Articles for tag: Louis Giglio

August 1, 2010

Christian Standard

I Was the Big, Dead Tree

By Tim Harlow When I was a youth pastor, one of my favorite stories to reenact at church camp was from 1 Kings 18 when Elijah and the priests of Baal had a god-duel. The trick was to have someone with a roll of toilet paper soaked in lighter fluid in a nearby tree. At the right moment, he would light the toilet paper and let it slide down a wire into the altar””it was a great effect! I”m sure the real thing was even better. I can”t imagine how great Elijah must have felt knowing he was on the

April 29, 2007

Christian Standard

Campus Ministry: Reaching New England

By Tim Hawkins “I know Catholic, Baptist, and Lutheran, but what is just Christian?” The professor, teaching a course in public policy at Harvard, stumbled through an explanation, “Well, that is a group of churches like the Disciples of Christ and others that have churches mostly in Indiana and Kentucky.” Listening to this conversation just a few weeks ago made me realize the difficulty others have in putting the Christian church piece into their puzzle of modern denominations in the United States. While the professor”s characterization of the Christian churches seems oversimplified, the people of New England would agree. Dan

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