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Alex Early
July 13, 2020: Alex Early: Key Life: Trinity: Person Not Parts
Someone told me that 99% of people in this world are stupid. Luckily I'm part of the
other 5%. 😉
other 5%. 😉
Tanya Eavenson
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When you drive by a cemetary and someone says "People are dying to get in there", I think it now legal to punch them...
Clint Echols [First Baptist Church of Zeeland, Michigan]
Mar 16, 2015: Holland Sentinel: First Baptist Church of Zeeland pastor Clint Echols says words in sermon were twisted against him
Pastor Clint Echols clarified himself to Zeeland City Council Monday night during a public comment session after much consternation has befallen him, his family and his church about a sermon he says has been twisted against him.
Pastor Clint Echols clarified himself to Zeeland City Council Monday night during a public comment session after much consternation has befallen him, his family and his church about a sermon he says has been twisted against him.
Mar 15, 2015: Christian Examiner: Michigan church, pastor in crossfire of gay nature versus nuture debate
First Baptist Church in Zeeland, Michigan, Pastor Clint Echols told the Zeeland City Counsel in a March 16 public comment session that media took his message out of context and was further distorted by the misleading acts of former church member, Daniel VanderLey who attended FBCZ 15 years ago.
First Baptist Church in Zeeland, Michigan, Pastor Clint Echols told the Zeeland City Counsel in a March 16 public comment session that media took his message out of context and was further distorted by the misleading acts of former church member, Daniel VanderLey who attended FBCZ 15 years ago.
Mar 15, 2015: Raw Story: Michigan pastor: Being gay is an ‘abomination’ like being an ‘axe murderer’
During a sermon earlier this month, Clint Echols, pastor of First Baptist Church in Zeeland, pointed out that the Bible said that God considered homosexuality to be an “abomination.”
During a sermon earlier this month, Clint Echols, pastor of First Baptist Church in Zeeland, pointed out that the Bible said that God considered homosexuality to be an “abomination.”
I'm taking Ozzy Osbourne as a second language
Kevin Eckstrom
June 18, 2020: Christian Headlines: Financially Hit by COVID-19, Washington National Cathedral Lays Off Staff
The cathedral’s doors have been closed since March 12, preventing tourists and worshippers from visiting during what is usually the 113-year-old neo-Gothic landmark’s busiest time of year. In an email to Religion News Service, Chief Communications Officer Kevin Eckstrom said that while donor support has remained strong despite holding only online services, the cathedral has been unable to rent its buildings and grounds for events, which normally helps underwrite operations.
The cathedral’s doors have been closed since March 12, preventing tourists and worshippers from visiting during what is usually the 113-year-old neo-Gothic landmark’s busiest time of year. In an email to Religion News Service, Chief Communications Officer Kevin Eckstrom said that while donor support has remained strong despite holding only online services, the cathedral has been unable to rent its buildings and grounds for events, which normally helps underwrite operations.
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Kevin Eckstrom joined the RNS staff in February, 2000 and became editor-in-chief in 2006. Prior to coming to RNS, he worked as religion editor at the Stuart/Port St. Lucie News in Florida. He was the winner of the 2000 Cassels Award for small newspapers from the Religion Newswriters Association. Under his leadership, RNS was named Best Wire Service by the Associated Church Press for six of the past eight years.
Eckstrom holds a M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from The George Washington University. Eckstrom was the president of the Religion Newswriters Association from 2007-2009 and was the inaugural Dewitt Wallace Fellow in Islamic Studies at Duke University in 2009. In 2014, he was awarded a Senior Journalist Seminar fellowship in Islam from the East-West Center. |
Mar 23, 2015: Kevin Eckstrom: Religion News Service: Bob Jones III apologizes for stone-the-gays remarks
Mar 4, 2015: Kevin Eckstrom: Religion News Service: Breakaway Episcopalians win Texas church property fight
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First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Mika Edmondson
July 27, 2020: Eternal Perspectives: Black Lives Do Matter, But the BLM Organization Opposes Christian Values: So What Should We Do?
While never feeling guilty for the skin color God gave you, listen carefully to voices who express a pain you would understand if you’d been born and lived life in their skin. Pastor Mika Edmondson wrote something recently that I found heartbreaking. Rather than criticizing it because it falls outside of our own personal experiences, let it sink in as a tragic but deeply heartfelt perception shared by countless black Americans, including lovers of Jesus:
My wife has to beg me (a grown 37-year-old man) not to go out to Walmart at night, not because she’s afraid of the criminal element, but because she’s afraid of the police element. Because she knows that when the police see me, they aren’t going to see Mika Edmondson, pastor of New City Fellowship Presbyterian church. When they see me, they aren’t going to see Mika Edmondson, PhD in systematic theology. When they see me, all they’re going to see is a black man out late at night.
While never feeling guilty for the skin color God gave you, listen carefully to voices who express a pain you would understand if you’d been born and lived life in their skin. Pastor Mika Edmondson wrote something recently that I found heartbreaking. Rather than criticizing it because it falls outside of our own personal experiences, let it sink in as a tragic but deeply heartfelt perception shared by countless black Americans, including lovers of Jesus:
My wife has to beg me (a grown 37-year-old man) not to go out to Walmart at night, not because she’s afraid of the criminal element, but because she’s afraid of the police element. Because she knows that when the police see me, they aren’t going to see Mika Edmondson, pastor of New City Fellowship Presbyterian church. When they see me, they aren’t going to see Mika Edmondson, PhD in systematic theology. When they see me, all they’re going to see is a black man out late at night.
June 24, 2016: Mika Edmondson: Gospel Coalition: Is Black Lives Matter the New Civil Rights Movement?
It's turns out that EVERYONE wasn't kung-fu fighting.
One guy was in the can the WHOLE time and missed everything.😲
One guy was in the can the WHOLE time and missed everything.😲
Paul Ellis
About Dr. Paul Ellis
I used to be a pastor. For 10 years I led a multicultural church in Hong Kong while working as a over-achieving business school professor. I worked six days a week teaching and supervising PhD students and I preached on Sundays. It was an unsustainable lifestyle and eventually I crashed and burned. I was forced to rest, and in that place of inactivity and inability, I learned a few things about grace. I began to write and Escape to Reality (E2R) was the result. Telling people about the grace of a good God is now my full-time occupation, and I couldn’t be happier. Everything else was training; this is what I was born to do. --Escape to reality
- C Jay Engel -
Only resort to violence if necessary.... like if you get the wrong pizza toppings.😎
Mike Erre
Jan 4, 2016: Youtube: Doubts, Frustrations, God, & The Church - JP Moreland and Mike Errie
An interview with J. P. Moreland and Mike Erre.
An interview with J. P. Moreland and Mike Erre.
Jan 15, 2013: Queerty: CA Evangelical Minister Mike Erre Says He’s “Sorry” To Gay Community
Mike Erre, a rising star in Evangelical circles, is sorry his movement has been so nasty toward gay people.
Mike Erre, a rising star in Evangelical circles, is sorry his movement has been so nasty toward gay people.
"Don't buy cheap hashbrowns because they taste like cheap hashbrowns." --Things I tell myself and then ignore
Christopher Esget
June 19, 2020: Reporter: Racism and the church: A time to listen
One of my parishioners recently asked, “How is this all going to end?” He meant the coronavirus, the riots in the street. … But we know how this is going to end. It’s going to end in resurrection, and in a world where there is justice. Things may get very difficult. But the church continues because we know who Jesus is — that He is Lord, that He is coming again to judge the living and the dead, that there will be a day of resurrection and justice. So don’t be afraid. Don’t worry. We know how it ends.
One of my parishioners recently asked, “How is this all going to end?” He meant the coronavirus, the riots in the street. … But we know how this is going to end. It’s going to end in resurrection, and in a world where there is justice. Things may get very difficult. But the church continues because we know who Jesus is — that He is Lord, that He is coming again to judge the living and the dead, that there will be a day of resurrection and justice. So don’t be afraid. Don’t worry. We know how it ends.
The Reverend Christopher S. Esget has served as Immanuel's Pastor since 2001. He is married to Kassie, and they have one son, James. Before coming to Immanuel, Pastor Esget served at Bethel Lutheran Church, DuQuoin, IL, where he was ordained in 1998. He attended Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, IN) where he earned the Master of Divinity degree (1997) and the Master of Sacred Theology degree (2005). His STM thesis was a comparison of the doctrine of original sin in Patristic and contemporary Eastern Orthodox theology.
Pastor Esget currently serves on the Missouri Synod's Sanctity of Human Life commission and is the District Life Coordinator for the Southeastern District of the LCMS. He has presented papers at Concordia Theological Seminary's Good Shepherd Institute, the Concordia Catechetical Academy's annual symposium, the Rocky Mountain District's convocation on woship, the Higher Things youth organization, the St. Michael Liturgical Conference, the LCMS Institute on Liturgy, Preaching, and Church Music, and the Infertility Ethics Symposium at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He has served as chaplain/worship leader for the LCMS Life Conferences, Lutherans for Life annual March for Life events, Higher Things, and the LCMS Worship institute. His sermons and exegetical work have been published in several periodicals. He is a 2015 Washington Fellow of the National Review Institute. Born and raised near Minneapolis, MN, Pastor Esget pursued his love of music with classical piano studies at Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota, acquiring his undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude) from the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) in 1993. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and playing the piano.
Pastor Esget currently serves on the Missouri Synod's Sanctity of Human Life commission and is the District Life Coordinator for the Southeastern District of the LCMS. He has presented papers at Concordia Theological Seminary's Good Shepherd Institute, the Concordia Catechetical Academy's annual symposium, the Rocky Mountain District's convocation on woship, the Higher Things youth organization, the St. Michael Liturgical Conference, the LCMS Institute on Liturgy, Preaching, and Church Music, and the Infertility Ethics Symposium at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He has served as chaplain/worship leader for the LCMS Life Conferences, Lutherans for Life annual March for Life events, Higher Things, and the LCMS Worship institute. His sermons and exegetical work have been published in several periodicals. He is a 2015 Washington Fellow of the National Review Institute. Born and raised near Minneapolis, MN, Pastor Esget pursued his love of music with classical piano studies at Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota, acquiring his undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude) from the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) in 1993. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and playing the piano.
