This new release from Tullian is worth a look. Check here.
Covenant Renewal
While the structure of a typical CREC worship service has a lot in common with what visitors might call a “traditional worship service”—enough so as to simply be a variation on such services—there are certain elements about that stand out, and which probably will draw some questions. The first is the common practice of identifying …
Murmuration Glory
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. HT: Joe Rigney
Forgiveness and Do-Overs
INTRODUCTION:The story in this chapter has many similarities to the story two chapters earlier, when David spared the life of Saul in the cave. In both instances, Saul was completely within David’s reach. In both cases, David was urged to take Saul’s life. In both situations, David took a token that would prove that Saul …
Spiritual Dropsy
In Luke 14, we read an account of a time when Jesus was invited to share table fellowship with Pharisees at a Sabbath meal. He accepted the invitation even though they arranged to have a man with dropsy there, a man with an unquenchable thirst. They did this as a trap at a meal of …
Shopping At Cabela’s Isn’t Fishing
I have mentioned to you before that we want to be focusing on coordinating our ministry as a congregation as we live out our profession of faith in our community. We don’t intend to bind anyone’s conscience in any of this, but we do want to urge you, as the Lord leads, to join together …
No Condemnation Where There Ought to Be Some
A friend shared this link with me, one that illustrates nicely a point I have made before about the importance of “justification” in cultural and social polemics. First, check out this link that compares the Tea Party protests and the Occupy protests. Having perused that, here is the point about justification again. Justification means, as …
A Very Fine Review
Jason Hood has reviewed Nate’s Tilt-a-Whirl DVD for Books & Culture, and absolutely nails it. He not only understands the whole point of the book and DVD (which is a reviewer’s job), but he also reproduces and expands the point by reviewing in the spirit of the thing (which is above and beyond). You can …
And With Our Guidons Flapping Smartly
“Of course, we were bound to get to the subject of evolution sooner or later . . . You think that creationists are bereft of any intellectual dignity whatever, and I agree with Malcolm Muggeridge that in retrospect evolution will be seen to have been one of the great jokes of history. Well, if your …
A Scandal That Is Both
“The closer you get to what makes Christianity ghastly, the closer you get to what makes it glorious” (Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, p. xi)