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Full Text If you are an engineering student you’ve heard the joke that goes with that question. I like that joke. I think that joke captures a whole bunch of folk wisdom beyond just being funny. I probably should just post this and not say much. But I’m dumb that way. To me, what the Rob . . . → Read More: Is Hell endothermic or exothermic? Scott McKnight continues to follow “The New Calvinism” backed up by a Barna group survey. I love this fight, because I think it is an example of things we divide over, but the Biblical view is don’t. Here is the short-hand. If you have ever been part of Protestantism not of the Lutheran variety you . . . → Read More: Calvinist/Arminian, Orthodox/Pietist, Paul meet James Tim Keller on successful . . . → Read More: Context is important Being a Lutheran puts one outside of normative American religious landscape. Here is what I mean by that. An old joke used to run What is an Episcopalian? A: A Presbyterian with a trust fund. And it would then go on down the socio-economic ladder. Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist. . . . → Read More: Evangelical: What is in a name?  Comments are closed  Baptism, Church Direction, Culture  Baptism, catholic church, church, evangelical, fellowship This file is the slides from the pastoral portion of the congregational meeting. We had some good discussion around the these. We also accepted a slate of candidates for the offices in the church next and talked about the upcoming budget. If you were unable to attend by have any questions, you know where to . . . → Read More: Congregational Meeting The Pew Forum on Religion and Public life has a new survey out (this is the full pdf.) If you have read any of Prothero (this book is the closest on topic), the survey seems to be made to beat one of his drums – the desperate need for religious education. Of course that . . . → Read More: A couple of graphs spurred by a Pew Center Survey. Comments are closed Church Direction, Culture attendance, magisterial, ministerial, Pew, reason, religious knowledge, schools Most organizations or institutions do not make changes until they just stop functioning. Somewhere in a vague past the complexity and size that an institution had built up actually helped. Then it stops. But the institution can’t even think about operating in another way. That is the way we’ve always done things . . . → Read More: A Virtue of a Necessity Comments are closed Church Direction, Culture catholics, change, identity, institutions, leadership, organizations, schools, Truth Biology has the famous Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. That is the way that science has developed to talk about living things. As we understand more about DNA, some surprising things have happened on those tree branches. But the start of it really goes back to the childhood car game – . . . → Read More: Separating Law and Gospel – a look-in at the ELCA Open invite to everyone in the West Henrietta Area. Worship and Rally Day for Sunday School @ 10 AM Bounce House, Ice Cream, Chili Contest, Games and a bunch of other fun stuff starting at noon and continuing to 4 PM. Come and have some fun as we say good bye to summer and come back to . . . → Read More: September 12, 2010 – 12 PM – 4 PM – Free Community Festival As the Pastor of a smaller congregation (I can’t really say small anymore because our average attendance now places us around the 50th percentile), also as a pastor who had a successful run doing something else before, articles like this pop up on my screen. Truth be told, this is part of the reason I . . . → Read More: Things that can’t go on, eventually don’t… Comments are closed Church Direction budget worries, church growth, congregations, denominations, mission, pastoral education, pastors |
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