“And some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved’ ”.
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in demanding from them precisely what they most want to retain for themselves.” — Tom
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Christians and the Law: Answering the Challenge
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
A Further Thought about Screaming Kids
Screaming Kids and the Harvest of Righteousness
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Christians and the Law: Controversy
“And some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved’ ”.
“A man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus ... by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified ... if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.” (Galatians 2:16,21)
Monday, April 07, 2014
God’s Sovereignty, Man’s Responsibility and the Two Witnesses
“… what they disagree about is how prescriptive His management of the universe has to be in order for that to be true. Does He have to mandate the movement of every molecule that twitches? Or is it possible that God allows human beings some measure of freedom of choice and action? How “tight” does sovereignty have to be in order to remain sovereignty?”
Let’s suppose in analyzing the chapter that its words are intended to be taken at face value; that is to say, that when John writes “if anyone would”, it means “if anyone would” (as opposed to something along the lines of “if the sovereign God compels anyone to”).
If we do that, is it possible to see the sovereignty of God on display at the same time as man’s will?
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Tolerating Evil: Moral Relativism and the Slippery Pole to Hell
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Christians and the Law: Why the Confusion?
“And some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved’ ”.
Friday, April 04, 2014
Culture, Politics and Christianity
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Relativism: Facts, Foolishness and Faith
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Tolerance and Relativism
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
On Christians and Hypocrisy
When people say it — and they do — they are often thinking of unscrupulous TV evangelist-types whose greed and hypocrisy have been publicly exposed, or perhaps their own bitter personal experience with a person who claimed to be a follower of Christ but acted in a very un-Christlike way.
It is certainly a great shame when people claim to be followers of the Lord Jesus but live lives of self-centredness and prejudice. Often these people make the matter worse by assuming an air of false piety and loudly condemning those who do not match up to their lofty standards of conduct — standards they themselves do not even follow.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Believers That Sin & A God In Whom Is No Darkness At All
Sunday, March 30, 2014
All Things Dull and Ugly: Monty Python and the Millennium
All creatures short and squat
All things rude and nasty
The Lord God made the lot
Each beastly little squid
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did”
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Debunking Heavenly Mythology IV: Christians Will Spend Eternity In Heaven
Friday, March 28, 2014
Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot and the Infinite-Personal God
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena … Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
To which I say, wait, what?
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Debunking Heavenly Mythology III: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Dear Preacher: On Calvinism and Pride
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Debunking Heavenly Mythology II: Saint Peter and the Pearly Gates
In a previous post I spent a few hundred keystrokes on the things of heaven, trying to point out how very ill-equipped the best of us is to fully comprehend them, even with the aid of the imagery of scripture, since “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”
But our inability to fully apprehend everything about heavenly things is not a license to manufacture any old view of heaven wholesale. The only reliable source of knowledge about things outside current human experience is the word of God itself.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Passing Thoughts on Fred Phelps
The most recent version of this post is available here.