Pastor Ponderings

I have many close pastor friends in the KC area I healthy relations with (which caused my motivation for Gospel Crier another story).  We have built some great friendship, and often talk about the plights and trends we see happening in evangelicalism at a large scale, and in our churches to a small scale.
Two issues that we have discussed in recent years, have been, I think appropriately written in recent columns.  One is an article about some of the warnings to homeschool parents written by a homeschool parent and posted by a homeschool parent.  It articulates well some of the thoughts that many pastors have expressed to me.  It is a good article for all parents to seriously consider.

Another issue that many pastors share with me is the Christian celebrities (that in some cases are non-scholars) we see in the church today.  Many of my pastor friends who are Reformed are concerned about brands of Reformed theology that seem more deformed than anything.  One extreme is a Calvinism where people are mad about something all the time.  This is one of the things I tell people, “I am a Calvinist, I’m just not mad about it.”  Yet there is another extreme that is emerging that is well written in this article that was sent me by a beloved pastor friend