Gairney Bridge

OK, I know I’ve commented on churches that served Starbuck before, but… well, I’m going to do it again. Actually, I’m not going to pick at you too much (after all, you have to drink that dreadful over-roasted coffee, so you’ve got it pretty bad anyway — of course, it could be worse; it could […]

This sermon was preached on October 7, 2007, at Midlane Park Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church:
“Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),   2 and all the brethren who are with me, To the […]

On Wednesday evenings at Midlane Park, we are studying revivals in the OT, using Walter Kaiser’s book Revive Us Again. When I arrived home this evening and surfed the net, I came across this timely little writing, from Richard Baxter, on the pastor’s personal revival. It’s pretty convicting.
I know not what others think, but for […]

I may have seen it all now.
I ran across this article on World Magazine’s blog this afternoon. The “seeker sensitive” (or, as the author describes it, “bait and switch”) movement is getting sillier with each passing day.
It seems that churches are now using the video game Halo 3 as a means of getting the youth […]

OK, let’s try this Monday Musings thing again: I honestly haven’t come to a final opinion on this, but I was wondering what others out there might think. Last week, while traveling or from presbytery, I heard Hank Hannegraff commenting on a new Bible resource: The Word of Promise NT Audio Bible. It’s actually a […]

Neo-Darwinism is not really science; rather, it is philosophical position that depends upon (unproven) naturalistic presuppositions about the world. I ran across this article this morning (ok, it’s a bit of an old article, from June 2006 — when I originally decided to blog about this, I thought it said 2007…). It seems 600 more […]

This article is nothing new (especially for anyone who’s read This Little Church Went to Market), but it does do a good job pointing out one of the failings of America’s love with the church growth movement (not that the author, or I, has any problem with churches growing; rather, as he points out, this […]

I drove six hours (one way) on Monday to attend a presbytery meeting, my first since accepting the call to pastor my current church. It was an eventful presbytery, as it is the first time that I can recall that two (not one, but two!) churches in our presbytery requested to leave the denomination. Unlike […]

This is a sermon preached on September 30, 2007, from John 4:20-24:
“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither […]