Linkathon!
The healing chaos of love in “Turtles All The Way Down”… excellent piece on mental illness
Tyndale sued by boy who didn’t come back from heaven…
Get your manhood on at “Stronger Mens Conference”…
Jack Deere’s raw autobiography…
Christian nationalism is anti-Gospel…
How Liberty University built a billion dollar empire online…
Bible scholars and women in ministry…
Rethinking evangelism through the Reformation…
God called us to be peacemakers, not peacekeepers…
Toward a more balanced Gospel…
Dead, dirty, and weak…that’s us…
Montana church leaving SBC for “social justice promoting”…
How the church gets justice wrong and how to begin getting it right…
Why Christian high schools are filling with atheist students…
Dolphins cheerleader says she was discriminated against for her faith and virginity…
How to engage your church on child abuse…
What would have stopped Martin Luther…
Carl Trueman on the road to nowhere…
Can localism restore sanity to U.S. politics?
Doubting Thomas is a story about gratitude,not doubt…
How do evangelical colleges keep the faith?
Big thanks to EricL for the link help…support him at top right.
Jack Deere’s book may bear reading. I have always found him enigmatic. I once tried to access him unsuccessfully but never lost my appreciation for his role bringing me into the renewal with his first two ‘Surprised By’ books.
āLetās talk about your virginity. As far as we are concerned you have taken something that was once upon a time pure and beautiful and youāve made it dirty.ā
From the Virgin Cheerleader story,
If true it is one more striking example of how Baal has conquered Christ in American culture and how we now call good evil and evil good.
The Canaanites have their revenge. It also shows us that a veneer of Christianity smeared over a culture is not the kingdom imperative. New creation means a new humanity not simply a conforming to a majority code. That religion cuts both ways.
Jezebel Yet Lives Dread
BD,
I would strongly commend Trumans videos on the second matter…
you’ve done it again a whole list of links that i’m going to have to find time for…
God called us to be peacemakers, not peacekeepersā¦ yep
Why Christian high schools are filling with atheist studentsā¦ say what?
Dead, dirty, and weakā¦thatās usā¦ NO it’s not! ! !
the whole durn list is peaking my curiousity, but later…
thank you, i think š
A very education-centric Linkathon…tasty and nutritious!
The nytimes Liberty article is soooo biased. Listen, I don’t like the Falwells, or Trump, or any of that stuff either. But the thing they focus on, rapid expansion of the online school, should be celebrated rather than scorned. Liberty was simply ahead of the curve in that realm. Early adopters reap the spoils. That’s how it works.
The article sounds like someone criticizing Netflix because it doesn’t have as many physical DVD’s as Blockbuster did. That’s just not the way the world works anymore. Colleges will compete in that market place or go out of business. Period.
Montana church leaving SBC…
“Fellowship Baptist argues that the conferenceās speakers ‘repeatedly denied the efficacy of the accomplished work of Christ in matters of sin and forgiveness.’ ”
That’s a grave charge. Although I only listened to a Moore video from the conference, I am very skeptical of the charge.
It’s a stupid charge.
It’s ironic that conservative Christians often are vigorous proponents of free speech and religious liberty, but when the speech comes from within their church and doesn’t fit their narrative, they condemn it with slander.
Here’s where that charge comes from:
Moore (and others) are saying, basically, “Racism is a sin. We need to do something about it.”
The response is, “No, Jesus paid for that sin!”
It is really, really stupid. And racist.
“No, Jesus paid for that sin!”
Well! I guess that makes everything all well and happy-clappy! Problem solved!
Amen Josh! It is indeed stupid. And ignorant too.
Of course, Jesus also paid for the sins of abortion and homosexuality…but for some reason that’s not the same to these guys.
Josh,
The Horton article on justice and the church outlines pretty well where I’m at. What do you and others think about Horton’s article?
Which one is the Horton article? Think I’m missing it.
RE: Horton.
On quick look, I think I agree. Certainly, with the ending:
“Where Scripture speaks, the church speaks. Where it presses God’s claims of justice on behalf of our neighbors, we must hear and obey. Yet the church has neither the authority nor the competence to bind its members’ consciences in matters beyond Scripture’s scope.”
I would have to think through some of the particulars, but its a good article.
#12
I thought the article good and fairly balanced, but it does not speak to how the Church is to conduct itself in “extreme” political situations, which might call for some different reflections. Then again, I’ve been reading about Gerhard Kittel (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament)… frightening.
Good article on Evangelical Gnosticism.
#15
I’ve read some stuff about Kittel, too. Good night.
I think it’s a good reminder that any of us can be co-opted by peer pressure and
extreme nationalism to abandon the Historic Faith and exchange it for something
evil.
#17 Bob
Absolutely frightening. I used his dictionary for decades before I knew…
I’m having a hard time with the idea that christian schools are filling with atheist. And what exactly defines an atheist anyway?
I went to eleven years of very conservative Christian education. I believed there was no correlation between attendance and religious status. It was a guess that most where not Interested in things of the Spirit. Of those I knew, some have become religious in older years.
I look at it as a matter of people are people, and you never know what sort of outcome people have.
I had not heard of Kittel before this mention. Interesting read on Wikipedia. Hadn’t used his dictionary – I am sure I saw it in the book stores and although I had / have a large reference book collection I was never compelled to buy it. Looking at the pictures of the 10 volumes I am sure it was too expensive for me.
Seems like a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
#21 Bob
Indeed….
This is quite the quote from the Jack Deere article:
As A. W. Tozer once said, āChristian literature, to be accepted and approved by evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely the same train of thought, a kind of āparty lineā of which it is scarcely safe to depart. A half-century of this in America has made us smug and content. We imitate each other with slavish devotion.ā
#21 Bob
This is a documentary that profiles Kittel, Althaus, and Hirsch… it’s worth watching.
https://youtu.be/d2MD15kt88A
I didn’t even notice that the church leaving the SBC is pastored by J.D. Hall of Pulpit and Pen infamy.
A. I’m glad he’s gone.
B. He can freely be the new Westboro Baptist now.