First Things’ New Blog: Evangel
First Things is now hosting an evangelical group blog called, appropriately enough, Evangel. Check it out! Continue reading First Things’ New Blog: Evangel
Month: October 2009
Announcement of New Job
STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT HQ REFLECT EFFORTS TO RESOURCE MINISTERS, CHURCHES The Executive Presbytery, in session in September, approved a restructure of the Ministerial Leadership Division at Headquarters. With the goal of more effectively resourcing AG ministers and churches, and to bring synergy to the area of Ministerial Leadership, the EPs elected to move this entire area under the General Secretary’s office. “The General Secretary is the repository for all matters dealing with ministerial credentials, so it made sense to place the area dealing with the development and resourcing of the minister in that area also,” states General Superintendent George O. … Continue reading Announcement of New Job
My Resignation Letter
Sunday, October 25, 2009 Dear Friends: Over the past three years, Tiffany and I have been privileged to serve as your senior pastor. We have appreciated your prayers for us and generosity to us through actions both large and small. Mostly, we have appreciated your faithfulness to God and his church. This past August, I found myself at a crossroad. When I accepted your invitation to become the senior pastor of Living Faith Center, I did so with the intention of serving here for a long time. But 2007 was a very tough year emotionally for Tiffany and me. We … Continue reading My Resignation Letter
Did the Resurrection Happen?
David Baggett, ed., Did the Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2009). $16.00, 184 pages. “Did Jesus of Nazareth rise from the dead?” In 2003, Gary Habermas and Antony Flew met at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, to debate that very question. Habermas is a Christian philosopher widely known for his evidentialist argument for the resurrection. Flew was an atheist philosopher, perhaps the most famous such philosopher in the 20th Century. In 2004, he announced to a somewhat stunned philosophical world that he had abandoned atheism for deism. … Continue reading Did the Resurrection Happen?
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story
Bruce Feiler, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story (New York: William Morrow, 2009). $26.99, 368 pages. What do the Puritans, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, Cecil B. DeMille, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? Moses. In America’s Prophet, Bruce Feiler reveals the Mosaic thread that weaves its way through the tapestry of American history. Along the way, we see a Jewish history becoming the American story becoming a universal narrative of hope. The book is utterly engrossing, and I recommend it highly. The American appropriation of Moses begins with … Continue reading America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story
