by John D. Pierce | Aug 3, 2021 | Opinion
The complimentary hotel breakfast featured good coffee, fluffy scrambled eggs and a rarity — rightly textured and properly seasoned grits. And, despite persistent rains, a skyline view was making an early morning appearance. Yet, one of the two televisions was tuned...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 27, 2021 | Opinion
Revivalism impacted the religious upbringing and inherited faith of many of us in ways we likely didn’t realize. The doctrine, terminology and formulated methods of emotion-driven evangelical evangelism grew out of this frontier phenomenon. Ultimately, the seasonal,...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 20, 2021 | Jesus Worldview Initiative, Opinion
I’ve grown tired of those who claim to be more patriotic than the rest of us while working to destroy democracy – or more Christian while largely ignoring everything Jesus said and did. Faithfulness takes more than laying claims to titles, and then redefining and...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 13, 2021 | Opinion
To borrow a good line from Paul, writing to early Christians who struggled with their identity and relationships, “Don’t think of yourself more highly than you should” (Romans 12:3). Modern psychologists did not invent the idea of decentering oneself; it is the...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 22, 2021 | Jesus Worldview Initiative, Opinion
What really holds up churches and keeps them together? Do we dare to find out? Many have long affirmed and loudly proclaimed their supportive structure as: “The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ, our Lord.” Yet, our modern expressions of congregational life...
