where the subject [...]
Does the Post Modern World need a Post Modern Church?
I came across this comment on a blog that I read from time to time, We talk of community and of taking the Gospel out of the walls of the church-edifice, but we have failed in our development of a serious theology of community. And there is bound to be a disconnect between the vestiges [...]
Sunday Recap
As I sit at my desk this Monday morning thinking about yesterday’s service, I thought the day was very good. It was clear to me that God had a message for His people. The message in tongues and then the interpretation of the tongues was God’s call for people to give and to give sacrificially. [...]
Being Inclusive
I came across a blog today by another pastor where he encountered a lady who had visited the church where he was on staff and she told him how beautiful the church was. He explained, “I shared with her about our attempt to be inclusive and how the sanctuary is called an auditorium and the [...]
To be, or not to be Pentecostal; is that the question?
The other day I heard that a staff pastor in an Assembly of God said that they believed in speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but they did not desire to see these things operate in their church because they were just too divisive. If speaking in tongues and the manifestation [...]
Come Holy Spirit
Hi all, I came across a blog the other day where the author thought too many churches were abandoning the presence of the Holy Spirit for marketing ideas and business practices to attract the unchurched. I hope this is an overstatement, but it does give me pause. There are many voices today telling us and [...]
