Starving Doctrine
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Teaching is taken here to mean profitable instruction, which tends to edification… This is the true use of Christ’s word. As, however, doctrine is sometimes in itself cold, and, as one says, when it is simply shown what is right, virtue is praised and left to starve, he adds at the same time admonition, which [...]
Forgive Us as We Forgive Others
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. – Colossians 2:13 (ESV) Reviewing my exegetical notes on this verse, here’s what I found I’d written: Theologically, it is significant that we are called to forgive even as [...]
To: The Choir
Saturday, January 12th, 2008I just said this in another context, but I thought it was worth quoting myself. One of the problems with preaching to the choir is that you can say some things about non-choir members that might not be exactly right but all you’ll hear from the choir is “Amen!” John Piper cites an example.
On Mission in Suburbia
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007We have a monumental challenge if we are going to contextualize the gospel and live as missional communities of faith throughout suburban America. We cannot flee. We cannot get out of here. This is where we live. This is where God has called us. And this “God-forsaken place†that we have been called to desperately [...]
Let Your Adornment…
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. – Luke 16:18 If you do a study of divorce in the New Testament, but especially in the Gospels, you’ll soon notice that what Jesus said about it is not consistently reported. In [...]
Biblical Pragmatism?
Monday, January 15th, 2007We Westerners are pragmatic people. We go with what works. Hollywood does films of successful television program, and video games and sequels of successful movies , our infomercials focus on testimonials, books on business cite success stories of companies who’ve used their model, and on and on. This make sense. Why do what hasn’t worked [...]
This Year
Monday, January 1st, 2007Welcome to 2007! Yesterday I finished my “umteenth” pass through the Robert Murray M’Cheyne Bible reading schedule. I think it is a great idea to read through the Bible in a year and to do it more than once. In the past, I have used the One Year Bible and that works well too. Or [...]
Webb Spectrum
Friday, December 8th, 2006FreeDerekWebb ends today. If you don’t have Mockingbird, today is your last chance to get it for free. I recommend it. NPR recently featured Derek Webb. One of the things they said about him was “Chris Tomlin whose been at the number one spot on the Christian charts for eleven weeks running. On the other [...]
Before A Watching World
Saturday, November 4th, 2006The above is a screen shot from Google News that really struck me. There are two responses that I’ve read so far that I believe are the most appropriate. Mark Driscoll‘s1 and doc misterio‘s. Both men seem to be approaching the issue with these scriptures in mind: For I delight in the law of God, [...]
“Real” Christians
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Do you remember a few years ago when Jim Bowers and his family were shot down in Peru? They were missionaries and the government mistook their aircraft for drug runners. Jim’s wife and infant daughter were killed and the pilot was injured. At the funeral service, Jim announced that he and his surviving son would [...]
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