Theology That Bites Back
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Introduction: There are only two “ways,” two fundamental religions in the world. One of them feeds people, and the other one eats people. We see this contrast in vivid relief in the juxtaposition that Mark gives to the death of John the Baptist. That sad but typical episode is followed immediately by the feeding of …
The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship by A.W. Tozer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Quite good. Tozer is solid over all, and writes with passion and intelligence. Some great word pictures as well. View all my reviews
Because The Shack has now been made into a movie, I thought I should bump this old review of the book to the top of the pile. This was first published on 8/21/08. I had been asked by several different people what I thought of The Shack, a hot selling book by William Young. It …
Introduction: Scripture teaches that the flocks of God are precious, and they are precious because of what it took to purchase them. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own …
“Did you know that we are just 5 percent of the world’s population, and yet we still consume 62 percent of the world’s priggishness?” (Food Catholic, p. 49).
“There is a kind of religious duty that is of the flesh, for the flesh, and by the flesh” (Food Catholic, p. 48).
Our annual Grace Agenda conference is coming up later this month, and our outside guest is Mike Reeves. You can check out more details on the conference here. The fact that we were having him speak for us motivated me to read a couple of his books, Delighting in the Trinity and Rejoicing in Christ, …
Thomas Kuhn gave us a good description of how scientific paradigms collapse. He wasn’t really talking about the theory of evolution, but what he said applies to that theory, and applies by the shovelful. When a new paradigm is adopted, there are a few anomalies that remain unexplained. Think of the new paradigm as a …
“Yeast in the loaf doesn’t obey the established election cycle” (Empires of Dirt, p. 43).
