The Burner ventured on down to downtown L.A. (right across the street from Teramachi Luxury homes for residents “55 or Better“) on Saturday night to attend a screening of Munyurangabo and to meet Brett McCracken, CT film critic and current blogosphere shooting star for his book, Hipster Christianity: [...]
more...
If you’re the pastor of a small church, then it’s easy to cross off the issues in the world that you don’t feel you have the resources to confront. Take adoption and orphan care. Big problems need a big church.
Or not. Check out this article from EdStetzer.com (by Together [...]
more...
It’s official, The Burner has run the numbers: Churches should receive $442 billion dollars every year.
Follow TB down the primrose math:
116 million American households (75% Christian) bringing in an average of $50,233 and should tithe a total of $442 billion dollars. What’s the Church going to do with [...]
more...
According to this story in the NYT (published almost one month ago), pastors “now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, their use of antidepressants has risen, while their life expectancy has fallen. Many would change jobs if they could.” (HT: more...
Thanks, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. There is something with the world today, and you can visit the problem areas using the beautiful photos featured on boston.com‘s The Big Picture blog. From the landslides in Pakistan and China, to the forest fires in Russia, to the Gulf oil spill (or the one [...]
more...When I was challenged to make racial and ethnic reconciliation the focus of my ministry, I asked several people for prayer and counsel concerning this very important decision. When I asked a dear brother and colleague in ministry named Paul whether he thought that I should pursue this calling he gave me a very sobering [...]
more...
© Lowell W. Berry Center for Lifelong Learning, Fuller Theological Seminary. All rights reserved.
The Burner is powered by
WordPress
Entries (RSS)
and Comments (RSS).
Designer: Kristin Myers Harvey | Developer: Jason Loftis
