Archive for the 'Emergent' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
With thanks to Pure Church.
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.
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Now former Emergent National Coordinator Tony Jones (he stepped down as of Oct. 31) has “emerged” at Beliefnet to blog there. His true beliefs about homosexuals have emerged too. In what he calls a “blogalogue” with Rod, Tony says:
In any case, I now believe that GLBTQ can live lives in accord with biblical Christianity (at [...]
Wasn’t it just a matter of time? Heretic Brian McClaren, Donald Miller, Leonard Sweet, et al have collaborated with a bunch of other folks to give us The Voice. This is the result of the vision of Emergent Chris Seay. The site says,
As western culture moved into what is now referred to as postmodernism, Chris [...]
Spurgeon on the Pomos and Emerg*** church:
Charles Spurgeon: An excerpt from a sermon “Laying the Foundations.” Preached January 21, 1883.
Beware of a religion without holdfasts. But if I get a grip upon a doctrine they call me a bigot. Let them do so. Bigotry is a hateful thing, and yet
Dr. Thomas Schreiner concludes his review of McKnight’s book The Blue Parakeet in part five of five. I have referred to parts 1-4 here.
In part five, Dr. Schreiner brings it home, so to speak, on the issue of women in ministry. He concludes that,
…McKnight’s argument is women “were in ministry then, and they should be [...]
One of the things I appreciate about the Emerging Church Movement generally is that they stress the narrative aspects of Scripture. As they rightly insist, Scripture is not just a big fact-book. It’s not just a series of propositions and commandments. It’s not even a systematic theology textbook. Scripture is a story of God’s plan [...]
With credit to Gene Veith at Cranach: The Blog of Veith for pointing this out, here is the messianic one himself on absolute truth:
“It’s not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility
