PHILIP YANCEY, THE FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST, A REASON TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF WORSHIP BANDS, ORTHODOXY

PHILIP YANCEY just published his top ten blog entries for 2013.  They are:

1. Farewell Brennan (remembering the writer and priest Brennan Manning)
2. Why Do They Hate Us? (reflections on the Boston Marathon bombing)
3. Fragile Beauty (a celebration of frost flowers, a rare natural phenomenon)
4. Who Believes What? (Willow Creek Church’s panel on various religions)
5. Mandela's Miracle (the legacy of Nelson Mandela)
6. How Sweet the Sound (an illustration of grace from Les Misérables)
7. Notes from Newtown (a report from my visit there)
8. The Kingdom of God Is Alive and Well (good news from a church in Colombia)
9. Apostle to the Rednecks (remembering the radical preacher Will Campbell)
10. Two Cheers for Radicals (celebrating contemporary Christian radicals)

THE FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST - "We confess that we have often lost the fullness of our Christian heritage, too readily assuming that the Scripture and the Spirit make us independent of the past. In so doing, we have become theologically shallow, spiritually weak, blind to the work of God in others and married to our cultures.

.… We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the gospel; but we cannot be fully evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other times and movements concerning the whole meaning of that gospel." Click HERE for an interesting article in Christianity Today.

A REASON TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF WORSHIP BANDS is a thoughtful corrective to what is happening in some churches.  Click HERE.

ORTHODOXY - Our niece has found a home at The Orthodox Church in Mechanicsburg, PA, which reflects a trend toward a more traditional style of worship. They describe themselves as:"Evangelical, but not Protestant, Orthodox but not Jewish.  Catholic but not Roman.  Not Non-Denomination, but Pre-Denominational.  

Orthodoxy has been believed, taught, preserved, defended, and died for and has proclaimed the truth since 33AD."

I have learned from our niece, and appreciate and respect her faith journey.