Our Foot washing Liturgy from last year seems to be getting a load of hits at the moment... so to be helpful I'm bumping it :) http://markjberry.blogs.com/scraping.pdf It's included in "Navigatio" our book published by Proost Scraping off the Shit (A large bowl of water and Towels) Jesus knew that t...

Well, the news is out. The controversial Tood Bentley who spearheaded the "Lakeland Revival" last summer has divorced his first wife, Shonnah, and married "the other woman," Jessa. Wife number one is overweight, suffers after-effects from bouts of cancer, and is the mother of Bentley's three childre...

in my recent presentation at podcamp nashville on spirituality and social media i was talking specifically about podcasting when i made statement along the lines of 'sermon podcasts are lame.' i believe that statement.. really i do. i have posted sermons online, in video and audio format. i ...

Both Matt MacAdam and Bill Berger have pointed me to an article by Michael Spencer called The coming evangelical collapse: An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise (the original, complete posts can be found at Spence...

Women, if you’re going to church to try to find yourself a good man, you can pray to Jesus all you like, but your chances aren’t very good. In every denomination of Christianity in the United States, women strongly outnumber the men. If you’re looking for husband material, try the ...

john w ellis, who has become one of our buddies in the nashville tech circle video taped my talk from podcamp nashville on saturday. PodCamp Nashville: Spirituality & Social Media by Gavin Richardson from John Ellis on Vimeo some links to referenced sites real live preacher emerging church wikip...

this comes from a pastor friend ryan bennett, who posted this on his facebook. thought it was worthwhile sharing today. Well, the news is out today. The economy is bad - real bad. Recession is giving way to talk of Depression. The stock market is at its lowest point in over a decade, taking with it ...

I think this is a very thought provoking blog post over at Parchment and Pen. Here is the link. There is a sense in which God is happy when what we belief produces action. On the other hand, as mentioned in the last post on Romans 10, it is possible that we have lots of actions but can do so for all...

One of our main interpretive principles in the church of Christ is to speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where it is silent. I think that is a wonderful concept to try to attain. I respect our heritage and the overarching respect for scripture that our forefathers have brought to the table. ...

Some peoples’ standard for fellowship is that if someone is in error, in any matter whether big or small, they need to be disfellowshipped. If we are supposed to disfellowship people who have any error in any doctrine, would it stand to reason that in some point in time we should no longer hav...