End Times: Scary Sermons or Taboo Territory?
Are these the End Times? Are dangerous happenings in Syria and Iran the warning signs of a prophesied final battle? Are current political figures or …
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The End of Sermon Time as We Know It
The typical Sunday morning lecture time wasn’t working as well as it might. So, Pastor Rick Bundschuh set out to try some different approaches to engage …
Exporting America's Religious Duds
It’s a major American export. Church ministry methodology. Much of it is accomplishing great things for the sake of the Gospel. And some exported ministry …
We Don't Talk About That at Church
We talk about all kinds of juicy, newsy things with friends at work or school. But not at church. No. No. No. We can’t talk about …
Bible-Centered . . . or Jesus-Centered?
The man caught me after a screening of our documentary film, When God Left the Building. He wanted to talk about the “real reason” the …
10 Ways Through the Same-Sex Tsunami
Some say this is the one issue that will single-handedly destroy the church in America. I don’t buy that. But I do anticipate that some …
When Jesus Becomes a Fill-in-the-Blank
People describe the Christian faith as a “personal relationship with Jesus.” But in the church, how have we gone about encouraging and developing that relationship …
Kicking the Sermon Habit
It may be well-intended. It may be well-researched. It may be well-executed. But, the sermon, as we know it, fails to deliver. The weekly lecture …
An Epiphany for Lecture-Loving Pastors
The evidence mounts. The lecture style of teaching produces inferior results. A study reported in Scientific American exposes, again, how academia’s hardened use of the …
Sitting Through God School
In the beginning, when the Church-as-We-Know-It was invented, somebody asked, “How should we design this thing?” I imagine someone looked around and said, “Our job is to …