by Mark Farnham | Sep 28, 2011 | Ethics, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching
Demonizing opponents is (unfortunately) a common practice in churches where the leadership is making sweeping changes that are opposed by some in the congregation. Those who oppose the changes, the pastor tells the congregation, are just like the Pharisees in...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 26, 2011 | Theology
The task of theology in a decentered age is not easy, but theology never was. The crusader who nostalgically quests for the golden age of Christendom is in fact a deserter from the present conflict… Perhaps all the challenges to contemporary theology derive, in...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 22, 2011 | Church History
To those who are afraid and have already been terrified by the burden of their sins, Christ the saviour and the gift should be announced, not Christ the example and the lawgiver. But to those who are smug and stubborn the example of Christ should be set forth,...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 20, 2011 | Culture, Leadership, The Church
I was sure that the long-standing practice by evangelicals and fundamentalists alike of judging success by numerical results had died a long overdue death in the 1990’s. My seminary education had instilled in me the commitment to judging my ministry as a pastor...
by Mark Farnham | Sep 19, 2011 | Apologetics
It is true that this story of man’s fall is cast away as a relic of a mythological age by the average student of philosophy. But surely this is unjust. The question is not one merely of the historicity of the book of Genesis. It is that, but it is also more...
