I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • Attributes of a Healthy Church

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 11, 2011

    I jotted down a couple thoughts during a recent worship service at the local Presbyterian church: Tiny church: you feel alone, like it's you vs. the world. Big church: you worship God in community, gathered, hundreds of voices together. You don't feel like it's "us vs. world". Driving around downtown... [Read More]
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  • Why not “Mainline”?

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 6, 2011

    More than a decade ago, I was part of a church that sent “missionaries” to Scotland to try to show the Presbyterians how to do church, and I went on two such mission trips myself. In the years since, I have come to see that it’s all the rest of... [Read More]
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  • BlogPress iPhone app review

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 22, 2011

    Downloading BlogPress was my last-stitch effort to save my Blogger blog. So much of my online activity revolves around my iPhone that my blog has suffered in recent years, since Blogger doesn’t have a mobile version. I can post drafts via email, but they always end up with funny line... [Read More]
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  • Against Dispensationalism

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 20, 2011

    There’s a whole lot of eschatological fervor out there, with the civil war in Libya, the earthquake in Japan a couple months ago, Harold Camping’s yet-another-failed-prediction of the date and time of Judgment Day, and Obama’s speech on Middle East diplomacy. [Read More]
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  • How to spot a false prophet

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 19, 2011

    In light of the impending Judgment Day, I’d like to point put some things that are stated a bit more explicitly in Scripture than the date of the end of the world, namely, two easy ways to spot a false prophet.1) Anyone who says they know the date of the... [Read More]

  • The Two Kingdoms and the Death of Bin Laden

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 2, 2011

    God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end, hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of them that... [Read More]
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