Podcast Episode 1: “Too Used To Jesus”
On this inaugural episode of a revamped Thinking Christian podcast, Tom Gilson describes a problem undermining American Christianity, subtly yet ...
Find Your Authentic Self, or Find an Authentic View of God?
Everyone's in a rush to find their "authentic self." We're going about it the wrong way, though. We find our ...
Pastors’ Equipping Series: Sample Sermon on Christian Exclusivism vs. Pluralism — Christmas Themed!
Christians aren't supposed to say we have the one truth, right? So goes the opinion around our culture, anyway. We're ...
Pastors’ Equipping Series: Sample Sermon on the Faith-Science Challenge (Special Focus on the Virgin Birth)
Faith vs. Science: It feels like David approaching Goliath, with no sling and no stones. Or at least, that's the ...
Apologists and Pastors, Here’s How We Can Finally Work Together (And We’d Better Get To It!)
I met a pastor from my home town at a conference a couple years ago, actually a pastors' pastor, who ...
Pastor, Your Job Is About Cross-Cultural Missions Now. Could You Use Some Help?
Listen to the Thinking Christian podcast on this topic! Dorothy's line was prescient: “Toto, I have a feeling we're not ...
Heat to Light: Our Lost Moral High Ground, and How to Begin Reclaiming It
Remember when Christianity held the moral high ground? Maybe not. Depends on how long you've been around. It sure isn't ...
Moving From Heat to Light: Worldviews in Conflict
(You can listen to this blog post here.) Cultural conflict doesn’t come from just nowhere. Ours has been building for ...
Heat to Light 2: Grace and Truth
(This post accompanies my latest podcast, Episode 2-2, Grace and Truth in Heat-to-Light Conversations.) I'm continuing today with my extended ...
From Heat to Light: Transforming the Heat of Cultural Controversy Into the Light of Spiritual Growth
We're in a new season in American Christianity, with unprecedented heat falling upon believers. With it I'm now announcing a ...