A couple of months ago I attended the BioLogos national conference in Houston. BioLogos are Christians who espouse evolutionary creationism, one of the positions on creation I know the least about – and not one I’ve held. I attended not because I think their viewpoint is the best but because I felt the need to […]
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In their blog this week The Gospel Coalition commemorated John Piper’s famous 2000 Passion Conference message “Don’t Waste Your Life” (aka, the “seashells” talk). It not only fixed Piper’s influence in the hearts of the 40,000 twenty-somethings gathered in Memphis on that afternoon in May but also became, as the blog notes, “formative for a
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New church plants aside, it’s very easy to make the church all about the pastor by making everything revolve around his leadership. He authorizes every check. He oversees every ministry. He makes every weighty decision. But that’s not wanting to be a pastor. That’s wanting to be a pope. If the lead pastor gets hit
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