Reading Ken Myers’ book All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes has convinced me more than ever that the church must deliberately create and sustain a Christian counter-culture in order to fulfill our Lord’s command to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Popular culture, the culture in which we as modern Americans live and move and have our being, creates precisely…
Posts from September 2021
On September 26th, Mt. Rose will resume the practice of having a worship service on Sunday evenings. Since some of you may be new to a church with a Sunday evening service, and since you may wonder if this is a good idea, and since in general the practice of worshiping twice on the Lord’s Day is getting rarer and rarer, I…
Sunday Sermon. We’re fast approaching the end of the 1 Timothy! My plan is to finish 1 Timothy this Lord’s Day and then pick up where we left off with Isaiah. As I thought about the fact I’ve almost preached through 1 Timothy, I was reminded of what a privilege it is to study systematically books of the Bible in my sermon…