Well, The PCA has women officers
September 8, 2009
I know, some have said that’s not what all the discussion is about. But read on… Read the rest of this entry »
Core values can be funny
August 26, 2009
Doug Wilson muses about Brian Mclaren’s observance of Ramadan. We noted that here. Wilson’s post is well worth reading for sure. His comments include this about core values (something we see quite often these days on church web sites):
[from Mclaren} "Among the core values of Ramadan are Read the rest of this entry »
John MacArthur: Sometimes avoiding conflict is sinful
August 19, 2009
John MacArthur’s book The Jesus You Can’t Ignore: What You Must Learn from The Bold Confrontations of Christ looks like a good one. Here is an excerpt:
The problem is that the needed reformation within evangelicalism won’t occur at all if false ideas that undermine our core theological convictions cannot be openly attacked and excluded. When peaceful coexistence “with our deepest differences” becomes priority one and conflict per se is demonized as inherently sub-Christian, any and every false religious belief can and will demand an equal voice in the “conversation.”
That has actually been happening for some time already. Listen, for example, to what some of the leading voices in and around the Emergent movement have said. Tony Campolo is a popular speaker and author who has a major influence in evangelical circles. He believes evangelicals should Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Mclaren to celebrate Ramadan
August 18, 2009
How can ANY Christian take this guy seriously related to spiritual matters? Here is a quote from his web site:
Ramadan is the Muslim holy month of fasting for spiritual renewal and purification. It commemorates the month during which Muslims believe Mohammed received the Quran through divine revelation, and it calls Muslims to self-control, sacrificial generosity and solidarity with the poor, diligent reading of the Quran, and intensified prayer.
This year, I, along with a few Christian friends (and perhaps others currently unknown to us will want to join in) will be joining Muslim friends in the fast which begins August 21. We are not doing so in order to become Muslims: we are deeply committed Christians. But as Christians, we want to come close to our Muslim neighbors and to share this important part of life with them. Just as Jesus, a devout Jew, overcame religious prejudice and learned from a Syrophonecian woman and was inspired by her faith two thousand years ago (Matthew 15:21 ff, Mark 7:24 ff), we seek to learn from our Muslim sisters and brothers today.
Can anyone defend this?
UN Secretary: We have four months to save our planet!
August 13, 2009
One category for this post is unbelievable. Sadly, people like this knucklehead (and other knuckleheads like AlGore) have control, for now.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says we only have four months to secure the “future of humanity“:
We have the power to change course. But we must do it now.
As we move toward Copenhagen in December, we must “Seal a Deal” on climate change that secures our common future. I’m glad that the Chairman of the forum and many other speakers have used my campaign slogan “Seal the Deal” in Copenhagen. I won’t charge them loyalty. Please use this “Seal the Deal” as widely as possible, as much as you can. We must seal the deal in Copenhagen for the future of humanity.
We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.
Any agreement must be fair, effective, equitable and comprehensive, and based on science. And it must help vulnerable nations adapt to climate change.
Hmmmm. FLASHBACK:
In 1989 the UN said we had ten years to prevent climate disaster or, by 2000, entire nations would be wiped off the map by “global warming”. Yet it’s cooler now than it was in 1988, the year before the UN made its doom-laden prediction. Temperature outturn is indeed tending to falsify the hypothesis of high climate sensitivity.
Can someone tell me why we should believe Ki-moon?
The government wants us to “trust them?”
August 12, 2009
Tim and David Bayly have written an excellent piece over at their blog. Excerpts:
For several weeks, now, the news has been filled with articles reassuring Americans that government medicine is inevitable and poses no danger to us. They tell us government medicine will not fund abortions except Read the rest of this entry »
From the WeGetIt campaign: Read the rest of this entry »
Is missional the best word to use?
July 10, 2009
Dominic Aquila doesn’t think so. Read the rest of this entry »
World’s Largest Strip Club
June 22, 2009
Puritan Lad shows where “relevance” takes us.
Global Warming Myths
May 26, 2009
With so many gullible Christians out there…here are some very inconvenient facts: Read the rest of this entry »
Going Green with God’s Word
January 2, 2009
Tonight, I was taking a look at the “Christianity” section of the local Barnes & Nobel bookstore. The best way I can describe this experience was “cruising through a minefield”. Yes, there were some genuinely orthodox titles, but they were literally bracketed by a panoply of selections ranging from marginal at best to heretical at worst. If in fact the publishers are reflecting the tastes of the consuming “evangelical” public, we are in deep and treacherous waters!
Pity the poor fellow who, stirred by a whim to read some Christian literature, decides to take a spin in B&N’s Pomo-land and revisionist theology-ville.
Well, I happened to glance at the Bible section, naively thinking “how much damage can the publishers do to the Bible?” Not to be outdone by the “Christian” non-fiction section (although much of this was truly theological fiction!), my eyes fell on…..get ready for this folks (imagine a drum roll here) …The Green Bible!
The tree-hugging folk will want to get their very own copy of this unique contribution to holy writ!
Here’s an endorsement by a leading evangelical…
“This is exactly what the Church needs at this critical time.”
—Richard Cizik, vice president for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Wow, given that urgent appeal to evangelical sensibilities, let’s take a look inside and see what The Green Bible has to offer…
The Green Bible will equip and encourage people to see God’s vision for creation and help them engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the earth.
The Green Bible includes the
following distinctive features:
- Green-Letter Edition: Verses and passages that speak to God’s care for creation highlighted in green
- Contributions by Brian McLaren, Matthew Sleeth,
N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, and many others - A green Bible index and personal study guide
- Recycled paper, using soy-based ink with a cotton/linen cover
I have to assume the persons ( gender-neutral, please!) working the presses at Harper publishing were unionized and drinking fair-trade coffee made from organic beans and using electrolyte-enhanced water!
You’ll be pleased to know this unique Bible was produced in conjunction with no less significant evangelical-friendly organizations than…
The Sierra Club
The Humane Society and
Eco-Justice Program (a missional outreach of the National Council of Churches)…whew, it’s great to know that various forms of eco-injustice have somehow been ferreted out and averted!
Well, hop in your Prius hybrid and pick up a copy today! And remember…you read about it here on Reformation Faith Today!
Narrative preaching or preaching narrative
December 16, 2008
Paul Lamey at Expository Thoughts has blogged a couple of posts about preaching narrative. In his first post he quotes Fred Craddock, author of As One Without Authority , thus:
Expository preaching or biblical preaching has been found guilty of archaism, sacrificing the present to the past. One should, according to this view, choose relevant topics for treatment. Scriptures can be read in the service for mood or Read the rest of this entry »
Miscellany from around the blogosphere
December 12, 2008
I did not know this was out there. Our Reformed brothers at The Founders Ministries have the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 available in modern english. Check it out here.
The Bayly brothers at the Bayly Blog have a post titled NEA VP Richard Cizik states, “I believe in civil (sodomite) unions,” and resigns. The Baylys write:
If the NAE simply changed its name to the National Association of Emergents, Cizik would be a perfect fit. So again, I suggest the PCA leave bad enough alone. Let’s have an overture to this year’s General Assembly calling for our resignation. The NAE is a train wreck that doesn’t need one more passenger car added to the pile.
I wholeheartedly agree!
Answers in Genesis has a post on Radiocarbon Ages for Fossil Ammonites and Wood. In concluding remarks: Read the rest of this entry »
Emerging chaos
November 26, 2008
With thanks to Pure Church.
Systematics with Robert Reymond (2): Propositional Revelation
November 25, 2008
More from Dr. Robert L. Reymond’s A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Thomas Nelson, 1998; Second Edition-Revised & Expanded, 2001). Purchase here or here or here. As I read through this excellent work I will post some excerpts from time to time which I believe will be helpful in propagating the Reformed faith.
This larger excerpt below is from chapter one, The Fact of Divine Revelation. This section of chapter one is Dr. Reymond’s answer to Language Philosophy’s Objection (pp. 17-18):
A second modern objection to the notion of a verbal or propositional revelation from God to human beings contends that language is simply inadequate as a vehicle of personal communication and surely incapable of expressing literal truth about transcendent realities (the first objection is what Reymond calls The Neoorthodox Objection; “religious truth …will always be existential truth–that is, subjective “truth for me.” p. 12)
At the end of this chapter Dr. Reymond concludes
Now, of course, it is true that people can and do interpret the Scriptures differently-indeed, Read the rest of this entry »
