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“Forgotten Christian Virtues: Rolling in the Ash and Sizing-On the Sackcloth”
Read more: “Forgotten Christian Virtues: Rolling in the Ash and Sizing-On the Sackcloth”“I am trading my sorrows, I am trading my shame I am laying them down for the joy of the Lord… I am trading my sickness, I am trading my pain, I am laying them down for the joy of the Lord!” “Yes Lord, Yes Lord…” And “Yes Lord…” ad nauseam. Most of us are…
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Reflecting on Work
Read more: Reflecting on WorkI recentlychanged jobs. I left the job that I had had since college and set out to do something else in the same field. The change was something I had been contemplating for a number of months before I finally actively pursued it. This decision was precipitated by several factors: a desire to try something…
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Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation
Read more: Baptized with the Spirit: A Meditation“I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (John the Baptist, Mark 1:8) Although many of us are unable to follow, we really ought to commend the Pentecostals for doing something with the notion of Holy Spirit baptism. For the rest of us, it is subsumed under the…
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Weekly Roundup
Read more: Weekly RoundupKyle Strobel uses the eroticism of the Puritans to critique Mark Driscoll’s ongoing narrative about effeminate worship leaders. Elizabeth Antus analyzes compulsive eating from a Christian theological perspective. Matt Jenson discusses Anselm on the fitting nature of divine justice. According to Virginia Postrel, Harvard’s new “Kindness Pledge” is deleterious to serious learning. As a purely historical…
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Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and Family
Read more: Guest Post: An Introduction to the Roles of Men and Women in the Church and FamilyBy Andrew Linderer The issue of men and women in the church seems to be a ticking time bomb in the modern American church. It has enormous potential to split churches, break up families, and leave people broken and confused. It’s a heated debate and often one that brings about a certain degree of petty…
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We Think as we Worship
Read more: We Think as we Worship“They sing” wrote Pliny the Younger. When describing the life and the rituals of this most bizarre new “religion” that was springing up throughout the 1st Century Roman world, depicting the phenomenon and germination of a new people called “Christians.” This profound quote was brought to my attention by Cherith Fee Nordling, in her penetrating…
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Chalcedonian Hermeneutics
Read more: Chalcedonian HermeneuticsAs orthodox Christians we all readily affirm the Chalcedonian Definition of Christology. Jesus the Messiah has two natures; being both completely human and completely divine. These two natures are distinct from each other, yet are united in the single person of Christ. All Christological heresies abandon at least one of these central tenets. We know…
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Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of Ideas
Read more: Biblical Manhood, Pastoral Ministry and Shifting Economic Sands: A Convergence of IdeasOver the past few weeks, I have been critiquing the biblical manhood movement on a number of levels. While those first four posts were crucial in the series I am writing, I want to strike out on a bit of a different tact in these final two posts. In this post in particular, I have…
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How Helpful is the Term “Evangelical”?
Read more: How Helpful is the Term “Evangelical”?Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, posted an article last week on his website entitled, “What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument.” The article was adapted from an essay he wrote for a new collaborative book on the spectrum of evangelicalism. The article gives a brief history of…