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Time Magazine noticed us
everybody is buzzing about number 3 on Time Magazine’s Top Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now. here, let them explain: Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin’s 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism’s buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism’s … Continue reading
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Tagged al mohler, Between Two Worlds, calvinism, john calvin, John Piper, justin taylor, mark driscoll, predestination, reformed theology
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contending and contextualizing
The church must both contend for truth and must contextualize truth to be effective in evangelism. Compare II Timothy 1:14 to I Corinthians 9:22. Hunter Beaumont’s diagnosis of the current evangelical moment is that we are over-contextualizing and under-contending: But … Continue reading
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Tagged contextualization, persuasion, resurgence blog, the gospel, truth
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heart or head
Tim Chester is advocating that Christians live in such a way that others want to believe the Gospel while at the same time engaging their intellectual questions. what do you think? Why don’t people believe the gospel? It often looks … Continue reading
christian themes in Science Fiction
Kathryn Jean Lopez pointed yesterday to this interesting City Journal article about religious themes in science fiction movies. here is a small excerpt, but go read the rest, especially if you like science fiction at all. What did happen? Not … Continue reading
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Tagged christian themes, culture, darth vader, luke skywalker, political themes, pop culture, science fiction, star trek, star wars, superman returns
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Saturday evening
Yesterday evening we went to the H.E.L.P. Launch party held at the Sodade Coffe house. It was fun and we were able to see some folks from Vista that we haven’t seen in a while. Good music too. first up … Continue reading
philosophers go at each other
and there is a play by play. very interesting stuff. Plantinga is the christian and Dennett is the militant atheist. Much more at the link. 3:52 pm – I have just realized that Dennett is taking far too long. The … Continue reading
words matter
Vision Navigator posted a video with this introduction: Ran across this short movie called Validation…funny, intriguing, touching, and a great story that illustrates the power of words, and the fundamental human need for recognition and affirmation. here it is, what … Continue reading
James MacDonald's blog
James MacDonald is the senior pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago. He is currently in California undergoing radiation treatments for prostate cancer, but he is still updating his blog. he recently did a video post on songs that Harvest … Continue reading
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Tagged brian mclaren, emerging church, harvest bible chapel, james macdonald, walk in the word
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What "reformed" means to Kevin DeYoung
Kevin DeYoung has written about what it means to him to be called “reformed”. The whole post is very good and you should read it, but I especially liked these two paragraphs. I delight in the glory of God and … Continue reading
generations
baptist 21 is publishing a series of articles by a guest poster, Steven A. McKinion, who is a theology professor at Southeastern Seminary. Professor McKinion is describing the heirs of the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. He talks … Continue reading
Interview with Dinesh D'Souza
I first became acquainted with the work of Dinesh D’Souza back in law school when I read Illiberal Education. It was both interesting and eye opening in its willingness to take on directly the sacred cows of the left wing … Continue reading
legislating morality
Kevin DeYoung has a post up on his blog about why he believes it is not only permissible but necessary to legislate morality in the case of abortion. First he makes the point that I was making to Jesurgislac in … Continue reading
missing the moment
The third of the reactions posted by Timmy Brister that I found particularly interesting is a longer read that gets to the heart of why I think this fight matters and why it is even occurring. An article at Baptist … Continue reading
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Tagged baptist twenty one, generational warfare, mark driscoll, relevance, unnecessary fussing
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friends ride in
Timmy Brister has posted a round up of reactions to the Baptist Press article on Mark Driscoll. I found three of them to be particularly interesting. First, Ed Stetzer writes that Friday is for Friends and he says, in part: … Continue reading
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Tagged baptist press, charity, ed stetzer, friends, friendship, grace, jd greear, love, mark driscoll, repentance
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hard to face but real
Ok, there is an event that occurred that has to be faced even though it is horrible. Benjamin linked to the news story in his comment to this post. The quick summary is that a woman went to have an … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, baby, born alive infant protection act, botched abortion, fetus, vitamin z
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Facebook's fifth birthday
Facebook turns five and Al Mohler has thoughts about it and social networking in general. By the way, Dr. Mohler is one of my facebook friends. Dr. Mohler has 8 suggestions for “safeguarding the social networking experience.” 1. Never allow … Continue reading
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Tagged dr. mohler, facebook, my space, safeguards, social networking
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Love on a Texas football field
I heard about this when it happened, but now courtesy of Jeff Myers, I have seen the video. Very moving. For some reason I can’t get flash video to embed here. Please go watch it over at Jeff’s place. UPDATE: … Continue reading
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McDonald's cappucino and football
Kevin DeYoung reminds us that Jesus came for Grimace and Hamburglar too with this video: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg87E1tjTOE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Kevin adds: I mention all of this because so much that passes for spirituality these days is nothing more than middle class, 20something coffee … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, culture, Kevin DeYoung, macdonalds, starbucks
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willing to be hated?
Randy Alcorn asks if you are willing to be hated for what you believe. Here are some excerpts, but you have to go read the rest. especially the quote from D.L. Moody. I have heard it before, but it is … Continue reading
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Tagged challies, disciple, follower, gospel, hated, offensiveness, randy alcorn, teacher
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Making it plausible or unthinkable
Al Mohler has completed posting a six part series on abortion which is the edited transcript of the sermon he gave on Sanctity of Life Sunday. excellent message excellently presented. here are the links to the parts for some weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, al mohler, sanctity of life, the gospel
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Moralistic therapeutic deism
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism–the New American Religion. If that isn’t a fair name for our prevailing cultural belief system, then I don’t know what is. this is an article from 2005 that I just found courtesy of Chris Turner who I … Continue reading
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Tagged al mohler, chris turner, lifeway, moralistic therapeutic deism, steve mccoy
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