“When Helping Hurts” (2)
Okay, I said my next post would be a review of the book “When Helping Hurts.” However, I found this interview with the authors and thought it would be beneficial. I’ll begin going into detail on this important book in…
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Worship Carefully Considered
It seems that worship is too often limited to the topic of music. Since music is an emotional issue (in the church at least) this narrowing is probably why discussions concerning worship often generate more heat than light. There is…
Treating Terminally Ill Infants with Dignity
While serving as a pastor in Wichita, Kansas I had the honor of being connected with Choices Medical Clinic (a pro-life) medical clinic. They have had an awesome ministry. One of the creatively compassionate things that Choices provided for parents…
Blog 157: 3.23.1 – 3.23.5
The other side of divine election for Calvin is divine reprobation, which is necessary if the case of election is to stand. Reprobation means “those whom God passes over, he condemns; and this he does for no other reason than…
Blog 156: 3.22.8 – 3.22.11
Even though Calvin’s principle that God’s good pleasure is the determining factor in human destiny seems well established in Romans 9-11 and the words of Jesus, he also dealt with the support or opposition of church fathers. After all, Ambrose,…
“Emergent” Briefly Stated
Even as the emergent movement begins to slip into obscurity where it will eventually end up on the trash heap of other unhelpful fads that have harmed the church I am still frequently asked about it. Emergent is a notoriously…
Lane Tipton on Justification
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“We’re conservative right up until the moment that it costs us”
I know about Judd Apatow. I know about his movies. I’ve seen almost half of “40 Year Old Virgin” but have not seen “Knocked Up.” I have heard the buzz about his movies being a strange new brand of raunchy…
Should the church try to entertain? OR Christians aren’t that funny
Joel Stein who writes for Time Magazine certainly comes across as smug and condescending. He is also no fan of Christians who take their confession seriously. In an article he wrote for Time.com in July he puts these “qualities” on…
Blog 155: 3.22.4 – 3.22.7
Calvin moves to establish his argument that election is rooted in God’s sovereign determination and not in human merit by turning to Romans 9-11. There he finds in the case of Jacob and Esau this basic principle: “If the will…