There is only one virtue left for people in our part of the world. We are notoriously squeamish about being to concrete about what is right and wrong, not wishing to absolutize anything too strongly. The one thing we consider virtuous is sincerity, being “true to yourself"...

As global Pentecostalism continues to reshape the character of Christianity (second in size now only to Catholicism, and rapidly gaining), it is not surprising that the shape of corporate worship is transformed as well....

I made up my mind that if I was going to blog again, it would be for the sake of providing at least some modest counsel with regard to discipleship (thus not so much random blog “rants”). This is really not a rant, at least I don’t think....

Submission is a frightful word to our ears, steeped as we are in the gospel of self. But there is perhaps no more crucial discipline to a life of real gospel liberation, learning to submit to God, leaders, and ultimately to be subject to one another. Rebel against your own individualism, and follow Jesus into a life of self-emptying, God-glorifying service...