by Mark Farnham | May 28, 2010 | Christian Life, Church History, Pastoral Ministry, The Church, Theology
Legalism is an ugly thing to those outside it, but often a beautiful thing to those within it. Legalism is any system whereby the merits of man contribute in any way to his standing with God. For those who have been delivered from the works-righteousness mentality,...
by Mark Farnham | May 27, 2010 | Christian Life, Church History, Culture, The Church
The advent of the internet on a popular level in the mid-1990’s and on a global scale by the turn of the century has had such an all-encompassing effect on the world, that it is virtually impossible anymore to imagine life without it. In the past few years serious...
by Mark Farnham | May 25, 2010 | Christian Life, Missions
American Christians have, for a long time, thought of Christianity primarily through American eyes, often viewing America as the center of the world since the 20th century. As a result, the burden for overseas missions represents only a drop in the bucket of our...
by Mark Farnham | May 24, 2010 | Church History, Historiography
Have you ever read history and wonder, “What in the world were these people thinking?” Have you ever been tempted to question the sanity and rationality of an historical figure? In his essay, “Interpretation, Rationality and Truth” (in Visions of Politics,...
by Mark Farnham | May 21, 2010 | Christian Life, Leadership, Pastoral Ministry
In his book, Rescuing Ambition (Crossway, 2010), Dave Harvey skillfully explains the practice of God to curb and refine our ambitions through the often painful process of waiting on him. Waiting is God’s backhoe in the excavation of our ambitions. Waiting unearths and...
