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Stranger in a Strange Land

Nathan Williams has written two posts (here and here) about his recent visit to Mars Hill Bible Church pastored by emerging church leader Rob Bell. I think William’s experience speaks for itself.

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Segregated in Christ?

This Sunday I am preaching on Acts 6:1-7. It is the account of the first real challenge to the church’s unity. The incident that Luke recounts exposed an ugly division within the body of Christ in Jerusalem. The division, which…

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Trinitarian Discipleship

I love J.I. Packer. I try to read everything he writes. His influence upon sound evangelical thinking would be difficult to overestimate. One of Packer’s many strengths is his ability to pack a freight train of theology into a comparitively…

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You Might Be Emergent If…

“You might be an emergent Christian: if you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church), use sermon illustrations from The Sopranos, drink lattes in the afternoon and Guinness in the evenings, and always use a Mac;…

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SBC Bravado

Thanks to Timmy Brister for this important post: “Nobody can tell a Southern Baptist what to do.”“That’s the comment by Darrell Orman, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, speaking to Christianity Today after the passing of the resolution on regenerate church…

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Patriotism in the Pew

Take time to listen to this edition of the Albert Mohler Program. Dr. Russell Moore is the host and his two guests are Mark Dever of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University. The question the program…

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Gracia

I was deeply touched by Gracia and Mindy’s song Sunday morning. I listen to Gracia when she talks about God’s goodness and sovereignty because her faith has been tested in ways that mine has not. How good it was…

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Politics and the Church’s Mandate

Given that the primary season is over I thought I would re-post an entry I wrote in 2007. I think this will also help to answer questions I sometimes receive about why Metro East does not have an American flag…