Articles for tag: Calvin College

July 24, 2015

We asked 35 Christian leaders, “Who is the influencer with the biggest impact on your life and ministry?” Most of these leaders listed severalÂ influential thinkers, writers, innovators, and leaders more of us should get to know. This response is fromÂ Michael Plank, executive director of worship and discipleship, Spring Road Christian Church, Lanett, Alabama. ________ Dr. Richard Averbeck, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is also the director of the Spiritual Formation Forum. Building on the amazing work of Dallas Willard in the field of discipleship, Averbeck and his forum of scholars in this field

July 23, 2008

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Church Leadership Preaching

Spontaneous Combustion and the Weekly Grind

By Mark A. Taylor It”s easy to take for granted the creativity of others, especially those who must produce content on a schedule. Preachers, for example, stand to speak every week, some of them several times every week. Teachers fill class periods, sometimes with the overflow of their study, some of them by reading just ahead of their students in the textbook. Newspaper columnists and magazine writers must achieve a specific word count on deadline. Many who benefit from such output think it comes easily. But Rob Bell, speaking this April at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin

June 25, 2008

Christian Standard

Christian Living

What Part of Speech Should “˜Christian” Be?

By Mark A. Taylor What does it mean to write a Christian novel? To do Christian service? To add one”s name to a directory of Christian businesses? Must a work of art or some other endeavor be called Christian to be Christian? And does that mean what we don”t call Christian, isn”t? Lynn Gardner and the writers he quotes this week assert that everything the Christian does should be for the glory of God. (Read “Wholehearted Christians.”) They would surely agree with Rob Bell who told an audience in April he believes Christian “is a bit dodgy as an adjective.