Month March 2007

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The Nature of the Atonement

There’s nothing like a good debate to stir the juices and make you think! To listen to a bunch of intellectual heavyweights slugging it out verbally is more than just spectator sport, it’s a healthy exercise in personal mind-expansion. The…

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Sneaker Seeker Sensitive Churches

I’ve been preaching through Acts and have been making some references to the “meat offered to idols” issue. And it crossed my mind, “This has some bearing on sneakers and church!” Right! The connection is tenuous, to be sure. Let…

r21_arthead

The Return of King Tut

King Tut has returned–this time to Philadelphia. Having first been rediscovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, and having toured the world in the most popular exhibition ever in the 1970’s, the treasures of King Tutankhamun are on…

r21_arthead

The Return of King Tut

King Tut has returned–this time to Philadelphia. Having first been rediscovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, and having toured the world in the most popular exhibition ever in the 1970’s, the treasures of King Tutankhamun are on…

r21_arthead

Lloyd-Jones on the Two Commandments

A reformation21 reader has written with a helpful comment on First Commandment and Second Commandment Christians, so called: “Years ago Dr. D Martin Lloyd-Jones warned about the subtle danger of reversing the order of the two commandments (somewhere in his…

r21_arthead

Tonight

A heads up here on a couple of events: (1) Al Mohler is scheduled to be an ABC World News tonight discussing his controversial blog post on homosexuality; (2) Alister McGrath and Richard Dawkins will debate the God Delusion tonight…

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Second Commandment Christians

Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is quoted in this week’s TIME magazine as saying, “I’m a ‘grace’ Christian, not a ‘law’ Christian. The Second Commandment–do unto others–is the basic tenet of my faith.” I expect Huckabee’s formulation quickly…

r21_arthead

The power of cliche

Preparing a lecture which touches on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, especially her understanding of evil as epitomised in the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann (who, contra some Reformed “thinkers,” — ahem! — seemed to think that the Holocaust really…

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The power of cliche

Preparing a lecture which touches on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, especially her understanding of evil as epitomised in the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann (who, contra some Reformed “thinkers,” — ahem! — seemed to think that the Holocaust really…

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The power of cliche

Preparing a lecture which touches on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, especially her understanding of evil as epitomised in the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann (who, contra some Reformed “thinkers,” — ahem! — seemed to think that the Holocaust really…