Backward Mutters

Category: Ministry

  • The Agenda of Seminary

    Dr. Richard Pratt was asked to comment on what he would change about seminary by the Gospel Coalition. You can read the whole article here. Incidentally, I had another friend who was told by his mentor who, upon hearing that he was going to seminary warned: You’ll loose all your courage,…

  • A Shrinking Condundrum

    An Associated Press article which came out this week entitled,  Methodist survey aims to stop membership decline NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s the conundrum Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets are desperate to solve: How to stem the decades-long losses and attract new worshippers.The United Methodist Church, the third…

  • American Teenage Mutant Christians

     Thanks Nathan G for pointing to this. ( via CNN) — If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.”…

  • Confession: Water of Life

    I’ve been considering writing out prayers for our congregation’s worship service. Here’s this Sunday’s Confession. Our Heavenly Father, forgive us our sin. Instead of turning to you who is the fount of every blessing, we have dug cisterns of our own when we were thirsty. We have, in our stubbornness,…

  • Tim Keller on Demythologizing the Culture from GC 10

    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5834236&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Tim Keller Session 1 from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.