The only person in the church required to be more precise than the choir is the person who instructs the choir. The only person in the churc

Gospel-centered preaching tweaks the Gospel to be about self-acceptance. It is a message that says, “God accepts you, he wants you to be you

The hypocrisy of the Gospel-centered preaching is that it is not Great Commission preaching. If the preacher proclaims that Christ is mighty

The lecture needs a comeback.

Book recommendation for a new work of historical theology on the doctrine of conversion.

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has published their massive survey on American denominational identity. The study confirms what other lesser st...

The first law of VBS: don’t run out of red drink. Most church kids remember well the summertime tradition of VBS week. Mom’s exhausting them

In the summer of 1989, the American magazine National Interest published an essay with the provocative title "The End of History?"

American Christianity needs to begin thinking in terms of survival and retention, not as a primary agenda, but as an agenda nonetheless.

Changing worldwide demographics demonstrated the urgent need to study the altar call and the conversionism that has become codified in the A

As an April Fools’ gag a few years ago NPR published the following article: As you might imagine, the “comments” section was soon filled with folks who wishe...

You will, no doubt, be given pause at the discovery that The Culture of Conversionism and the History of the Altar Call is self-published. I

Since the beginning of days human beings have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loin cloths of their fellow cavers. Northern E

Historical figures get frozen in time, remembered for those one or two bullet point things. For Isaac Newton it is the apple falling on his

The altar call is simultaneously the most central and most unstudied methodology in the American church in the past two hundred years. Those

Altar call language is now repellent clichés that drop out of the mouth of the conversionism preacher.

Christopher Columbus’ (1451-1506) American voyages did not convince Europe that the earth was round, at least not until Washington Irving’s 1837 book, Histor...

There is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ seventeen meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea. Unbeknownst to its creator, Guido Galletti, the statue, Ch...

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