In December 2006 I was drawn into the tragedy of three missing climbers on Mount Hood because one of them, Kelly James, was the brother of beloved professor and friend, Frank James (then president of RTS-Orlando, now provost of Gordon-Conwell).Read more

Video from Matt

Matt Chandler is the pastor of the Village Church in Flower Mound, TX, north of Dallas/Fort Worth. Because he's a pastor, perhaps some readers will yawn at this verbiage: Matt loves Jesus.

He really does love Jesus. It's not perfunctory or staged. It's not schtick or a spiel. Matt is a servant to a King, a disciple to a Master, a son to a Father. His fondest ambitions are not the human-fabricated benchmarks of "success." Matt is not about building an empire, he's about growing the Kingdom.Read more

  Also from the Charlottesville Christian music scene this Advent comes the latest from Read more

Today I've seen two more reviews of the stunning Bifrost Arts new Christmas record, "Salvation is Created":

Steve McCoy, a pastor who blogs at Reformissionary.

Ryan Hamm, writing for Relevant Magazine.

Record: Salvation is Created by Bifrost Arts

Review by Rev. Kevin Twit who is the Campus Minister with Reformed University Fellowship at Belmont University. Kevin is also the founder of Indelible Grace Music.

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One of the barriers to the evangelical church being taken seriously is her penchant for closing her eyes to brokenness.  We often prefer to live in what Walter Kirn (in an excellent article in GQ a few years back) called "the ark culture."  Kirn, who does not profess faith in Christ, spent thirty days completely immersed in the Christian subculture – only listening to Christian music, watching Christian TV, and getting his news from Christian websites.  He even strictly followed the "WWJE" (what would Jesus eat?) diet.  He describes what it felt like to live in this weird little world for thirty days as being like living on an "ark" desperately trying to maintain the illusion that we are safe and that all is well.  His words need to be taken seriously by those of us who care about Christ and His cause in this world.

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Thanksgiving is over and the Christmas season is officially upon us.  Read more

Please check out my good friend, Walter Henegar's, sermon here from this past Sunday.  It's on hell of all things.  Grab a box of tissues for the last 5-8 minutes.  I rarely cry but I was teared up big time at the end of this one.

Baseball fans know that there is something magical about the great broadcasting voices throughout the history of the sport. Legendary broadcasters like Harry Kalas (Phillies), Vin Scully (Dodgers), and Ernie Harwell (Tigers) are about as important a part of the sport’s rich lore as the players themselves.Read more