According to the Hartford Institute for Religious Studies, here are the top ten largest churches in the United States: Lakewood Church, 43,500 (Joel Osteen) LifeChurch, 35,000 (Craig Groeschel) Fellowship Church, 24,000 (Ed Young, Jr.) Willow Creek Community Church, 23,400 (Bill Hybels) North Point Community Church, 23,375 (Andy Stanley) Second Baptist Church, 22,700 (Edwin Young, #3’s… Read More »
Last year, Rob Bell wrote a controversial book on who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. Then he resigned his role as teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church. Now, his successor Shane Hipps is resigning because the megachurch is falling apart and the board has decided to reorganize, placing the teaching pastor under… Read More »
This morning, our beloved congregation will worship without us. Nichole and I are in Syracuse, New York for a conference and concert. I’ll be completely honest. I don’t like being away. It is more nerve-wracking than being there. When you invest so much of yourself into something you believe is God’s thing, you become very… Read More »
Skye Jethani has some good things to say about freedom of religion and the way Islam is sometimes mischaracterized.
In the midst of terrorism and presidential elections (and sometimes I am not sure which people take more seriously), remember that historically human government has opposed the work of the Church far more often than government has supposed us. Rather than complaining about the way the government makes life difficult, the followers of Christ should… Read More »
The NFL’s Carolina Panthers have updated their logo in what has to be one of the most underwhelming changes I have ever seen. One of the team’s executives said it was a necessary update for “ever-increasing digital use.” I am still trying to figure out how this change really does much of anything for the… Read More »
Being the pastor of an intimate congregation is always a challenge. Our congregation is just about big enough to be able to pay our bills, but not big enough to have the financial base for hiring new staff. That means everything has to be done by volunteers cooperating. One of the differences between working with… Read More »
A good article from Tall Skinny Kiwi on everything that is wrong with some pastors who use their place to make money. How Pastors Get Rich
Yochanan b. Zecharyah was a Jewish teacher and prophet known to the Christian world as John the Baptist. In the gospel of Luke, he is Jesus of Nazareth’s second cousin and the son of a Jewish priest. Appearing at the beginning of all four gospels and described as the “forerunner” of the Messiah and the… Read More »
Joel Watts and I don’t always see eye to eye on everything. We encountered each other through a third blogger, Jason Skipper, when Jason started a forum for revitalizing the Fundamentals called re:F. Joel runs in what most would consider a more liberal, more mainline doctrinal discussion than I do, although more often than not… Read More »
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