I have been having a web/audio sort of discussion about Christ and culture with Nelson Kloosterman, Bill Dennison, and Darryl Hart here. Some podcasts are already up. I just taped my last contribution, and new posts (from the different contributors) should go up once a week for the next month.
As In, Calm Down Everybody
I am not entirely certain, but it appears that Rick Warren tweeted about the first video clip that CanonWIRED put up about the Piper/Warren thing. Here is a second clip to add to the discussion. It is an attempt to be a calming voice in a debate where the voices tend to rise sharply — …
When Civilizations Are Baptized in Infancy
When theological folks dichotomize, they often do it without regard to the reality of time. And this causes no end of trouble. Given their assumptions about the political dualities of life, the anabaptist impulse to reject infant baptism is a shrewd one, because all these things are connected together. And infant baptism is a statement, …
The Prodigal Returns to a Ruin
In chapter 7, Peter describes his rediscovery of faith. But when he comes back to the Anglican church of his youth, he discovers the place greatly altered, and not for the better, because churchmen whose backbone had been carved out of a banana had been listening to the outside critics — critics who had shared …
Legalized Plunder
Here it is, in a nutshell. The state is either under authority or it is not. If the state is not under authority, it has no authority — only power. That means that prudence might dictate doing what they say, but conscience never could. So the only way conscience can direct the citizenry to obey …
Beatus Vir
He blessed is who neither loosely treads The straying steps as wicked counsel leadsNay for bad mates in way of sinning waiteth, Nor yet himself with idle scorners seatethBut on God’s law his heart’s delight doth bind Which night and day he calls to marking mind. He shall be like a freshly planted tree To …
A Cute Little Thing With Brown Eyes Named D516808
There are three basic approaches to religion that are possible. We may opt for escape, we may lust for power, or we may exercise dominion. HT: Gary North The first doesn’t want Christ to rule over us, but wants to evade the personal consequences of this decision. When Christ is not acknowledged as Lord, somebody …
An Armed Deacon of God
INTRODUCTION:We are taking care to work through this passage of Scripture deliberately and slowly, and there are at least two reasons for this. First, the issues involved are complex and important, and are even more complex and important in our day than they usually are. Second, the misunderstandings that surround this portion of Scripture are …
To Gladden the Hearts of All Men
This is a meal of bread and wine, not milk and honey, but we need to talk about milk and honey anyway. The land of Canaan, the land to be inherited by Israel, is routinely described as a land flowing with milk and honey, and it is the land of blessing, the land of their …
Above and Beyond Responsibility
The apostle Paul once said that he filled out the sufferings of Christ (Col. 1:24). Clearly, he did not mean that the atonement was somehow lacking—when Jesus cried that it was finished, it really was finished. So what did He mean? The complete atonement established the body of Christ, and because of the completeness and …