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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Fulfilling or Destroying
Most Christians who
have read Romans or Galatians understand that we are not under law but under grace.
However, because the teaching of the Lord Jesus is traditionally bundled with our
New Testament, some believers have difficulty recognizing that things like the
Sermon on the Mount are really addressed to people living under and seeking to
obey the rules of the Old Covenant.
Confusion on this
subject leads to inconsistent interpretation and maybe even inconsistent
living. It’s worth a careful and prayerful look.
Friday, July 17, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Dispensing With Dispensations
This post will not
help you much.
If, on the other hand,
you are keen on understanding the whys and wherefores in scripture, being able
to make distinctions in the way God has behaved towards mankind throughout
history has helped me tremendously, and has made a lot of things clear that
would otherwise be terribly foggy. I’ll give you a very real-life example of
that tomorrow.
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Recommend-a-blog (10)
William Lane Craig has one of the better-reasoned takes I have come across on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that has
redefined marriage.
Like Roe
v. Wade, this is a seismic event for the U.S. and the consequences for
Christians who seek to follow scripture will be significant. Craig’s analysis
and advice to believers is eminently more sensible than David Brooks’ column in
last week’s New York Times, which may
as well have been entitled “Resistance is Futile”. (My thoughts on Brooks’ advice may be found here.)
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Thursday, July 09, 2015
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Tuesday, July 07, 2015
Culture War and Surrender
Someone recently
recommended this David Brooks column in the New
York Times as the “correct true Christian response” to the ongoing culture
war.
For those unfamiliar
with the name, Wikipedia refers to Brooks as a “non-observant” Jew and
“conservative political and cultural commentator” — in other words, not
exactly a leading spokesman for the Christian faith. Having read his op-eds on
occasion, I was pretty sure what I’d be in for.
Still, my morbid curiosity
won out, as it often does. Brooks starts with the obvious: the decline of
Christianity in the United States, the decreasing percentage of the electorate
made up of evangelical voters, millennial disinterest in institutional
religion, etc., etc.
Short version: “Christians,
you’re losing”.
Monday, July 06, 2015
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Saturday, July 04, 2015
A Hill to Die On
Kidding, of course. I know full well that
the social justice grievance mongers currently monopolizing the media with their
view of the ideal society are not the fulfillment of New Testament prophecy.
You know the prophecy I mean. It’s made its way into popular culture.
Friday, July 03, 2015
Thursday, July 02, 2015
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Inbox: Cultural Shenanigans
The role of women in the church is one of those topics that I’ve spent little time examining in this forum for various personal reasons.
But you may remember that despite my general enthusiasm expressed a few weeks back for Frank Viola’s “reimagination” of the church in all its various aspects, I found myself unable to get on board with all his views in the area of church authority and decision-making, and also expressed concerns about what I suspected might be Viola’s view of the role of women in the church (though in the pages of Reimagining Church, he never quite spells it out).
Other than that, I love much of what he has to say.
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