Joshua One Ministries

Two interesting articles about churches being involved in politics.
The first is a New York Times article about the pastor of a Minneapolis megachurch who preached that he would not lead his church in political activism, because he does not believe politics is the solution. As a result, about 1,000 conservative Christians among his 5,000 attenders [...]

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Let me fill you in on two important Christian blogs: SmartChristian.com and RedBlueChristian.com. SmartChristian is one of the most popular blogs in the Christian blogosphere, drawing 3,000 visitors a day. RedBlueChristian is brand new, just launched 11 days ago.

Dr. Andrew Jackson
Both blogs are hosted by Dr. Andrew Jackson. Jackson, ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian church, [...]

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Francis Schaeffer
I mentioned Francis Schaeffer’s The Church at the End of the 20th Century a few days ago (see “What Will the Church Be Like 30 Years from 1970?”). Schaeffer is one of the great Christian philosopher-theologians of the preceding century. I’m reading the aforementioned 1970 book for the first time, and I promised to [...]

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Interesting article in the Washington Post about the importance of blogging as an extension of a church’s preaching and communicating. (Hat tip: TwoOrThree).

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Bud Brown, connections minister at Heights Church, Prescott, AZ, requires that volunteer ministry leaders have and use email to allow for the best coordination of ministries at their church. He wrote this at his blog, Altitude:
I have made it a policy that those key volunteers who help me run the volunteer staff in the various [...]

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Does Israel have a right to exist? Did Jews returning to their homeland displace millions of Palestinians who were already living there? Was the creation of modern Israel a compensation for the Nazi holocaust, at the expense of Palestinian citizens already living there?
Short answers:
• Yes, Israel has as much of a right [...]

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Rick Warren says he will preach a public Christian service in North Korea next year. He writes about it on his blog, RickWarren.com, which he just began publishing last month. He says it will be “the first public outdoor Christian service in North Korea in 50 years.”

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I have been reading Francis Schaeffer’s book, The Church at the End of the 20th Century. Schaeffer, the great evangelical philosopher-theologian who died in 1984, published the book in 1970. It has been on my shelf for years, but I am reading it now for the first time.
Part of the intrigue of reading this book [...]

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Independent Christian Voice has gone “off the air” — on “indefinite hiatus.” Too bad. ICV is a blog written by evangelical Christians who addressed contemporary issues from a progressive point of view, rather than the usual right-wing hash most evangelical blogs spoon up. They obviously were meeting a demand for an alternative Christian point of [...]

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My paternal grandmother died yesterday afternoon at the age of 105. She was the oldest resident of her nursing home, and the last of my surviving grandparents. I will preach her funeral this Saturday in Arlington, Texas.
No condolences are necessary. When a person dies at 105, nobody asks, “Why, Lord? Why [...]

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