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Featured Preacher: Lloyd John Ogilvie

2012-05-07T22:25:21+00:00

This month, we will feature some of Dr. Ogilvie's sermons from his time at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, CA. A complete video archive of Dr. Ogilvie's sermons is now available under the Resources tab.

ioption review

2012-04-07T21:06:32+00:00

check out this great ioption review I found!

Featured Preacher: Justin Fung

2012-04-02T20:35:49+00:00

Justin serves as associate pastor of The District Church in the heart of our nation’s capital. Prior to joining the church, he worked as the Policy and Outreach Assistant at Sojourners in Washington, DC.

Sundance Films, Day 4 - Relational Conflicts

2012-03-06T18:28:00+00:00

There are some films that just don't click for me for various reasons. Try as I might, our relationship just doesn't work. I saw two such films on day four of Sundance - Wish You Were Here and Predisposed...

Ears to Hear

2012-02-27T20:18:50+00:00

When I was a youth pastor in my early 20s, a student approached me after I had just finished a sermon. With an amused smile on her face, she triumphantly informed me, “You said the word ‘like’ 47 times in that sermon!” And on her notes she had the tally marks to prove it. I was so embarrassed by this eighth grader’s keen attentiveness to my verbal tics that I successfully eliminated the word ‘like’ from my preaching thereafter.

Sundance Films, Day 3 - Look Again

2012-02-27T15:39:38+00:00

Movies are a way we deal with all kinds of issues that impact our world. If Christians fail to take seriously the films they and the rest of society are seeing, we miss out on conversations that have the potential to have profound effects on individuals' lives...

Generosity and Justice

2012-02-22T23:11:09+00:00

Williamson County, TN is one of America’s richest 25 counties. It’s also the home of Fellowship Bible Church, an evangelical congregation of 2000+ members, which began with four key core values: worship, community, growth, and service. Not surprisingly given its context and unique assets, it has added generosity to that list. This has led to a dramatic increase in congregational giving, which has made possible hundreds of thousands of dollars in Kingdom investments with partner ministries in the developing world. Today many of Fellowship’s members are characterized by the radical generosity of time and money that Tim Keller argues is “one of the marks of living justly.”

Sundance Films, Day 2 - Seeing What’s Broken

2012-02-15T23:28:28+00:00

"Drink coffee. Watch films. Repeat." And be broken by the brokenness in the world.

The Power of Weakness

2012-02-13T20:47:45+00:00

Few things are more inspiring than listening to a preacher who can share from a vulnerable place.

Sundance Films, Day 1 - Marginalization

2012-02-07T19:55:37+00:00

Largely, Sundance films are marginalized films about marginalized people. The three films many of us saw yesterday are what some might call "stereotypical" Sundance films, because they focused on seldom-told stories, and they picture their characters as anything but stereotypes...

Corpo Celeste

2012-02-07T06:51:50+00:00

Soft blue filmic tones render the understated performances melancholy in Italian writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste (“celestial body”). Rohrwacher tests the contrast between the idea and reality of a small Catholic parish community in Calabria, Italy where main character Marta...

Monsieur Lazhar

2012-02-07T06:51:07+00:00

A story about grief beautifully shot in cloudy soft tones with lots of light and space, the Quebecois film Monsieur Lazhar manages deep mournfulness and acceptance, somehow hopeful in its expression of the quiet reality of what is, despite how much we wish it were otherwise. A shell-shocked Quebec...

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

2012-02-07T06:50:18+00:00

Writer/director/editor/animator/actor/lover Terence Nance spent six years on An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, the real-life story of his (unrequited? reciprocated? by turns both and neither?) love for close friend (girlfriend? lover? otherwise undefinable compatriot?) Namik that is anything but...

Slavery By Another Name

2012-02-07T01:04:01+00:00

The documentary “Slavery By Another Name” chronicled the social brutalities yet fiendishly rational economic sensibilities of slavery, and why it continued until the 1960s. Based on Douglass Blackmon’s book, the crucial issue that permitted the continuation of slavery - although by another...

Middle of Nowhere

2012-02-07T00:57:44+00:00

Rarely have I seen such a “tasty” portrayal of self-sacrificing in a way that depicts all that is wrong with love in a western context. However, where there is sacrifice there is also the hope of redemption. But redemption of what? Redemption from what? Enter Ruby in the film “Middle of...

How To Survive a Plague

2012-02-07T00:50:45+00:00

Within four minutes of the beginning of this film I was in tears. “How To Survive a Plague” chronicles the fight for HIV/AIDS medical advancement, and the social, political and bio-medical outreach methods used to ensure that HIV/AIDS was no longer a death sentence as it was from the early...

Featured Preacher: San Clemente Presbyterian Church

2012-02-06T19:00:49+00:00

In February, we will be featuring a team of preachers from San Clemente Presbyterian Church, including Rev. Charlie Campbell, Designated Associate Pastor of Worship; Rev. Dr. Tod Bolsinger, Senior Pastor; and Renee Coffman-Chavez, Director of Sunday Children's Ministry.

Five Broken Cameras

2012-02-06T05:03:32+00:00

Five Broken Camera’s was a brilliantly done documentary highlighting one small village in Palestine’s fight to keep their land from the greedy Israelites. The journalist who filmed the documentary is an everyday citizen of this town who goes through 5 video cameras as he captures the life and...

The Surrogate

2012-02-06T05:02:10+00:00

This is the film that I cannot stop talking about. I am not alone, as The Surrogate took home the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Surrogate tells the tale of a man who had polio and is left living life with an iron lung. Mark, this man is incapable of moving anything but...

Filly Brown

2012-02-05T01:38:09+00:00

Filly Brown is a young Latina Hip Hop artist spitting rhymes on the underground radio scene in LA with a group of friends that support her art. Filly’s mom is in jail, but gives Filly lyrics to spit, which garners her notice by a promoter and ultimately, a record contract with producer “Big...

Finding North

2012-02-05T01:37:01+00:00

Finding North The filmmaker’s contention that America has lost its moral compass is explored in this documentary that explores the rise of hunger in America. The film states that 1 in 6 Americans go hungry in this country as a result of Congressional policies subsidizing billion-dollar...

Beasts of the Southern Wild

2012-02-05T01:34:03+00:00

Beasts of the Southern Wild. Set in a fictional bayou area known as “The Bathtub,” this magical drama follows the story of Hushpuppy, a eight-year old girl who lives with her father in a stilt house among other poor residents of the post-Katrina-like territory, who continually ignore warnings...

Why Sundance?

2012-02-01T19:10:20+00:00

"There was a spiritual conversation happening here at Sundance, and there weren't really people of faith participating in the conversation..."

Featured Preacher: Jeff Smith

2012-01-09T20:46:06+00:00

Rev. Jeff Smith is the senior pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of Houston. He feels strongly called to use the gifts God has given him in preaching and teaching to encourage the church to take discipleship more seriously so that we can be empowered to embody the missional life Jesus calls us to live.

Including the Excluded

2011-12-09T17:01:43+00:00

In the gospels of Mark and Luke, and briefly in Matthew, we are told the miraculous story of Christ healing a paralytic man. Not far into his earthly ministry, Jesus’ words and works had already caught the attention of critical religious leaders and eager residents of the area. Luke tells us that the Pharisees and teachers had come “from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem” to hear Jesus speak. It’s no surprise, then, that a group of men carrying their paralytic friend on a bed couldn’t quite reach Jesus through the pressing crowd. Urgently desiring to get to the Messiah, they took the tiles off the roof of the house where Jesus was. And, in what must have been something to see, they lowered their friend directly to Jesus’ feet. It’s easy to imagine Jesus in this situation gazing down lovingly at the paralytic—being filled with compassion and healing him. Pastor Tom Nicholas of Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC) in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, thinks something else may also have been going on.

Home Court Advantage

2011-12-09T01:17:26+00:00

On Friday night, a couple goes to a movie. Afterwards they analyze it—he liked its subtle character development; she thought the plot moved too slowly. The next day the same couple attends a college basketball game at their alma mater. They scream themselves silly for two hours, willing their team to a narrow victory. On Sunday morning, they go to church. During the sermon, how should they engage? As consumers/critics of a movie, or as active participants desperately trying to influence the outcome of a basketball game? As the Body of Christ, we recognize that the power of God’s word preached depends not just on the one who preaches. When we pray before and during the sermon, God uses our intercession to free up, call out, and bring to birth the event of the Word.

Sonbeams Ministry

2011-12-09T01:03:38+00:00

Six years ago, on one of John Kwasny’s first days as director of Christian Education and Children’s Ministries at Pear Orchard Presbyterian in Ridgeland, Mississippi, a couple walked through his doors. They brought a question that in many ways would not only shape his ministry, but that of the entire church. “Are you,” they asked, “really interested in ministering to all of our children here, or just most of them?”

Through the Roof Ministries

2011-12-09T00:06:10+00:00

We often complain about not “fitting in” in certain situations or with certain groups of people. Imagine literally not being able to “fit into” a church of which you long to be a part. You are wheelchair bound. You can’t get through the door, much less reach the water fountains or comfortably use the restroom. Or imagine you are deaf. You can’t hear the songs in worship or understand what the pastor is saying in his sermon. Now imagine that this happens over and over to you, at every church you visit. These are the heartbreaking stories that Margaret Matasic, a doctor of physical therapy, heard repeatedly from her patients. Reaching out to these people became a passion of Margaret’s, and eventually she went to the senior pastor of her church (The Chapel, a nondenominational fellowship in Akron, OH) with the intent to start a ministry. Margaret’s enthusiasm was contagious, and it wasn’t long before the entire church was behind her and “Through the Roof” was born.

Featured Preacher: Len Tang

2011-12-05T18:06:42+00:00

Rev. Len Tang is the founding pastor of Sherwood Presbyterian Church in Sherwood, Oregon.

Truth + Love

2011-11-30T19:52:15+00:00

Our life together is founded on the truth of gospel, that God loves his creation so much that he actually lived among us in order to restore it. The Scriptures teach us that when we let that truth settle in us, love will pervade our community. John's third letter gives us a glimpse of what this love looks like. . . .

Prophets, Artists, and Prophetic Artists

2011-11-28T19:31:06+00:00

Prophets see contemporary situations with divine perspective, and as I look at the art created by some, I wonder, Is this artist not a prophet also?

Prophetic Wonder: A Response to the Brehm Lectures

2011-11-21T23:05:30+00:00

Fujimura drew attention to something often missed in understanding art - common grace is never absent. Artistic instinct and creative impulse are fundamental to human personhood and are a gift of the triune God. Only the creator God can offer creativity to make art.

Awakened Attentiveness: A Response to the Brehm Lectures

2011-11-17T21:45:57+00:00

In these lectures I heard a call to give closer attention to the address of the Bible to my imagination, calling me to repent and lament, and to give closer attention to the presence and pain of my neighbors as communicated through their art.

A Defense of Christian Kitsch

2011-11-17T00:54:02+00:00

This article was first published in DIVINITY Magazine and is being shared with the author’s permission.

Christians ought to pause before accepting the view that kitsch is trashy.
By Paul Griffiths

The term kitsch is usually intended as an insult. To call a painting or a musical composition or a...

Featured Preacher: Joseph King Barkley

2011-11-07T18:19:25+00:00

In 2005, Joseph Barkley and his wife helped plant a church in Hollywood in just five days. It was almost twice as crazy as it sounds. At the time, Joseph was working as a musician, touring with a band called Plumbline and writing music for television shows. He had never preached a word in his life.

Hardware Heiro

2011-10-31T19:38:49+00:00

Los Angeles artist Lynn Aldrich, with the help of Michelle McCreary, the Brehm Center’s Administrative Assistant, installed three brightly colored art works in Fuller’s David Allan Hubbard Library.

Google Glaze…

2011-10-21T01:17:55+00:00

Google Glaze

I had a conversation with my computer yesterday. No, really, I found myself playing charades with Google while I was searching for an answer that was just inches from my grasp. The staring camera captured smiles and an expression that “looked like” joy, but five minutes into...

Preachers and Shaking Knees

2011-10-06T21:14:16+00:00

Every preacher has had the sinking feeling in their gut that what they have to share is uninspiring. Sometimes preachers think they are not witty enough, or fresh enough, or intellectual enough. They may feel alone in their endeavor . . .

Featured Preacher: Rich Kannwischer

2011-10-03T16:50:11+00:00

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church's is committed to a mission of following Jesus Christ to lead lives that reveal God's goodness.

Lament as lense of Theodicy

2011-10-02T21:54:18+00:00

It has become apparent to me that the biggest factor in determining a persons atheism/theism has been the question of Theodicy in the face of the reality of suffering and injustice. It seems that if God was good and all powerful, then He would set the world aright, and there would be no pain, no...

Preaching for Passivity?

2011-09-22T22:09:23+00:00

On September 19, Andy Crouch led a very stimulating webinar for the Ogilvie Institute's Micah Groups on issues of faith and culture. We had watched a number of videos Andy has done and then had this chance to talk with him. After the webinar, several Micah Group members said they were eager to talk more about an issue Andy raised: Does preaching (any preaching and our own preaching, in particular) breed a kind of congregational passivity? Is the form, or our way of using the form of preaching, forming a community of people who sit and listen, then think that at the end of the service they have done all they need to do? Is the content, style, and approach to preaching that we are using in our congregations forming a community of inaction, even though we may be trying to do the opposite? If we measure this not by intention but by actual evidence in the culture of our congregation, what do we see? If this needs to change, how might we go about it? Let's talk about these questions and other related ones that may have occurred to any of you who were part of the webinar. I will jump in from time to time and share in the conversation. Please also feel free to offer additional questions you may wish to discuss.

Coming Together

2011-09-21T20:56:38+00:00

Jesus’ gospel deals not only with personal salvation, but also with systemic issues of race and class. Saint Paul writes, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female—for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” We see and hear in the Old and New Testament God’s great heart for those at the margins, especially the poor. For the sake of preaching the whole counsel of God, please pray that our churches would become increasingly more aware of these disparities. . . .

Beautiful Redemption

2011-09-08T21:53:02+00:00

Recently, Fuller featured an article about the Brehm Center and Fuller Alumni transforming vacant storefronts into art galleries featuring the art of local artists and artists at Fuller. I personally thought this was a great idea, allowing us to redeem our community through art (which I am always...

Featured Preacher: Felix Gilbert

2011-09-05T21:25:38+00:00

Restoration Christian Fellowship is a multiethnic non-denominational ministry whose mission is to restore people to their rightful position in Christ.

Faithfulness in the Public Schools

2011-06-15T19:06:51+00:00

Ten years ago, the Kansas City public school district became the first district in the nation to lose its accredited status, failing all of Missouri’s performance standards. In response, Pastor Adam Hamilton of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in KC stood before his flock and said bluntly, “This is a huge, big, hairy problem to wrap our arms around.”

Listening to City Leaders: The “Churches of Springfield” Initiative

2011-06-14T20:13:37+00:00

Many church leaders around the nation say that they want to make a positive difference in their community. Not so many, though, see their very first step in that process as one of listening. The leaders at Second Baptist Church in Springfield, MO are among the exceptions. They engaged in a nine month listening process before they moved forward.

Joel

2011-06-07T23:31:05+00:00

Joel is a project that my partner Richard Min and I filmed and produced that aims to challenge the way we glance and overlook the “everyday” moments by interpreting them through a prophetic voice, Joel. In studying 17th century dutch art, we were both intrigued at how easy it was to pass over a...

How Should Theology and Art Be Taught?

2011-06-06T07:29:17+00:00

I’m curious to hear what your thoughts are on how theology and art should be taught in higher education. Here are some conversation starter questions.

What is the role of artists of faith in the contemporary art world?

How are we to understand the role of theory and praxis in educating the next...

Who Says You’re In?

2011-05-16T22:56:21+00:00

As many of you know, I am the president of the theatre group at Fuller Theological Seminary, The Fuller Company. When we plan shows, we open auditions to the greater Los Angeles acting community as well as the Fuller student body, for various reasons. Not too long ago, we held auditions for our...

The Privilege of Prayer

2011-05-07T13:59:49+00:00

No single invitation from Jesus is more intimate or astounding than that we are meant to seek and ask God for what we need. This is remarkable. The notion that the God of the universe is willing, able, and ready to listen and respond to us may be so familiar to us that we might fail to absorb what a stunning thing that is. God, the One who brought the universe into being, listens to us, cares about us, and answers our prayers. We urge you to practice this privilege! To realize it is not presumptuous to come boldly to God in prayer, it is rather God’s invitation. Seek God for the ministry of preaching, that the preacher and the people alike, might hear God’s Word and live it out in the world. Prayer and preaching are integral to one another and neither can be what it is meant to be without the other.

Reel Spirituality Screens Freedom Riders

2011-04-05T23:37:45+00:00

Freedom and the continued struggle for it was front and center Friday night as the Fuller community joined to celebrate the men and women who participated in the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement with a screening of Freedom Riders, a new documentary about the historic protest rides.

TC516: Experience and Expectation?

2011-03-30T20:07:57+00:00

What are some of your experiences with art? What would you like to gain from this course?

The Art of Friendship

2011-03-18T19:45:00+00:00

This article originally appeared in Comment magazine, the opinion journal of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca/comment

“Originally and properly within I am still alone by myself: in my freedom in relation to the whole cosmos; with my poetry and truth; with the question of my needs and desires and loves and...

Defining Worship?

2011-03-16T06:15:28+00:00

In a recent post, I mentioned how our worship leadership practicum class is studying The Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland this quarter. It is essentially about just that - focusing on building and maintaining a "healthy heart" as an artist. It addresses real-life, practical, personal issues...

What is your worship Top 10?

2011-03-16T01:47:11+00:00

In an article for Worship Leader Magazine, Lee Martin McDonald -- a former New Testament professor at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada -- offered his conclusions about 10 worship guidelines from the early churches:

1. Worship was sacrifice.

2. Worship was...

Your Life Adjusted

2011-03-04T22:24:20+00:00

Interact with The Adjustment Bureau

Tuning Out the Din

2011-03-02T00:09:27+00:00

(This is a modified version of an article published in the Feb. 11, 2011 edition of The SEMI, a student publication sponsored by Fuller Theological Seminary's Office of Student Affairs. Learn more about The SEMI at ...

Motives for Ministry

2011-03-01T23:06:57+00:00

In a recent article entitled "Motives for Ministry" published in Worship Leader Magazine, Paul Baloche candidly shared about his experiences when he first began leading worship. He also wrote about his philosophy of songwriting and his heart behind ministry. On the topic of songwriting, he...

Excellence vs. Perfectionism

2011-03-01T22:49:04+00:00

This quarter, one of the classes I am taking is the Worship Leadership Practicum. It is a very practical, helpful class directed at preparing us for the challenges of being in worship and music ministry. The book we are studying for the class is The Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland, and...

Is Violence Ever Just? - Reel Spirituality Screens Black Panther Documentary

2011-02-28T21:49:15+00:00

The film contends that "Bunchy" provided the galvanizing force the more militant civil rights activitsts needed in the late 60s before he was mysteriously gunned down by opponents...

Vocal Artistry

2011-02-24T23:59:07+00:00

"A vocal artist is different than a singer. Singers reproduce notes and words. Vocal Artists are able to connect heart to voice and find the ability to accurately convey their heart's message through their songs. Singers approach their stage presence with what they think they should be doing...

Reel Spirituality Screens The Adjustment Bureau

2011-02-24T19:01:32+00:00

Reel Spirituality Hosts A Night of Interreligious Dialogue Around A Screening of The Adjustment Bureau

arts in a networked world.

2011-02-23T22:43:08+00:00

The arts remain vital to the reflective and expressive life of the church.If the church is `missional’ then it is concerned with cultural engagement….at many levels. A church without….or a church that marginalizes and/or devalues the arts is less than what it was intended and designed to...

Winter’s Bone

2011-02-22T22:41:11+00:00

Family. You don’t get to choose it, and like it or not, it is always part of your life.

Winter’s Bone is about a family, an extended, dysfunctional, drug addicted, secretive, impoverished, violent family.

The story concerns a 17-year old girl who is faced with either finding her bail-jumping...

Contemporvant

2011-02-18T20:38:07+00:00

What are your thoughts on what this video?

The Spirituality of Sundance: An Experiment in Public Theology

2011-02-14T17:25:04+00:00

“Christian theology does not belong solely in the circle of people who are ‘insiders.’ It belongs just as much to the people who feel that they are ‘outside the gate.’”
-Jürgen Moltmann, Experiences in Theology

For the majority of those who descend upon Park City every January, the...

The Cost of Paying Attention

2011-02-04T18:39:43+00:00

I’ve been interested recently in technology, faith, and art. Post-Internet, it seems all three are in a constant state of flux. I don’t plan on retreating from culture, but I often wonder how uncritical use of computers and screens has affected our faith and artmaking.

Right now I have five tabs...

General Revelation through the Arts - Possibility or Pipe Dream?

2011-02-01T08:10:58+00:00

In a Systematic Theology class, I was struck by something the theologian Leonardo Boff wrote in relation to past practices of Christian missions. I paraphrase: when missionaries entered into an indigenous culture to proselytize, more often than not they would try and supplant all forms of the...

What is Emergent Worship? Part 2

2011-01-31T17:12:59+00:00

Emerging Christians tend to be theologically pluralistic and quite suspicious of tidy theological boxes. They believe that God is bigger than any theology and that God is first and foremost a story-teller, not a dispenser of theological doctrine and factoids. Theology for them, therefore, is...

What is Emergent Worship? Part 3

2011-01-31T15:13:18+00:00

A proposal for four marks of communities participating in "Emergent Worship."

Passion Which Has Outgrown Us

2011-01-31T11:07:19+00:00

I hope I am becoming more translucent, more rested, more me. I hope I allow some passions to outgrow me, and then to turn and let them remind me who I am, all over again. Rainer Maria Rilke's "To Music" does just that.

The Art of Songwriting

2011-01-31T05:29:39+00:00

One of the greatest aspects about being a musician and worship leader is creativity. The appreciation of beauty in the world around us can be a powerful tool of inspiration in our leadership, ministry, and music-making. One way I love to express creativity is through songwriting.

I’ll never...

Why do we keep from singing?

2011-01-30T01:07:54+00:00

Paul of Tarsus (or, depending on which biblical scholar you ask, whoever wrote the canonized epistles to the Ephesian and Colossian churches) instructed first-century Christians to sing praises to the triune God, characterizing worship as a vital element of Jesus-centered living:

"Do not get...

Unhip and unashamed

2011-01-27T23:39:17+00:00

I was terrified from the very beginning. The floorboards were completely exposed. The walls were mostly bare except for a rare Joy Division seven-inch and I think a few abstract paintings. The couch we sat on was cramped and uncomfortable, and I vaguely remember half the cushions being...

David: The Tender Warrior

2011-01-27T23:20:54+00:00

I completely understand that the sheer fact of putting this on a public forum is somewhat counteracting the point, but for all of you who are involved in ministry, I thought this was way too important not to share. This is from Dr. David Jeremiah’s Bible study called “The Tender Warrior.”...

A word on Terry Mattingly’s Christmas “rant”

2011-01-27T22:48:09+00:00

Terry Mattingly, an Antiochian Orthodox journalist who runs the popular blog GetReligion.org, responds to a Wall Street Journal article that accused him of writing an anti-Christmas rant, simply because he acknowledged that Easter is a more important holiday in the church worship calendar:

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Rise Up & Sing!

2011-01-27T22:40:14+00:00

One of the books I’ve been reading lately is “Rise Up & Sing” by Lex Buckley. It’s a book geared specifically for women in worship ministry. There are also contributions from Beth Redman, Christy Nockels, and Kathryn Scott. If you are a woman involved with worship, I highly recommend...

Praying for Preaching

2011-01-24T08:22:02+00:00

What are we praying for when we pray for preaching? And why should we do so?

What is Emergent Worship? Part 1

2011-01-05T00:35:47+00:00

What exactly is emergent/altworship?

To Play Like a Child Again? Reflections from Madeleine L’Engle

2010-12-17T22:03:09+00:00

"When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child this is: art: prayer: love." -A Circle of Quiet, chapter 1

Doable Engagement

2010-12-09T15:12:03+00:00

Amy Sherman talks to Eugene Cho about One Day's Wages.

Review: Generation EX-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith..& How to Bring Them Back

2010-12-08T22:59:45+00:00

In a society as highly mobile as North America and with churchgoers dispersed among a multiplicity of denominations, new networks and stand-alone congregations it is perplexing trying to keep track of churchgoers. What percentage of switching churches as against those who are leaving?

Interview with Archibishop Desmond Tutu

2010-10-30T03:47:20+00:00

In an intimate interview, Desmond Tutu speaks on the plight of children globally, reflecting on how Jesus would react to their deepest felt needs.

Christ Without the Church?

2010-10-05T10:58:33+00:00

Dr. Richard Mouw blogs about the multi-layered challenge brought by Anne Rice's announcement that she is "leaving Christianity."

Improving Preaching: Give Pastors New Tools

2010-10-05T08:17:56+00:00

Mark Labberton, director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching, Kate Bruce, chaplain and research fellow in preaching at Durham University, and Keith Drury who teaches ministry courses at Indiana Wesleyan, suggest the best ways to improve preaching.

A 21st Century Reformation: Recover the Supernatural

2010-10-05T03:49:27+00:00

Hwa Yung asserts, “A 21st-century reformation will demand reinserting the supernatural into the heart of Christianity."

Sagamore Institute for Policy Research

2010-10-03T09:42:24+00:00

Sagamore Institute for Policy Research is an Indianapolis-based nonpartisan research group ("think tank") that brings policymakers and practitioners together to turn ideas into action. It was founded in 2004 by Jay F. Hein. Sagamore’s portfolio encompasses national and international issues,...

The Langham Partnership

2010-10-03T09:13:37+00:00

The Langham Partnership desires to see Majority World churches being equipped for mission and growing to maturity through the ministry of Christian leaders and pastors who sincerely believe, diligently study, faithfully expound and relevantly apply the Word of God. Connect with The Langham...

Census Declares More Americans in Poverty than Ever Before

2010-10-02T04:57:45+00:00

It is the highest number America has ever seen: 43.6 million people are living in poverty in the United States, the wealthiest country in the world. According to new data released yesterday by the Census Bureau, the 2009 U.S. poverty rate was at 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008....

A Study on Colossians 1:9-23

2010-09-26T01:58:52+00:00

Mark Labberton recently spoke at First Presbyterian Church of Rome, and we were able to snag him to speak candidly about his recent series called "A Study on Good News."

Referencing Colossians 1:9-23 (NRSV), guest pastor Mark Labberton concludes our study on The Good News.

Mars Hill Audio

2010-09-25T00:04:32+00:00

Mars Hill Audio is committed to assisting Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of contemporary culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement. Connect with Mars Hill Audio here

Renovaré

2010-09-25T00:04:03+00:00

Drawing from the example of Jesus Christ and the historical Church, Renovaré encourages people to develop renewed, sustainable, and enriched spiritual lives. Connect with Renovaré here.

Puritan Prayers for Preaching

2010-09-24T23:43:42+00:00

MY MASTER GOD, I am desired to preach today, but go weak and needy to my task; Yet I long that people might be edified with divine truth, that an honest testimony might be borne for thee; Give me assistance in preaching and prayer, with heart uplifted for grace and unction.

An Interview with Pete Greig, Urban-Monastic

2010-09-22T21:57:24+00:00

An Interview with Pete Greig, founder of 24-7 Prayer.

Christians in the Visual Arts

2010-09-05T09:15:34+00:00

Christians in the Visual Arts exists to explore and nurture the relationship between the visual arts and the Christian faith. Connect with CIVA here