Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The authority of community, both in the present tense and across time (tradition), is a guardrail that keeps individuals from veering into heresy.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
it isn’t too surprising that millennials, who crave authenticity, can smell a rat.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
The “host” culture is changing faster than most of us (inside and out of the church) realize.
John S. Dickerson • The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare
The people loved Thomas because he defended the power of the pastor to drive the people into the time-bending wormhole of salvation,
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
There cannot be true revival unless there has been reformation, and reformation is incomplete without revival.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
The sufficiency and availability of God’s grace to all people is scandalous, and for many, a pill too hard to swallow.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
If “you are what you think,” then changing what you think should change who you are, right? Right?
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
If the church is going to thrive in the twenty-first century, she needs to be willing to demand more of her members. She needs to assert the importance of covenants over comfort, even if that is a message that will turn off some.