Source: On Being an iPhone Pastor for a Typewriter Church | The Millennial Pastor This is yet another great blog post from The Millennial Pastor that gives a great insight into the great generational divide in the Church. While he looks at it from the Millennial/Boomer divide, its also true for many of us GenXers. […]
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The Church’s Frightful Kodak Moment | Holy Soup. Today Sunday worship was cancelled because of a snow storm and my wife got the idea that some house cleaning would be in order. In cleaning out a drawer, I found this – a roll of Kodak film. I don’t own a film camera anymore, haven’t for […]
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Bidding intensifies for Calif. megachurch – Yahoo! News. The story continues. Mismanagement, not cultivating outreach to younger generations, and cult of personality. For me, not only is it evidence of the death of the megachurch as boomer phenom, but also points to the decline of mainline denominations. We grew with the boomer wave and catering […]
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Posted in American Culture, Death and Dying, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Jesus the Christ, Love, Rob Bell and Love Wins, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on Apr 25th, 2011
Well, Lent was certainly interesting and perhaps the most interesting part was the continued debate over Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins. While the press coverage is largely done, the debate among pastor people and religious blogs is continuing. During this season when we remembered Jesus suffering, death, and resurrection, one segment of the church focused […]
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Posted in Video, World Realities on Feb 19th, 2011
Powerful video. Pastor people, this is a keeper for a sermon. After watching this, can you really buy the line that all God is really interested in is our souls and Jesus’ mission for the church is just to get people into heaven?
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Thanks to Bob Cannon for letting me know about the sound problem. I borrowed my oldest son’s gaming headset since my headset mike is busted and the sound was very different than what I usually set up for. So I didn’t check closely enough on the sound levels and the background music became too loud […]
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Just in time to end the year, a new podcast. Its a little different from some podcasts in that it has less to do with any specific site on the web and more to do with what I see as the transitions going on in the world, generations, and in the church. As I say […]
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Top Ten Things That Will Make You Crazy Working at a Church » MondayMorningInsight.com. In light of the atheist pastor story and my impending podcast (I know, I keep threatening), comes this brilliant insight that any pastor will give a rousing Amen, a few laughs, and one or two “why the heck am I putting […]
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Well, I finally sat down and got a podcast out. Its my reflections on how Christians have this tendency to separate people out as the right sort and wrong sort, saints and sinners, saved and fallen, and then keep to themselves. Its this strange twist that forgets that Jesus hung around the social outcasts, not […]
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In working on my sermon for this weekend, the gospel reading is Luke 15:1-10 and the part that jumped out at me was the accusation levelled at Jesus that he welcomed sinners and ate with them. His response was that heaven celebrates when the lost is found, when the 99 are left to fend for […]
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