Archive for August, 2005
Edwards on the Use of Scripture
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. If applause be your end, you will not be so likely to be led to the knowledge of the truth, but [...]
Coffee With A Friend
Monday, August 29th, 2005Last week I had the privilege of meeting Steve McCoy for coffee and a few hours of fellowship. I visit his website Reformissionary often and usually find great stuff and great discussion. What a neat young man! Guys like him strengthen my hope for the future of American Evangelicalism. Steve is a young pastor of [...]
Faith in The Ladykillers and The Truman Show
Saturday, August 27th, 2005Last year I took Cultural Hermeneutics with Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer. It was a rather mind expanding class. For my term paper, I wrote on how faith fairs in two movies, The Ladykillers and The Truman show. I reread that paper this weekend in preparation for forwarding it to a friend I spoke with this summer. [...]
My Problem with the NPP
Thursday, August 25th, 2005Part 1 in a series. So what is up with the NPP? A few years ago a man named EP Saunders wrote a book about Second Temple Judaism. That kind of kicked off the whole thing and got a bunch of other books rolling. James DG Dunn wrote on the same kind of thing as [...]
The Sad Part
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005In another context I came across the part of the Covenant Theology that saddens me. I didn’t realize that it unsettled me till I saw it all lumped together: New Perspectiveon Paul Auburn Ave Theology/Federal Vision Paedocommunion Theonomy Extensive use of the Regulative Principle of Worship (mainly Psalms only in worship and no musical instruments) [...]
Ray Boltz Explained
Thursday, August 4th, 2005My Ray Boltz quip in the previous post probably bears some explaining. Ray’s song “Thank You” talks about a person going to heaven and learning about the impact of the little things s/he did. Unfortunately, it comes across in such a way as to make it sound like heaven is about us. People line up [...]
I Have Returned
Thursday, August 4th, 2005Just back from two weeks in a “creative access” country. The trip went well and involved two different parts; evangelism and training. The city we did evangelism in had probably never seen 10 white faces at the same time before. The ‘soil’ was hard and I think what we mostly accomplished was to ‘break up’ [...]