Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.
His latest book, Who Will Rule the Coming ‘Gods’?, offers groundbreaking spiritual insight into emerging AI technologies.
Jesus transforms everything He touches, and the continuation of that touch is to be through the New Testament church that takes itself seriously as the body of Christ with vision for its locale and the world.
We abandoned the quest for church growth, and focused instead on church lifestyle, based on Jesus’s model. Soon we were discovering that as we seek Jesus’s style, “growth happens.”
Truly, it’s time to listen to the Lord, recognizing the hope that is in Him, including the way out of the spiritual, social, and cultural “Five-K Zone” where chaos squeezes hard.
Here are push-backs against chaos and desolation that can drive out chaos and provide powerful push-back in a world whose boundaries are under constant assault.
Christ’s followers are not to contribute to the chaos of society by being dismissive of the sorrows humans bring upon themselves and others.
Eden was a paradise not only because of its physical boundaries, but the spiritual, moral, institutional, territorial, and social as well.
Ever since the assault on and the collapse of the gates of Eden, chaos presses in on the walls and gates of borderlands, and, like Eden, when the boundaries cave, chaos surges through.
How strange for a politician who depends on the conservative Christian vote to ridicule an opponent as “sanctimonious.” This is no time to assault the character and personhood of someone who may be needed later to help win the war.
This is the push-back that we need in this most dangerous season when strife and chaos storm the gates, and only the churches can provide it.
When was the United States of America a godly nation?
America cannot be great again by God’s standards until it has become godly again in its core worldview and values.
Rome and its many movements are long-gone, but the Church still stands.
The greatest mission of the remnant Church is to speak into this world, not some rhetorical masterpiece we have contrived, but what the Master has given us in the Bible.
And so young Princess Elizabeth, though heir to the throne, volunteered for military service in the Second World War, and worked in the maintenance of military vehicles. The woman who had the hefty crown placed on her head also knew how to change oil, repair a broken fanbelt, and get the dirt from under her fingernails.
One morning you will awaken, slide out of bed, shuffle into your bathroom, look in the mirror, and it will shout: “You are getting old!” But there’s a way to stay young.
Pastors are needed in the “gates” more than ever because most of the burning issues of our times deal with the concerns they seek to address.
Though I am old in years, the fire lit in me by people like these still burns. Where I have done well, it is through their examples and teaching. Where I have missed the mark, I have no one to blame but myself.
Don’t assume that you are beyond temptation. Don’t set your eyes on those who have fallen … but do watch those who have fallen, repented, and gotten back in the race.
God did not sanction the choice by some of “whiteness” and segregation in Birmingham in 1963, and He does not now sanction “choice” of killing a baby on demand in its mother’s womb.
We must not let the center be lost or the future will suffer even worse destructive craziness than our contemporary moment.
