Dec
23
2010
Worth a Look 12.23.10
CNN has an interesting story on Francis Chan’s decision to leave his church and travel through Asia:
Chan has been traveling across Asia, according to his website, where his wife Lisa has posted periodic updates. She wrote that the family has been to India and Thailand, visiting small churches and missionaries. In an October update, she mentioned Chan was preaching again: “Francis spoke a great message of encouragement to this little body of Christ hidden away in a slum in India . 100 years from now we will be worshiping together. We will look each other in the eye and KNOW that it was worth it.”
Earlier this year, I introduced you to Aaron Coe, a pioneering church-planter in New York City. One of the church plants he has been associated with needs help with VBS next year. Here’s how you can be a part.
Good will toward whom? All? Or Only Those with whom God is Pleased? Mark D. Roberts answers here:
What’s going on here? Are today’s Christians stingy with God’s good will? Are we becoming like the early Ebenezer Scrooge, wanting to hoard all the grace for ourselves? No, Bible translators are not becoming more hardhearted and less gracious. They are becoming more exact in their effort to faithfully translate the Greek of the New Testament into today’s English, even if this appears less gracious at first.
Bob Kauflin on how music can become idolatrous in worship (HT – Z):
Good gifts can become gods. Music turns from a gift to a god when we look to it for the joy, comfort, power & satisfaction only God can give. Here are 5 indicators that might be happening.
Billy Graham’s first television interview in several years took place Monday night with Greta Van Susteren. See video below.