Videos :: Desiring God These interviews with some of the speakers at the 2006 Desiring God National Conference (Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2006) were used in promotion of the event. I want you to especially watch the ones by John Piper and Mark Driscoll. Piper gives an overview of what this conference was to be about. ...

Be sure to read the previous post before this one. In short, I reject the reactionary position that the church is to be summarized solely as missional. Mission is an essential part of the church, but it is only one of many essential parts. God is love, but it is wrong to say that love is God. Similarly, the...

Be sure to read the previous post before reading this one. “Our focus needs to change from just ministering to those within our midst to those that are outside our doors.” I think I understand the idea behind this sentence, and I agree that Christians need to express genuine love and compassion for tho...

A student in my class began a discussion on “Missional Ministry” with this post. I am going to post a reply to this post and then my reply to that reply. For many churches when we talk about missions or missions it is a program of the church. We have a missions committee and we have missions c...

Becoming Missional Here is a blog for those in favor of “missional” ministry.

Are you engaging the world around with the message of Jesus Christ? Is the Gospel at the heart of your ministry? What would your ministry look like if you were to challenge yourself and your church to make Jesus Christ the center of everything that you do? Over the past few years, the leadership of Saylorvill...

What is a Missional Community Here is some more reading for you! More stuff from my class that I am trying to get my mind around. Click on the link above A missional community is a group of Jesus’ apprentices who so trust his brilliance and mastery of life, that they learn from him how to be like him for th...

The Emerging Church, by D. A. Carson I thought this article would be interesting to go ahead and post. Also I am in the middle of a discussion in my Contemporary Theological Issues class through Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, PA. I may post some of the discussions later.

By: Daniel B. Wallace , Th.M., Ph.D. January 2005 In the first essay, I spoke of three approaches to culture that Christians take: opposition, assimilation, and engagement. I argued that engagement, in which discernment about the good and bad in society, was the only proper route for us. In this essay, I want...

By: Daniel B. Wallace , Th.M., Ph.D. January 2005 Postmodernism officially began in 1960, but as with all youngsters it has taken some time to find its place in the world. Universities are generally one of the first places where new ideas take hold, while culture at large lags behind. And what lags behind the...

εις επαινον δοξης αυτου: Machen’s Lecture to his Students at Princeton, March 10th, 1929 Interesting post I found on a friends page.

To understand what post-modernism is, it’s more useful to compare it to what it isn’t. Post-modernism broadly refers to the cultural period that succeeded the “modern” era, as historians know it. Roughly describing the period of time between the end of the “Victorian” era t...

Here is goes. I am going to attempt to create a discussion about postmodernism. This is what I will be learning, finding, and wrestling with. Will you join me?