Theology That Bites Back
I just finished The Winter King by Christine Cohen, and really enjoyed it. I have selected it as my choice for book of the month in the hope that you will also (start and) finish it, and enjoy it as much as I did. The book is written for kids, and the challenging aspects of …
“And the earth would go around the sun ten entire times before he had finally met Cindi, who, as Puritans go, was as hot as it gets. And, John thought smugly to himself, for those who think that means ‘not very,’ he could write a book, although no Christian publisher would ever touch it. She could make him bleed from both his ears, like some very happy kind of parachute accident. John grinned inside his head.”
“The very first qualification for expository preaching is the recognition that we are guardians of a sacred ‘deposit’ of truth (1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:12-14), trustees of the gospel (1 Thess. 2:4), ‘stewards of the mysteries of God’ (1 Cor. 4:1,2 KJV).”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 27
Introduction: To review, things are quite a mess. Not only are they quite a mess, but it is difficult to imagine that the pickle we have gotten ourselves into would have been at all visible from the vantage point of the eighties, say. Let us pretend that some mischievous hippie back then slipped some acid …
