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No Retreat, No Compromise
“Christian worship is the declaration that God is creating a new humanity in Christ, and wherever that new humanity gathers, a new center is constituted, a new public square is established. We reject the ghetto-izing of the faith, which wants to worship God without actually creating a city . . . we also reject the …
Striving in the Wrong Direction
“As a comedian once said, ‘It’s hard to explain bad taste to people who actually have it.’ It’s even harder to persuade preachers who’ve tried all their lives to be something that they need only to be nothing — and to trust Jesus to do the rest . . . I hope you get thirsty …
Way Up in the Middle of the Air
In his next chapter, Harris outlines the three philosophical schools of thought on the matter of free will. They are, respectively, the determinist, the libertarian, and the compatibilist schools of thought. The determinist says that we have no free will, deal with it. The libertarian says that we do too have free will, and that …
Which Is Why They Don’t Make Sense Outside the Story
“The Ten Commandments begin with ‘once upon a time'” (Heaven Misplaced, p. 116).
And the Message Just Passes the Needle Around
“Let me say it straight out. I think the reason why there’s so much poor preaching in the church is that preachers, by and large, are as addicted to religion as their congregations are” (Capon, The Foolishness of Preaching, p. 32).
What Happened Right After
“Virtually all the books of the New Testament have an expectant air about them. They are all waiting for something drastic that will happen soon, and not one of them even mentions the most cataclyismic event in Jewish history — the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 — as being past. That event was the …
The Basic Ingredient
“All God needs to make a universe is nothing; all He needs to make a preacher is a nobody” (Capon, The Foolishness of Preaching, p. 26).
Children As Saints
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #68 “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy” (1 Cor. 7:14). The Corinthians had wanted to know whether …
Flipping Coins in the Control Room
There are two levels at least to the debates over the freedom of the will. The first has to do with the intersection of time and eternity, and is a problem that theists have to deal with. Arminians believe that God knows the future exhaustively, and Calvinists believe that He knows this future exhaustively because …