Have the right shrunk God?

Interesting interview on The Colbert Report of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend about her book Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way

Emergent Midwest Gathering Audio

The audio from the Emergent Midwest Gathering that took place a couple of weeks ago is available at www.emergetmidwest.com . So if you where like me and unable to attened you can now listen to some things you missed.

Certainty of Faith

One of my favorite bloggers Scot McKnight poses the question "When we we claim to have certainty about our faith are we actually claiming a kind of justification by works- a work called reason? This is a great question and worthy of discussion.

Blest be the tie that binds

Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.
We share each other’s woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
From sorrow, toil and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

This song was written by John Fawcett, he became an ordained Baptist minister on this date in 1765. He wrote this song after deciding to stay at the small church he was at instead of going on to a large church in London [i] May this be our song , a song that we can sing honestly. Just as the Trinity is a community so must we live in community, we cannot go it alone.


[i] Robert J Morgan, On This Day (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997), July 31.

The B-I-B-L-E, yes that's the book for me

"The B-I-B-L-E, yes that's the book for me" That is first part of the song we sung every Sunday in my Sunday school class and I would say just about every other evangelical church. I am in the process of organizing my home office and go looking at all the Bibles that I have: KJV, NKJV, New Living, New Century, NIV, TNIV Revised Standard, NASB, Message, and a Spanish version. With multiple variations of each version, including study, pocket slim line, leather, hard back, paperback, you get the idea. It’s the second part of the song that got me thinking though, “I stand alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E”. Do I stand alone? Can anyone stand alone? I wonder how the Holy Spirit feels about an attempt to stand alone. Anyone one that attempts to stand alone is easily knocked down, it is standing together that makes us strong.

Theology Quiz

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern, You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 89% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 82% Neo orthodox 75% Roman Catholic 54% Classical Liberal 43% Charismatic/Pentecostal 39% Reformed Evangelical 32% Modern Liberal 29% Fundamentalist 21% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com