Glenn Beck:
I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them…are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
Lots of reaction out there, including from Scot McKnight and Skye Jethani.
Bill Streger’s post on church planters and “uncool people” and his subsequent clarification.
Bill’s point was mainly a general question: Is it possible the new church planting movement(s) is neglecting certain American mission fields because they aren’t “fashionable” mission fields?
I think that’s an excellent question, and my answer is “yes,” it is absolutely possible this is the case.
Unfortunately, more than a few took Bill’s words as negativity toward Acts 29, some even accusing him of criticizing Mark Driscoll and Keller. Those who actually read the piece carefully know he wasn’t doing any such thing. (The part about Driscoll and Keller said nothing negative about those men; it merely asked if maybe some young men were making idols of them like so many made idols of Hybels and Warren. And the answer to this question is undoubtedly yes.)…For my part, I think the inflammatory pushback to Bill’s honest questions are warning signs. Absolute refusal to self-reflect and self-criticize is not a sign of organizational health, and these are elements of the church growth movement’s ongoing dysfunction.
Nick Charalambous’s observations on his year as web pastor of NewSpring Church.
Michael Patton’s five questions to ask yourself if you’re considering the ministry.
Next time you go church shopping 
here’s 10 questions R.C. Sproul Jr. has for you to ask your prospective pastor.
Pete Wilson: Most pastors have no friends – and why that’s not a good thing.
Listen to the new Passion album, Awakening, for free once at Tony Morgan’s blog.
Tony Morgan: Why can’t things be both/and instead of either/or in the church?
I posted this here as well as on the other PP blog and on The City.
How?
How did you get access?
I posted this earlier this afternoon on the .com….copied it over to my church’s The City site, and copied it over here from The City.
I am in the process of reposting the thread articles from Sunday on over here; the site may be down but the RSS feed is not…
When I posted it on the .com, everything was fine.
You are rebuilding with the RSS feed?
I can’t access the comments, just the main articles.
I’m checking now to see how far back the RSS feeds go.
Brian, you are amazing.
This is all we need…this is awesome!
If you subscribe to a blog feed, the articles should remain available in your reader even if the blog ceases publication, as long as you remain subscribed to the feed.
This is going back farther than I expected…I’m back to May 2006 and over 2,180 articles…
Here’s how far back: May 2006, 2,293 articles.
So it doesn’t have access to everything.
You’ll need an Army of volunteers (who subscribed to RSS feeds) to get all this stuff.
BrianD, You’re amazing in how you go about doing what you do without any fanfare. Thanks.
Jake thinks we can rescue the main database…just having what we have now is great and we’ll use this until we redesign the other.
What an incredible job you did!
Brian, you said, “volunteers (who subscribed to RSS feeds”
does that mean if we had not already been a subscriber we won’t be able to get there to help?
I’m not sure if you could or not, Dusty.
Try posting this in your RSS reader: http://phoenixpreacher.com/?feed=rss2
If you have Google Reader, click on Add a Subscription in the upper left hand corner.
I got it…it came up! ok…so how do I help?
How many articles came up?
As far as helping…hold tight, wait to see if Michael needs any help.
it’s still loading…700 – Jan 08…still loading…
1400 – December 07….still loading.
Having fun yet?
2293 ….wow….that is a long way back…good job Brian, good job.
Thanks, Dusty.
It took awhile to go through all of those posts, didn’t it? I’m glad that my solution worked…but hopefully Jake will be able to get the entire old database up.
it did take a while…..even on ‘list’ view….it was kind of cool though to read some of the titles…and say “oh, I remember that one’ ‘that one was fun’…..
All I could think was, ‘this is a week’s vacation to restore everything this way’
March 19, 2019…”We’re Back” ….the site had been hacked…
On C Michael Patton, on how to know if you should be a minister:
Wow! How about THE WILL OF GOD?!?! What Jesus says?
27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
4. “Are doors being opened through your experience? This has to do with financial doors and circumstances that make the path clearer.”
Is this how it is in YOUR respective worlds?
Myself, and most I know, have opposition like HELL at some point (usually the early stages) in starting the ministry. “Every Word of God is tested”
Regarding Glenn Beck, here’s a pretty good response:
http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/glenn-beck-run-from-churches-that-tout-social-justice
Summary: if Beck follows his own advice he’ll be looking for a new church.
we’ve just replaced Bill Hybels and Rick Warren with Tim Keller and Mark Driscoll
I’ve been wondering if I was the only one who thought this.
Here is a link to add – since there seems to be so little controversy swirling around the .net site.
Will Rick Warren preach about Jesus and the Resurrection on Easter Sunday or will it be about himself and Saddleback Church?
I might as well stir things up a bit.
http://www.alittleleaven.com/2010/03/jonas-brothers-to-perform-at-saddlebacks-easter-service.html
MLD –
Sorry, but there’s nothing controversial about an ODM taking a cheap shot at a megapastor.
Wake me when you’ve got a “man bites dog” story rather than a “dog bites man” story.
MDSF,
“Wake me when you’ve got a “man bites dog” story rather than a “dog bites man” story.”
You shouldn’t be asleep at times like this.
MLD –
You shouldn’t be asleep at times like this.
Thanks for taking the high road here.