Gap doesn't use "Christmas" -- I say that's wonderful.
I just cannot get into the Christmas wars. The Mississippi-based American Family Assn. is organizing a boycott against Gap Inc. calling for a "two-month boycott over the company's failure to use the word 'Christmas' in its advertising to Christmas shoppers."I say kudos to Gap. Who wants someone huge corporation to use Jesus to sell jeans? Don't we have enough silly Christians hawking merchandise

Dude, Where’s My Gospel?
Jared Wilson writes: Gospel deficiency is the major crisis of the evangelical church. The good news has been replaced by many things, most often a therapeutic, self-help approach to biblical application. The result is a Church that, ironically enough, preaches works, not grace, and a growing number of Christians who neither understand the gospel nor revel in its scandal.Read the remainder of this

"You, Too, Should be a Fundamentalist"
I stumbled on this very nice, little essay by a friend of mine, Dr. Lawrence Rast, Academic Dean at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne. In it, he sees in current evangelicalism a lack of historical roots and confessional stability. Instead evangelicalism is drifting into a meaningless individualism: To put it another way, evangelicalism may be becoming the victim of its own sense of

New Lutheran body to form after gay pastor vote
From the AP : The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.Leaders of Lutheran CORE said Wednesday that a working group would immediately begin drafting a constitution and taking other steps to form the denomination, with hopes to

Nothing of this world is more durable
Nothing of this world is more durable than the heavens and the earth, and nothing in the order of nature passes away more quickly than speech. Words, as long as they are incomplete, are not yet words. Once completed, they cease utterly to be. In fact they cannot be perfected except by their own passing away. Therefore he says: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass." As if