Expositional or topical preaching?

I find I resonate with the mission statement of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, “we are becoming a worshipful community of missional theologians.” While our church will not likely have a vision statement like that, I hope ours will not be in disagreement. In this post, I’d like to focus on the “theologian” portion. […]

Christianity has an image problem

It’s obvious that elements of our society are becoming resistant or even hostile to Christianity, but what may not be obvious is the depth of such resistance nor what the future portends as a result. A new study by Barna Research gives fact-based insight into this topic and is discussed in a new book by […]

A troubling development

A new study by The Barna Group conducted among 16- to 29-year-olds shows that a new generation is more skeptical of and resistant to Christianity than were people of the same age just a decade ago. Analysis of this research is reported in the book unChristian by David Kinnaman. According to the article on the […]