Monthly Archives: April 2010

One of the temptations of our time is to minimize the importance of truth in favor of what feels right. Many around us find it hard to believe doctrine matters. Especially when considering worship style and church organization, some just cannot fathom a God who would concern himself with “such trivial matters.” The problem with [...]

Last week I started a conversation about the so-called emerging church movement. I used the terms emerging and emergent. “Emergent” technically refers to an organization, and “emerging” refers to the global movement within churches to express Christian faith with the terms of post-modern philosophy, but it has become normal to refer to those involved with [...]

It may surprise you to know we’re no longer living in modern times. Growing up I thought modern just meant current, or contemporary. Well, to be fair, that’s one meaning of the word, but the rise of post-modern thinking has complicated things. Perhaps you’ve heard of this thing called “the emerging (or emergent) church.” Maybe [...]

Modernism refers to the way of understanding the world through applying pure, scientific reason. Modernists recognize the existence of unchanging truths, right and wrong as absolutes, and, in general, the ability of any man or woman to arrive at truthful solutions to life’s problems through simple (sometimes complex) logic. Though the principles objective truth are [...]