Radio Free Tulsa
The written and audio musings of a former idealist turned curmudgeon. Opinionated about all things theological and missiological. Harmless if not stirred up.
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Dr. Livingstone, I am an answer to your prayer. (opens the original)
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After 16 years of resident ministry in Africa, I was called to serve as Africa Director of Faith Comes By Hearing, and the role required frequent travel. At that time, when flying British Airways, London became a customary point of transfer on the way to one or another of the African nations. On each such occasion I followed a fixed discipline. I took the Underground to Westminster and made my way to the Abbey, where the body of David Livingstone lies in the center of the Nave and there I would
I Never Knew You! (opens the original)
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“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”Some texts in Scripture, if we are honest, we would rather find were not there, and Matthew 7:21–23 is, I
What Is The Price of a Prophecy? (opens the original)
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Micah 3:5 (ESV)“Thus says the Lord concerning the prophetswho lead my people astray,who cry ‘Peace’when they have something to eat,but declare war against himwho puts nothing into their mouths.”Early in my pastoral life, I served a congregation blessed with many bright, open-hearted young people. It was the 1970s, and the Charismatic renewal was in full swing. In those days, I encountered a young woman whose heart had become deeply attached to the counsel of a self-proclaimed “prophetess” from a
Have We Gone Bankrupt? (opens the original)
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Have We Gone Bankrupt?Forty years ago, a man named Walter Wink wrote something that has never quite let go of me:Thanks for reading Radio Free Tulsa! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<div class="fake-butto
I Myself Will Lift Up Your Skirts Over Your Face-God (opens the original)
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Karen Swallow Prior, an investigative journalist writing in the August 28 Roys Report, observes that the church has what she calls a Cambridge problem. She opens her piece with words worth repeating:“Fake testimony. Inflated credentials. Fabricated personal history. Embellished resume. Incompetent scholarship. Blatant, repeated and rampant plagiarism.I’m not talking about Cambridge University and the recent tragedy involving Jason Arday, a professor who was accused of all these things, subsequen
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