Good reading from the Free Believers Network http://freebelievers.com/rss-blog http://freebelievers.com/article/the-flabby-body-of-christ-why-is-church-so-dull CHURCH IS boring. I don’t ever recall hopping out of bed on Sunday morning jazzed about the sermon, even when the preacher was good. http://freebelievers.com/article/did-the-father-forsake-jesus-on-the-cross-no For many years I taught the seven sayings of the cross and when I came to the words of Jesus, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" I used the text as evidence that the Father had turned His back on His own Son when Jesus was on the cross. http://freebelievers.com/article/christ-the-center It was a few years ago that I first began realizing that American Christianity does a fine job of polishing its rhetoric to reflect a Christ-centered creed, but its practices are far from resembling Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospels. http://freebelievers.com/article/the-new-law-written-on-our-hearts I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:33b-34 http://freebelievers.com/article/churches-denounce-african-children-as-witches This article will really open your eyes to the dangers of "Spiritual warfare" in many circles. This is heart breaking. http://freebelievers.com/article/mind-control-tool-box This is a great article on mind controlling cults. It's amazing how much this reminds me of ministries I served in. http://freebelievers.com/article/where-have-all-the-christians-gone Christianity is plummeting in America, while the number of non-believers is skyrocketing..... http://freebelievers.com/article/you-might-be-a-fundamentalist-if You'll have a good time reading through this. It's a blast! http://freebelievers.com/article/why-pastors-leave-the-ministry Great statistics provided by the Fuller Institute, George Barna, and Pastoral Care Inc. http://freebelievers.com/article/decerning-the-times I'm not a big Rick Joyner fan and this has a lot of institutional talk in it, but I thought it was an interesting article about the future of the church. Give it a read:)