Archive for July 26th, 2010

What’s Going on Here?

Yazan: ayong | 26 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

From Great Commission Publications . . . “What’s going on here?” That’s the question the teacher asks when she returns to find her classroom in chaos, or the parent when he sees his children misbehaving. “What’s going on here?” my also be an appropriate question to ask many congregations as they assemble week after week [...]

Discerning The Difference Between Containers and Content

Yazan: ayong | 26 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

A few months ago I had the privilege of speaking to a few classes at Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. During a Q&A, someone asked me what things we can do to keep our meetings from becoming dull, rote, and routine. Although there are probably a number of ways to answer that question, what [...]

Honest as a Huguenot

Yazan: ayong | 26 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 283: “Honest as a Huguenot” was as proverbial in the seventeenth century as the respect for law of the Dutch which Sir. W. Temple admired, and, a century later, that of the English as compared with those Continental peoples that had not been through [...]

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