This will be one of those "start small but mighty" Fridays. Check back after noon, TX time.
- Over at The4thDave Blog, Dave Mitchell has been posting his thoughts about the Sufficient Fire conference. He was to post his final thoughts today.
- Speaking of Sufficient Fire, our friends over at Charisma Magazine who is either adding to or improving on Scripture with her private "prophetic words." Once again, it's that 99% fringe that gives the 1% a bad name!
- What, you still want to tell me that Charismatics believe in the sufficiency of Scripture? Well, isn't that special!
- In case you didn't notice: Logos has God's Wisdom in Proverbs on sale this month. Also, WTS Books and the publisher are selling the hard-copy for about 50% off (here and here).
- Last week we noted our latest Profile In Courage By Embodying Its Opposite — the "evangelical" TN church that caved to the homosexualist agenda. Apart from misidentifying the church as "the new Israel," Owen Strachan offers a really terrific, stirring, heartening, un-TGC-like commentary on the incident. It's full of quotables, so just read it.
- Meanwhile, here in Houston, a woman gave up her search for a man, and married herself. I'd say she's every bit as "married" as folks who "marry" in their own sex. (H-t Robert Sakovich.)
- A brother saved from the homosexual lifestyle muses about why God didn't answer his years of prayers to be made straight. It's nuanced, thoughtful, careful and helpful — and yet it's a really good read anyway!
- Denny Burk pointed to a thought-provoking essay about a girl who experienced some sexual identity confusion in 1985, and how there were fewer options to affirm and cement her confusion, and how grateful the lady that she now is that she went through this then and not now.
- Denny also points to a bit of straight thinking (pun noted, not intended) on the absurdity of transgenderist thinking...if it can be called that.
- Denny Trifecta: the prof offers guidelines on how to relate as Christians to those who have mutilated themselves.
@BibChr @TyndaleHouse all I saw is "there is no truth" Farewell, Dan Phillips
— Bible Type (@DogmaticTruth) February 5, 2015
- The best part of Justin Taylor's post on the days of Genesis continues to be the response-pieces. Mark Snoeberger of DBTS offers a detailed (and very good) response to the propping up of old-earthism by Justin Taylor that we noted last week. Really enjoy his style. Refreshing contrast.
- (One of Mark's commenters opined that the post was thoughtful, careful, and respectful. What a terrible thing to say. Don't let that stop you from reading it.)
- Plus: As I've often remarked, when Doug Wilson is good, none is better. As he is when he weighs in on the days of creation. Many thinkables and quotables.
- I wonders: did TGC block 9Marks after this tweet?
Giving and receiving godly criticism is a necessary element in the life of healthy relationships and healthy churches http://t.co/hgYB3qplst
— 9Marks (@9Marks) February 3, 2015
- Relatedly (if you think about it), Carl Trueman offers some more poignant thoughts about the Top Men, their echo chambers, and how we must avoid the same.
- The Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary Journal is a goldmine, and here's an article linking to some examples and pointing to more.
- Good to know that "the medieval Christian threat is under control." #burn
- A really good suggestion for church involvement from Kevin DeYoung.
- At no extra cost, the (really wretched) meta to Kevin's (really excellent) post is yet another illustration of what happens with high-visibility unmoderated comment sections, and why we don't do it. Ironically, you'll see a character there calling himself "A. Amos Love," waving around a note from God as to why Christ's church isn't for him. Evidently he did not use the opportunity to learn from what happened when he tried that here, after his first effort here.
- With some epic-ly clever graphics, Lyndon Unger writes about
anglesangels. - In closing, I ask: What do you get when you cross a really fast pianist with a really fast drummer? And I answer: This guy.
21 comments:
Really enjoying Snoeberger's work more each time I read his writing. He is concise, yet fairly comprehensive.
That article by Jean Loyd was quite touching. If only people tried to remember what it was like being a teenager and how much we learn just by being allowed to work things out in life. It is good to deal with pain and struggle...that is what builds character (that's even Biblical!).
The Matt Moore article was great, too. It is good to see Christians willing to open up and let people see their struggles so as to offer encouragement. This shouldn't be limited to same-sex attraction, either.
That article by Strachan does a good job of calling out these acts as cowardice and not bravery. And that was quite a stretch by that guy using the road to Emmaus and comparing that to his "epiphany".
Glad to see the Creation Account, Genesis etc getting the attention it deserves.
Great articles from Snoeberger, Wilson etc
I would like to suggest a little research by all about the possible results of affirming the "anything but recent creation, 24 hour day view of Genesis".
Charles Francis Potter former baptist minister, advisor to Clarence Darrow in Scopes trial, founder of Humanism. His book "Humanism: A New Religion" was printed in 1930.
There's a woman marrying herself?
Who would have thought that this was where it was all going.
Now that Justin Taylor has thrown 6-day creation under the bus, should we expect a leftward shift in Crossway books? Will the ESV be safe? Or will we end up with an 'ESV 2011' version?
I am also edified by Dan's use of Doug Wilson.
Loved the Jindal response to Obama. Now that is funny.
The xylophone player reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM3HdjhV1Xw
Okay Sharon, the second minute of that is about the scariest thing I've seen for a long, long time. And I don't just mean the bass player.
Many thanks for the link, brothers. (Check that goal off my 2015 list!)
The Session #5 post is up. The Session #6 post will go live at about 3pm CST.
It's interesting to see that Montanism is alive and well. The problem with it that you so aptly pointed out is that it adds to the scriptures. Interestingly, in this vein, I've been told by liberal theologians that their take on what Scripture says should be taken seriously because "there are different views on what the Bible says". Given that the Bible doesn't mean multiple conflicting things at any point, I'm generally hesitant to accept a view that claims that the Bible means something other than what it appears to mean at first blush. It's not that clarification through reasoning from the cultural and linguistic context of the human author and original audience might not shed some light on things, but I tread carefully in those instances.
That said, Many OECists make the argument that the Bible allows for some reading other than what it appears to say because they believe that the science is pretty certain in the age of the universe. So they want to tweak the Bible to fit the science. Afraid of Galileo much? He doesn't apply in this case since the exegesis of the passage used against him was particularly bad. YECists insist that it's wise to investigate how certain the science actually is versus a sound exegesis of God's Revelation to us. So YECists would doubt the science based on sound exegesis of scripture. I did my studies in physics at UNC Charlotte and my studies in philosophy at CIU. (Neither are great stalwarts in those fields, but the education is still and better than what you might get at Chapel Hill these days apparently.) I can tell you that the science behind attempts to discover the age of the universe and the age of the earth (two different things, actually) have epistemological problems that the Scriptures don't have if we understand their divine origin. In fact, if we understand that the creation of the universe was a supernatural event, it necessarily defies attempts to investigate it using naturalistic means.
At that, I appreciate Doug Wilson's take on it. He has one or two areas where I would adjust his language, but I think his comments on the passages he references are pretty well done.
Looking at "Grace Pointe"'s website, specifically the pastor's recommended reading list, I get the impression it's a liberal megachurch or megachurch wannabe, not a conservative one.
The Jindal response is pandering and juvenile. Sure Obama has been hesitant to call it like it is ie. Islamic Terrorism. It's embarrassing more than anything.
But everything he said was accurate. Jindal picked his subject (medieval times)to singe not burn the president. Conservative professing Bible believing southern Christians were the religious backbone of American apartheid even in the 60s. The 1960s not the 1560s. America not Europe.
The bass player in Sharon's referred video is pretty scary, but I think the bass player in the Del Tones is scarier, from the video DJP linked of Dickie Dale doing "Miserlou" some time back (maybe at Biblical Christianity).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
(1:19ff)
It's Dick Dale, sorry.
Oddly enough, it was also Bible believing southern Christians who were the backbone of the civil rights movement. Black ones, mind, but still. Also, apartheid? Seriously? The Afrikaners went to lengths that Orval Faubus and Ross Barnett could only dream of.
As to Jindal being juvenile--yeah, no. It might have been snarky and oversimplified, but "Kill them all, God knows His own" stopped really being a thing church leaders backed sometime around the 1600s. At the moment, we're dealing with Islamic extremism, extremism backed unambiguously by their religion. Dredging up the Crusades and Inquisition is not helpful.
Well, there's a distinction between Conservatives and other mainline and black churches. It was those liberals and let's all getalong types that supported that movement.
Obama made his comments at a "prayer meeting". Not in the war room.
Apartheid means separation through legislation. Legislation the oppressed group has no ability to shape.
But I agree that we must deal with now now. Islamic Terror must be crushed and there isn't just one solution to this problem.
Lets agree only for the sake of conversation that what you say about " conservative ... christians" is true and to the extent you say.
At least that group had within its belief system the remedy. Martin Luther King Jr reminded that group of our common faith, the principles of our government, a need for a Savior that knew no color.
He reminded that group that he was their brother so should not be treated as "less than".
I agree with what AJM says for the sake of any conversation anywhere at anytime.
Saw Kevin DeYoung's post, and I totally agree with you on the meta. I don't know that there are any good answers to the comments dilemma. Either you have an open meta, which leaves a fair chance the discussion will go to Hades, or you actively police the meta, and likely have some very insightful commenters leave. The other problem with policing the meta is the blog author needs plenty of free time on his hands, and a pastor of DeYoung's caliber likely has little enough free time as it is. In any event, I would have loved to have deleted "A. Amos Love" posts and replace them with the "Note from God" Team Pyro article.
Exactly, you caught the dilemma.
Loved the kid on the xylophone. I couldn't find a better one of Brian with Flight of the Bumblebee:
http://www.broadjam.com/artists/videos.php?artistID=11505&mediaID=7019
Thanks. Good stuff.
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