For the past few weeks, it’s been hard to ignore the news coverage regarding the virtual collapse of the American financial industry. From talk of foreclosures, credit crunches, “predatory lending,” and bailouts, we’ve been inundated with bad news.
Today I read an article which poses the question, “Is God to blame?” Or more to the point [...]
Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
Prosperity Gospel and Economic Recession?
Posted in Culture, Theology on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Piper on the Prosperity Gospel
Posted in Theology on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Driscoll Critiques Joel Osteen
Posted in Ministry, Theology on November 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, recently made the following critique of mega-pastor Joel Osteen. I haven’t seen a preacher yet who has done a better job of providing a biblical critique of Osteen’s ministry.
Thoughts?
A Word from the Heidelberg Catechism
Posted in Church History, Ministry, Theology on September 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Here is a word of encouragement to those who are bearing heavy hearts:
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong - body and soul, in life and in death - to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with [...]
Something to Ponder
Posted in Ministry, Theology on May 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least of all the sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing [...]
The Making of an Evangelical
Posted in Academia, Church History, Culture, Theology on May 10, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Nathan Finn posted a question on his blog not too long ago entitled, “Defining Fundamentalism,” where he requested his readers to supply some rudimentary definitions of fundamentalism. In the spirit of Finn-ness, I present today’s post.
This afternoon I began reading America’s God by Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre [...]
ETS President Returns to Rome
Posted in Academia, Theology on May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Several of you may have already heard about this on the blogosphere, but for folks like me who have their head stuck in reference books (after all, it is the end of the semester), I have some news.
Dr. Francis Beckwith, an associate professor at Baylor University and President of the Evangelical Theological Society, announced on May 5th [...]
Owen on Knowing God
Posted in Theology on May 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It has been almost two weeks since my last post but ironically this blog has had more activity than at any other time in its two-year existence. Maybe I should take a blogging break more often.
For the past several months I have been slowly making my way through John Owen’s On the Mortification of Sin [...]
Our Mother, Who Art in Heaven?
Posted in Ministry, Theology on April 27, 2007 | 29 Comments »
The debate over inclusive language use in Bible translation and worship services is no new phenomenon. Since the rise of extreme forms of the feminist movement in the 1960’s, groups within the church have argued that the Bible (and Christianity) is needlessly sexist, patriarchical, and even chauvinistic. Some of the criticism may be warranted, but [...]
The Real Jesus
Posted in Academia, Church History, Theology on April 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hot on the heels of Passion Week, Pope Benedict XVI today released his new book, Jesus of Nazareth. An academic study of early Christianity and the relevant documentary evidence, the Pope’s work is rumored to be a powerful rebuttal to the recent flurries which have arisen in popular circles over the Talpioth Tomb, the Da Vinci [...]
