Driving around town, it’s not uncommon to finds that mimic popular slogans such as “Got Jesus”. Sometimes they seem kind of cute or clever. But after I consider them a bit, I’m left feeling unsettled as opposed to humored. The reason for this is simple. The church is not intended to identify with the world. [...]
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Could it be effective?
I was catching up on some of my reading reading and came across a summary of a NY Times article on Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill Church in Seattle. The summary wasn’t necessarily meant to be kind to the pastor, but emphasized a closing point. Driscoll’s New Calvinism underscores a curious fact: the doctrine of total [...]
How important is free-will when it comes to loving God?
I was reading a post over at Tim Challies’ site about Free Will. Tim raises some good points concerning the subject and includes a nice little chart from Augustine of Hippo that describes the various states of man’s condition. The key point of the post deals with a statement by C.S. Lewis in his book, [...]
Confusing evaneglism with its fruits
I was perusing some sites to see what the controversy of the day was, when I found a reference to an old friend of mine who is pastoring in Jacksonville FL. On his church’s site, they’ve been having a series of lessons on Evangelism and one of the points struck a cord with me: Probably [...]
Hiatus is over
As far as blogging has been concerned, I’ve been absent for the better part of 2 years. Sure, I’ve poked around to various friends’ sites and dropped an occasional comment or two. I’ve even written a post on very rare occasions. But it has been difficult to write much of anything. I basically reached a [...]
