Saturday, July 01, 2023

Saturday Lagniappe: 'How Pastoral Pitfalls and Failures Contribute to Dechurched Casualties' And More


In this episode of As in Heaven, Jim Davis and Mike Aitcheson welcome back Justin Holcomb to discuss how pastoral pitfalls and failures can ultimately lead to “dechurched casualties.” They’ll delve deeper into the topics of malpractice, narcissism, and guarding our kids from sexual abuse.

What Is Calvinism? A Simple Explanation of Its Terms, History & Tenets
“What is Calvinism?” Any attempt to give just one answer is sure to be wrong.
Why this article on Calvinism and three articles on Arminianism? Two variants of Reformed theology--Calvinism and Arminianism--comprise theological strands in historic Anglicanism. While self-identified Calvinists and Arminians in Anglican and Anglican-tradition churches would prefer that there was only a single theological strand, the earliest of the three historic Anglican formularies--the 39 Articles of Religion of 1571 was compiled by a moderately Reformed English Archbishop and the two other historic formularies--The Book of Common Prayer of 1662 and its annexed Ordinal were compiled by Arminian bishops.
What Is Classical Arminianism?
...no one seems to go to Arminians to find out what Arminianism is, and so everyone seems to have the wrong idea.

Introductory and Historical Questions About Arminianism
Terrance Tiessan takes a look at Arminianism fro what he describes as an "irenic Calvinist" perspective.

Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities 
Martin Povey reviews Thomas Odgen's exposition and defense of Arminian theology.

Read the Text Before You Preach
What if we sliced off a bit of scripture here, pasted it in there, omitted a reference over yonder, and pretended the result is what Jesus actually said? That happens. (Fortunately, it happens rarely. But it is done often enough to make it a concern to those who value God’s word and our integrity.)

A Problem in Prayer: Learning to Ask as We Ought
As C.S. Lewis ended his lecture on petitionary prayer, he asked his audience of clergymen a question: “How am I to pray this very night?” He did not know. “I have no answer to my problem, though I have taken it to about every Christian I know, learned or simple, lay or clerical, within my own Communion or without” (C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection, 204). What problem could he not solve? In short, he could not reconcile the seemingly mutually exclusive ways in which we are taught to make our requests known to God.

Five Reasons Why People Don’t Volunteer
If you’ve been in children’s ministry any length of time, then you know just how essential volunteers are.

No VBS? No Problem!
What is the biggest buzzword in the world of children’s ministry right now? VBS! Such a teeny, tiny, short word, but boy! how much excitement (or dread) it evokes!
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