Discipleship… RevFast: Why Are We Fasting? 10 Jan 201211 Jan 2012 Going without food will not make God love you more...but it will shape your love for God. Fasting is essentially a dead spiritual discipline in the American church today. It's…
Hipsters… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 27): Keeping the Fundamentals (Part 6) 5 Jan 20126 Jan 2012 Inclusivism Calling fundamentalists strict might sound as obvious as saying that the Pope wears a funny hat, but it’s a point that has specific bearing on this issue of inclusivism.…
Hipsters… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 26): Keeping the Fundamentals (Part 5) 29 Dec 201130 Dec 2011 The third distraction that appeals strongly to hipsters involves the theme of “community.” For all their aversion to conformity there is nonetheless a strong desire for real authentic community among…
Church… Martin Luther is My Homeboy: The Legacy of Luther (Part 5) 28 Dec 201129 Dec 2011 The church I help pastor is full of people who probably have never heard of Martin Luther. Roughly 50% of our weekly attendance comes in the form of recovering addicts,…
Biblical Theology… The Doctrine of Revelation: The Storlyine of Scripture (Part 20) 27 Dec 201128 Dec 2011 In the beginning God created a garden, and He put man and woman in that garden to cultivate it and to expand it and to build up a world of…
Books… Theology And Semantics: A Review of “The Next Christians” by Gabe Lyons 26 Dec 201127 Dec 2011 Christendom is dead! It died somewhat slowly, like Brittany's career, but it had died just the same. Any illusions that the world had that our country was a Christian nation…
Hipsters… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 25): Keeping the Fundamentals (Part 4) 22 Dec 201123 Dec 2011 Another diversion includes the theme of “spiritual journey.” Instead of the one true proposition of Christ’s atoning death, we are told, we ought to allow people the freedom to experience…
Church History… Martin Luther Is My Homeboy: The Legacy of Luther (Part 2) 21 Dec 201122 Dec 2011 Timothy George states very well that "Protestantism was born out of the struggle for the doctrine of justification by faith alone" (Theology of the Reformers, 62). The most significant element…
Biblical Theology… The Doctrine of Revelation: The Storyline of Scripture (Part 19) 20 Dec 201121 Dec 2011 The apostle Paul wrote a rather astounding statement in his letter to the Ephesians. He said: To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace…
Asides… Christ, Culture, and Debate 19 Dec 2011 Tim Keller recently wrote a post that discussed what he sees as a "coming-together" of views on the Christ and Culture dynamic. There has been, in recent theology, two views…
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