Jon D. Payne
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“12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You” by Tony Reinke
Like it nor not, the smartphone is changing everything. Only a decade old, it is the most dominant culture-and-life-shaping technology in the world. With its myriad practical and compelling functions—Internet, phone, e-mail, texting, GPS, camera, photos, video, podcasts, music, social media, alarm clock, and so on—it has become virtually impossible to live without. This wouldn’t […]
Hipster or Herald?
In his noteworthy book Hipster Christianity, Brett McCracken describes the modern faddish approach to the Christian faith as being “more concerned with its image and presentation and ancillary appeal” than with real substance. “It assumes that mere Christianity isn’t enough or isn’t as important as how Christianity looks and is perceived by the outside world.” […]
Recovering the Lost Treasure of Evening Worship
I once heard of an elderly Christian woman who had difficulty walking due to chronic arthritis. Despite her condition, she faithfully attended morning and evening worship every Lord’s Day. When asked how she always managed to come to both services, she responded with, “My heart gets there first, and my legs just follow after.” Unfortunately […]
The Great Omission
When it comes to the Great Commission, Christian churches and missionary agencies are looking for better methods. God, however, is looking for better churches. Because churches are God’s method. (1) Regrettably, many seem to have developed biblical amnesia concerning God’s appointed method and means for missions’namely, the going forth of ordained missionary-pastors for the express […]
“Worship and the Reality of God: An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence” by John Jefferson Davis
In general, American evan- gelicals have lost a true sense of the holiness, transcendence, and majesty of God. This is due in large part to a philosophy of public worship that appears to be focused more upon the presence of felt needs than upon the presence of God’and his divinely appointed means of grace. In […]
