Free book: The Full Plate Diet

This offer is no longer available.  The book is on Amazon here. Who doesn’t need to eat better and lose a few pounds in the process?  Especially after all those church covered-dish lunches.  The Lifestyle Center of America is giving away 20,000 advance reader copies of The Full Plate Diet.  Hurry, they’re going fast! Here’s [...]

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The Call We Knew Would Come

I received a call from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office at about 9:30 PM tonight.  A very kind investigator told me that my brother had been found dead late this afternoon in the apartment he shared in Atlanta. We knew this call would come one day.  My brother had a sad history of substance [...]

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Free article, journal, video, and book

In the gift economy, information wants to be free.  So, here are the latest freebies I’ve run across that are both free and excellent. The new Neue Quarterly will be out soon, and my article “Remembering Why You Said Yes” is in this issue.  You can read my article for free, compliments of the folks [...]

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Sermon: Criticism – Why Don’t They Like Us Anymore?

Here’s the sermon I’m preaching tomorrow.  It’s the sixth in  the series, “Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces.”  I hope your day is wonderful! Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces #6 — Criticism: Why Don’t They Like Us Anymore? Matthew 10:5-16 5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the [...]

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Interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Part 3

Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor of Rolling Stone, is author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism At The Heart of American Power.  His book about the group best-known for sponsoring the National Prayer Breakfast has gained renewed interest since its hardback publication in 2008. With two of its members confessing to marital infidelity — Senator John [...]

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Interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Part 2

This is Part 2 of my interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. This week, The Family is  #5  in Amazon.com’s sales rankings.  If you’d like to catch up, Part 1 of the interview is here.  My review of The Family is at my blog, [...]

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Interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Part 1

This is part 1 of my exclusive interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family.  Parts 2 and 3 will be posted Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Part 1 by Chuck Warnock Jeff Sharlet is author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism At The Heart of [...]

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How I spent my summer (so far)

In addition to pastoring a small church, we garden. Actually, Debbie does the real gardening, I just dig holes where she tells me to. Here’s a walk from our backdoor to the vegetable garden and beyond. Note the 1-day old bluebirds at the very end of the video. I’m not posting a sermon today because [...]

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Sunday Beer Sales and Bad Public Policy

In their infinite wisdom, our board of supervisors has decided the way out of our county’s financial squeeze (we’re the 2nd poorest county in Virginia) is to allow beer and wine sales on Sundays.  One supervisor commented tonight, “This isn’t about religion, it’s about economics.” I would agree.  I don’t think Christians can make a [...]

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Sermon: Post-Modernism: Why is Truth no longer true?

Here is the sermon I preaching tomorrow.  It’s the 5th in a series of 8 sermons around the theme, Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces.  The first four were Secularism, Pluralism, Nominalism, and Materialism. I hope your Sunday is great! Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces Post-Modernism: Why is Truth No Longer True? John 18:28-40 [...]

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