Adaptive Challenges
Leaders in the church today are facing a new kind of problem. Previously, the majority of the challenges faced by the church, and by church leaders, were identifiable, comprehensible, and often fully solvable. Some experts now refer to those types of challenges as “technical problems.” In

posted 2:21:00am Jun. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Postmodern Apologetics
I want to steal one other idea from the book Confident Faith which I wrote about last time and use it as a springboard into talking about something I've wanted to broach for a long while, but haven't known how. In the book, Mark talks about "6 paths to faith" which is a pop level wa

posted 5:49:00am Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

Confident Faith
I love apologetics, so when I happened into a Christian bookstore today I was happy to see a new apologetics book on the bestseller list. I was even more happy to see it came from Mark Mittelberg, an author I’m very familiar with. he went to my church and I was his son’s small group lead

posted 9:20:13pm Jun. 10, 2013 | read full post »

The Centrality of Grace
I have a big list of blog ideas. When I get an idea for a blog, I put it on the list. When I get time to write a blog, I open a list and write a page about the idea. Usually I add in some analogy to illustrate it or some argument for it’s truth if it’s controversial. Then I steak a pictu

posted 5:31:17pm Apr. 09, 2013 | read full post »

Apologetics and its Miscategorization
Generally speaking, the church tolerates apologetics nerds like myself. They acknowledge us, and withhold comment except perhaps to say something like “maybe you could teach a class or something sometime” Sometime never comes. Believe it or not that’s a pretty good lot for us, comparatively.

posted 4:07:52am Feb. 28, 2013 | read full post »