June 2010
10 posts
Salty Mission | Living Within God's Story →
My latest post over at Living Within God’s Story…
A Redemptive-Historical Overview of John Chapter 3
From J. Dennison
Excerpt:
John 3:16
How does John use this term “cosmos”? Cosmos has no personal force. In John’s gospel the word “world” does not refer to individuals as in the paraphrase “God loves each and every person in the world.” No. rather cosmos has an ethical force in John’s gospel. It means the arena of ethical hostility to God and his...
Church Planting initiative aims to renew mainline... →
George Orwell: 6 Questions/6 Rules →
George Orwell has earned the right to be called one of the finer writers in the English language through such novels as 1984, Animal Farm, and Down and Out in Paris and London, and such essays as “Shooting an Elephant.”
Orwell expressed a strong dislike of totalitarian governments in his work, but he was also passionate defender of good writing. Thus, you may want to hear some of Orwell’s...
Union in Christ: A Declaration
“Union in Christ: A Declaration for the Church”
“He is before all things and in him all things hold together”
(Colossians 1:17)
With the witness of Scripture and the Church through the ages we declare:
I.Jesus Christ is the gracious mission of God
to the world
and for the world.
He is Emmanuel and Savior,
One with the Father, God incarnate as Mary’s son, Lord of all, The truly human one....
Sistine Chapel →
Pretty neat look at the Sistine Chapel. I think something gets lost when we only look at some of the paintings abstracted from the rest of the building. It is rather breathtaking…
Here’s some more info on it.
HT: Jim Hamilton
Score of Redemption
They are just lines, circles, and dots upon paper. Artistically, they don’t make sense; they don’t communicate. But it sprawled the page, fragile enough to be destroyed by a tear, crumble, or rip.
They sit lifeless on the page, unable to do anything. Each mark connected to the next, part of an unfolding progression eagerly awaiting a receptor. Each mark awaits for a falling hammer.
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Wrightians and the Neo-Reformed: 'All One in... →
A very interesting article contrasting the T4G conference with the Wheaton conference.
For the T4G folks, protecting disputed doctrines against heresy is where good theology is born. Clear thinking comes from friction and protestation, from Hegelian dialectics (R.C. Sproul spoke on this), but not from compromise. The Patristic Fathers got it right whenever they were ironing out disputed...
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Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit (Unabridged) by Francis Chan
A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit’s direction in our lives. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with...