The Burner posted his review of Machine Gun Preacher, but left out a large part of the criticism:
The service where Childers is portrayed to have come to Christ is among the most inauthentic and ludicrous portrayals of a church service TB has ever seen.
It’s like a crowd at a [...]
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In Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation (IVP, 2011), Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken use the metaphor of a “monster” that had taken up residence at their church in Folsom, California. They write that the staff at Oak Hills “could hear the monster [...]
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Fresh off her Oscar nomination last year for Up In The Air, Vera Farmiga wears the director and actress hat for the drama Higher Ground. Farmiga plays embattled wife and mother Corinne who comes to know Christ and joins a very small Christian intentional community/house church in upstate New York. [...]
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It’s a difficult process to engage your young folks and old folks together. But Kara Powell has a great idea in the latest issue of the Fuller Youth Institute newsletter:
In youth ministry, we talk a lot about a preferred ratio of one adult for every five kids on the retreat, or one adult [...]
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