Alarming News
I saw this statistic today, and it was quite alarming: 10% of senior pastors in Protestant churches are female. This number has doubled in the last ten years. 58% percent of these “pastors” are found in mainline denominations. I guess the most surprising thing about that last statistic is that mainline denominations account for less that two-thirds of this phenomenon. Read the story here. I thought this was an interesting quote from one of the ladies interviewed in the article: Some of the teaching of the Bible was misquoted

How to Have a Megachurch
Apparently, all you have to do is preach “sermons” like this: This is simply “power of positive thinking” and “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” ratcheted up another notched.

Lest We Forget
Carl Trueman has a good article in the latest issue of Themelios. He speaks about how to avoid the forgetful nature of the Christian life, using the OT book of Judges as an example of why this is so necessary. The Passover is just one example of many rituals outlined in the Torah which functioned on one level as reminders of who God was, who the Israelites were, and how they related to each other. Thus, when we come in to the Promised Land and we find the Is

Good Quote on the Glory of Heaven
This quote is from a sermon on heaven preached by Ted Donnelly: There’s an almost universal idea that we can deserve Heaven. That’s what people think. It’s right for them to go to Heaven. They’re worthy of going to Heaven. That’s what all other religions are based on. That is the hope of the man or woman on the street. My friends, one glimpse of Heaven; one millisecond of Heaven; would render any such notion absolutely preposterous. If we could see for a fraction of a second, the glory of Heaven, we would realise our utter incapacity, and unworthiness, and inabi

A Deafening “Huh?”
I read this interesting article written by a professor in the RCA (Reformed Church in America). He is predicting its demise (it has been slowly dying as a denomination for many years) for, among other reasons, a lack of confessionalism. For instance, he writes: In several studies of RCA members from 1976 through 2000, Roger Nemeth and I found that there was little knowledge of and support for the great creedal Standards of the Reformed Church. When asked about the Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of the Synod of Dort, and Belgic Confession, laity largely responded with, “Huh? ” ̷