Category Archives: Institutional Church

How the American Experience enabled the development of World Christianity

Posted on June 17, 2009 by PaulVK

Mark Noll’s recent book “The New Shape of World Christianity” is a “must read” for anyone doing North American urban missiology where increasingly the urban church context is impacted by what is happening throughout the world. The thesis of this … Continue reading →

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Unity of Sanctification and Justification in Preaching

Posted on June 16, 2009 by PaulVK

This is a repost from October 2008 Again, a lot of this stuff I have picked up from Tim Keller and worked it over in my head. I’ve done so much Keller stuff I actually got a letter at church … Continue reading →

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Evangelicals as Mormons-lite

Posted on June 12, 2009 by PaulVK

Zondervan Academic posted the last installment of their teasers on a new book out on the LDS use of the book of Mormon. The experience I had reading it was similar to what I had reading the previous installments. The … Continue reading →

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Mormonism and American Evangelicalism

Posted on June 11, 2009 by PaulVK

Zondervan academic is plugging a new book about the book of Mormon and I’ve been reading the daily released blog outlays. They’ve been fascinating. I’m also reading Mark Noll’s excellent book on the relationship between the development of 19th century … Continue reading →

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Hear the Lion, See the Lamb

Posted on May 29, 2009 by PaulVK

Found this in doing my Revelation study with our Adult Sunday School class at Living Stones. There are a lot of parallels between Revelation chapter 5 and chapter 7. One of the coolest is hearing and seeing. In chapter 5 … Continue reading →

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Leadership on Alchohol

Posted on May 5, 2009 by PaulVK

Interesting piece in Leadership Journal on the new fight among evangelicals over alcohol. What is more dangerous, the enticing substance you wish to control through quarantine or the enticing substance which is your faith in the power of quarantine? A … Continue reading →

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Newspapers, Institutional Church, Engadget

Posted on April 19, 2009 by PaulVK

I’m following the news of the imploding newspaper business and often reflecting on how it correlates with the institutional church. On the pieces I read there is some discussion as to how much of this has been newspapers taking on … Continue reading →

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Changing Focus on church mission statements

Posted on April 8, 2009 by PaulVK

Repost from Oct 23, 2006 (I’ll start reposting old content selectively) Individual/personal transformational mission statements vs. city/community/world transformational mission statements. I don’t know if churches had mission statements before the seeker movement. The Seeker movement employed business tools in churches … Continue reading →

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