Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr. were both evangelical Christians. They both preached a gospel which was incomplete without the other. Graham's message needs King's message and vice versa.
Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr. were both evangelical Christians. They both preached a gospel which was incomplete without the other. Graham's message needs King's message and vice versa.
We actually know very little about the life of Jesus, a fact not often discussed by church leaders. What experiences might have shaped Jesus into the man he became?
Without hell, there'd be nothing to save anyone from. Without hell, the sole recommendation of Christianity would be the love of God proved through the atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
After years of saying the prayer, I still hungered for unceasing prayer. I wanted to know always that sweet sense of God's presence, which I tasted only fleetingly, intermittently.
I really wanted to know what types of individuals were drawn to what Harold Camping had to say, so I spoke with a Christian Pastor, a best-selling Christian author and a hypnotist with a Masters in Religion.
The church is indigenous from the start. It has always been self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing. Missionaries provide teaching and pastoral care alone.
It is much less a credit to Harold Camping's marketing machine, much less a problem with the obsessive behavior of the media, and much more an indictment of the rest of us who seek to bring faith and life together in relevant ways.
While the ancient sacraments will remain, everything else is up for debate. I have five predictions for the next decade of local church in America.
I think keeping the afterlife a complete mystery is God's way of telling us to pay maximum attention to the life we have on this side of the door.
In exchange for getting support for Planned Parenthood from the Republicans, the Democrats were more than ready to betray the poor people they claim to represent.
Some who have studied the issue say the money might be better spent giving directly to a country's Christian partners to spread the Gospel, or to offer medical aid or construction assistance.
Over the years, I've continued to ponder my initial reaction to that church and particularly to the hymns. What was it that I found difficult, even embarrassing?
As I paused to experience the stillness in which Miss Kitty was immersed, an image entered my mind -- an image of a global feline force that daily nourishes and sustains us all.
While in every last way pretending to be about practicing love, it's really about instilling fear. What Chan is really saying here is, "Be afraid. Being wrong about hell has terrible, terrible consequences."
No one ever lost money by betting against the apocalypse happening on a particular day. That's a joke among scholars of apocalypticism, and it was a c...
Claiming Camping knew he was "wrong" -- a.k.a. lying -- is a big deal because Harold Camping made some fairly serious claims when he started talking about Judgment Day.
Inaccurate, wrong, or wacky -- Camping's followers have told their story far better than major Christian denominations, mega-churches, and supposed "media" ministries have done.
Think about what has influenced your outlook on the world and what you expect from life. What will your descendants need to know to understand you and your world?
While it was easy for most of us to handily dismiss the lunatic predictions of Pastor Camping and his merry band of messianic misfits, what shouldn't be forgotten is just how unremarkable their basic belief-system is.
The sacred can be found in the most unexpected of places: at work, at home, or on a 2005 black cherry Harley Davidson Road King with bored out cylinders and custom pipes. It's all holy.