Senior Pastor We are a dynamic, family-oriented, non-denominational Christian church nestled near the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA, seeking an experienced Senior Pastor with a passion for Preaching/Teaching and strong staff administration skills to lead our growth. POSITION DESCRIPTION: We have a staff of five that offers both traditional and contemporary worship services. Our facility is
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Full Time Senior Pastor at Maple Grove Christian in Charlottesville, VA
In last week’s post , I shared a list of lies and false beliefs from Nancy Leigh DeMoss’ book, Lies Women Believe . The second part of her book title is, “And the Truth That Sets Them Free.” Today I want to share the list of truths she counters those lies with. There is no marriage God cannot heal.
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Is Divorce Really the Answer? — Part 2
Well, its official. The Archbishop proposed, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion disposed.
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What makes The Episcopal Church so "Special" in the Archbishop’s eyes?
A conference sponsored by the Latter-day Saint Council on Mormon Studies, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame Held at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA March 18-19, 2011 In a world pervaded with religious fervor and seemingly perpetual war, it has become essential for religious believers to consider the realities of violent conflict and the possibilities for a more peaceful world.
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War and Peace in Our Times: Mormon Perspectives
What can one say about the Pentecostal slap-fest that is currently going on between Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and his counterpart here in the United States (his counterpart in every form of Anglican power that is meaningful, these days) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori? Let me make a few comments that strike me as rather obvious.
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Jefferts Schori (quietly) goes Pentecostal
The controversial Agape Ministries Church is “not a doomsday cult ” and any claims to the contrary are “a load of rubbish”, a criminal lawyer says.
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Agape Ministries Church ‘not a doomsday cult’ – lawyer
One of the things many of us struggle to fully embrace is the reality that we are loved unconditionally by God. It is hard to us to accept that we do not need to do anything to earn God’s love, that God truly loves as as we are, despite all of our imperfections.
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Dare to Believe
I picked up a copy of Helmut Thielicke’s Encounter with Spurgeon . Essentially it is a 45 page reflection on Spurgeon’s homiletics by a theologian you might not expect to rave so wildly about his work and ministry, followed by selected highlights from Spurgeon’s writings. I have not read Thielicke since studying ethics at seminary, but I will have to be disciplined not to just copy most of the 45 pages here in the next few days! However, I do think this can be a Thielicke on Spurgeon week as far as this blog is concerned.
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Theme Number One in the Church
The banner for PRELUDIUM has been for the past while this quote from William Stringfellow : “The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of, and reliance upon, and the celebration of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.” I’ve been reading a biography of Bede Griffiths today and thinking about the Vedanta understanding and use of holy scripture and the high sense of “the Word” as being both about the Creator, the whole of Creation as a “book” whose story peaks in the coming of the Christ, physical and cosmic, and the Spirit of Truth that flows from the scripture and informs both the understanding of Creator, Christ and Spirit. It was an afternoon with few words and time to listen to them as they worked together for my soul’s health.
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A quiet late night meditation on being fed by the Word.
Paul Harvey I spent a lot of time growing up waiting in the hospital waiting room. This wasn’t because I was ever ill when younger, or because I sustained any injuries more grievous than spraining my ankle about 10,000 times playing basketball for the last 40 years. Rather, my father, a family physician in a small town and one of just two doctors for one entire county in the Oklahoma Panhandle, got called in a lot — and if my mother wasn’t around, the hospital waiting room was my babysitter
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Cancer Cannot Kill Doggerel