Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Politics, Theology and Discipleship, government, political theory on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship, tagged christianity, cross, jesus, sin on October 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Sadly, this blog has lain dormant for a few weeks while I’ve been taking midterms and considering the things of God on my xanga blog. (Mostly, I just wanted to bump that silly post on drinking down the page.)
I’ve just picked up John Stott’s work The Cross of Christ, again, as well as a book [...]
Posted in Current Events, Evangelism and Apologetics, Theology and Discipleship, philosophy, political theory on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
How excellent are your works, O God!
Your people see them and rejoice,
those who you have called from every nation, from every time;
the poor and the rich, the unknown and the great.
Out of the east you called Abraham,
and made of him a nation, Israel, your holy people;
From slavery in Egypt you delivered them.
You saw the horror [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
(Since the last post wasn’t controversial enough)
Obviously the first churches were held in people’s houses. There really wasn’t anywhere else to meet. So really, “house churches” is not quite what I’m talking about. But then, you know what I’m talking about, don’t you?
Here are a list of some of the problems I worry about with [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
WorldMagBlog featured a post today about how infants begin to practice deception at an earlier age than previously supposed. [Link to referenced Telegraph UK article]
According to researcher Dr. Vasudevi Reddy:
“Fake crying is one of the earliest forms of deception to emerge, and infants use it to get attention even though nothing is wrong. You can [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
As much as we work to seek God, knock on Heaven’s door, and ask for His presence, it’s the influence of his Holy Spirit that comes and gives us the very desire to do it.
Have you ever thought about how really and truly undeserved God’s grace is? We don’t lose anything and we get everything.
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Faith & Reason, Reformed Theology, Scripture of the Day, Theology and Discipleship on June 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Tito Mercado preached this morning.
God’s adoptive love was the topic of his sermon, and the Scripture passage was Ephesians 1.
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, [4] even as he chose us in him before the [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship on March 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Doug Phillips writes of a C of E service he attended at Westminster Abbey [Reformation21]:
…the freight of the worship service was carried by the liturgy, which of course was straight Cranmer. It was tremendously redemptive in focus and extremely rich. It strikes me that this liturgically-loaded service has a great strength and a [...]
Posted in Democracy, Ethics, Evangelism and Apologetics, Faith & Reason, literature on March 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Driving back to school I was listening to this opening paragraph from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and it stuck in my mind, as it seemed to show, not only an insight for paradox, but a keen and perceptive understanding of the nature of the French Revolution and its adversaries.
IT WAS the best [...]
Posted in Current Events, Democracy, Evangelism and Apologetics, Faith & Reason, Politics, Reformed Theology, political theory on February 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Political philosopher Eric Voegelin wrote in his book The New Science of Politics: “From the Gnostic mysticism of the two worlds emerges the pattern of the universal wars that has come to dominate the twentieth century” (151). Central to the immanentist vision which Voegelin criticises is a strong faith in and regard for the basic [...]
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