Linkathon!
Are conservative Christians “religious extremists”?
Steve Brown on crosses and crowns…
Coptic bishop seeking support from evangelicals…
Janet Mefferd on the reproach of unqualified pastors…
Driscolls new church opens on Easter…
Baptists and a pilgrim identity…
Olson responds to Pipers attack on Arminianism…
Your spiritual crisis has 214 likes…
Noahs Ark park gets state tourism money…
Is GFA spending donor money on reputation repair?
What should we think of Jesus miracles today?
Five reasons to stop using Timothy against women…
Stop using the word community unless you mean it…
Wenatchee the Hatchet on the Driscoll lawsuit…
A closer look at exit polls and the evangelical vote…
Ten things you need to know about human trafficking…
Gold from Carl Trueman…evangelicalisms last waltz.
Big thanks as always to EricL for the link help…support him at top right.
Great list! Thanks.
Thank you, Jean…and EricL again.
He saves me mucho work…
Thanks Michael and EricL for compiling the links each week. I look forward to it each Tuesday! I don’t have the patience or time to read each link, but I am sure many of us appreciate your work. I also like that you include links to pages that are a bit older.
Cool! An article referencing Gardner-Webb University! The Baptists / Pilgrim article is talking about a book by a GWU Divinity School professor. I did undergrad at GWU, met my wife there, and now live about two miles down the road.
The divinity school is way too liberal for me. But that’s a good article that brings up up solid points.
Druggers gets back on TV. We know the family is a mess but the network continues to milk the cash cow . Ugh.
On the unqualified pastor link…
If I were to do word association on John MacArthur, the first word that comes to mind probably wouldn’t be “unqualified”, but the word that did would probably be one that disqualified.
That being said, I’m not sure that I can quite get behind the thought that he, and the men being criticized in the article should just go silently sit in the back row of some church somewhere. I don’t think they necessarily need to be in leadership, but they (excepting possibly Furtick) are probably men who would have a lot to offer the body outside of the role of pastor.
We had an AIG spokesman do the message at our church last Sunday. He plugged his books and DVDs and gave a lecture against evolution. I never heard the gospel. Sigh
are conservative Christians religious extremists? … i hope so … pretty good article and the Boeing link off of it was interesting 🙂
The John Macarthur quote on Furtick was from 2012. (and yeah, Furtick is using it to market a new book.)
I wonder why Mac would tell that whole crowd that Furtick was unqualified to be a pastor? The two had never met. Furtick has an Mdiv from Southern Seminary. I just wonder his reasoning for saying that?
Josh, I hadn’t come across it before, perhaps MacArthur was using a bit of thin slicing. I will admit that I don’t have much exposure to Furtick, but what little I do has presented him as a grandstanding jack ass.
I am also if the opinion that you could take seminary classes from now until judgement day and still be unqualified. U would guess that it had a lot more to do with perceived character than education. On the other hand, maybe MacArthur just wants Furtick to “get off his lawn”.
it was written 9 years ago and while i am definitely not against denominational loyalty, i must say amen to “How God ruined church for me…”
Josh,
Because Johnny Mac is a modern day Pharisee. I guess I should add, IMO. ?
Listen, Most of you know the history. Furtick and I were good buds. We disagreed over how church should be done and parted ways around 7 years ago.
BUT!!!
He is educated, ordained, a faithful husband, loving father…I just wonder what qualifications Mac was thinking of.
Nonnie, your mention of AIG brought me to mind of 1 Corinthians 12:23, I then quickly free associated to plumbers for some reason… I guess maybe I’m just thinking that the body could use a pair of overalls where AIG is concerned.
Em, that link is probably the best up there. Read it yesterday, and had a pretty hearty amen response as well.
Probably because Mac wears a suit and Furtick wears a t shirt.
That’s what I was thinking, too. Now I could list a hundred reasons that I disagree with Steven, things I don’t think he should do…all that. But a glib “unqualified” towards someone you’ve never met is almost unbelievable.
Very good story about the political divisions in evangelicalism…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/03/15/evangelical-christians-are-enormously-divided-over-donald-trumps-runaway-candidacy/
I think it’s funny all the discussion about division of the evangelicals. I wonder in the Jewish community if they are distressed that their own community is split between Hillary and Bernie?
#18- while i’m done thinking for the day, there’s some good thinking to think on on that link
Investigating the idea that Shem was Melchizedek
It has quite a history in rabbinical literature
and among Bible scholars; Jerome, Aquinas, Luther
The idea has some merit.
What say ye?
BD, do you mean Shem, himself or a descendent of? … also, is it important to try and identify him? or just one of those mysteries that just might be solvable for curiosity’s sake?
hope you get feedback in any case as i am … curious (by both definitions, i guess 🙂 )
Why is Trump’s support so resilient?
Em,
Shem lived long enough to be a contemporary of Abraham.
I am writing about its importance.
I think it is significant.
I am indeed asking if Shem was Melchizedek …making the latter name a title.
His support is resilient because he’s the first nativist who has crushed those who would challenge his views as being racist, unintelligent, or any number of other pejorative adjectives.
He is singing the song of a people who believe they have had a foreign boot shoved down their throat and silenced.
He harkens back to an age of cultural homogeneity that many desire to return…but in reality it neither can, nor will.
Trump’s popularity comes from labeling people; terms he uses in public for public figures that anonymous minions wish they could say and be heard. His ideas are disparate, oxymoronic, and outrageous–but ballsy. He’s an insider posing as an outsider. He’s an entertainer first, a statesman last. He is a fabricator, story-teller, name-dropper, revisionist, BILLIONAIRE. Republicans love a success story, especially when the winner has to overcome long odds.
Evangelicals are so starved for some attention and affirmation that when Trumph courted their vote, they largely piddled themselves with glee.
BD,
Can you post some links about Mek being Shem?
Trump’s resiliency isn’t that hard to understand. Just look at what happened to Angela Merkel in Germany’s recent election.
Trump has promised to deport illegal aliens and build a wall.
I don’t believe that is even possible, however, some people will believe just about anything certain politicians tell them at during political election cycles.
Just think, “Hope and change”. That pretty much sums up the gullibility of the general electorate.
#24-BD your information is indeed very interesting… hope to hear/learn more
Well 🙂
“He harkens back to an age of cultural homogeneity that many desire to return…but in reality it neither can, nor will”
being the closest thing to a right wing evangelical that posts here – i would say that the above observation is very insightful (as opposed to inciteful)
Trump is willing to stick his neck out and say there’s a problem: i’m mad as hell and i’m not going to take it anymore – originally i thought he was a Democrat plant to make certain that Hillary had no serious competition, but anymore, i just think we have a problem – every which way…
if you think ” He’s an insider posing as an outsider. He’s an entertainer first, a statesman last. He is a fabricator, story-teller, name-dropper, revisionist, BILLIONAIRE.” …?…
take an honest look at the Clintons … he doesn’t have the back-up (the REAL money that someone mentioned way up the thread) that the Clintons have access to and probably doesn’t how to play the game as slick as Hillary, but he does know the game
and, honestly Trump is about as virtuous as any of the rest of them who play the game… it is a game – a game with rules and he does know the rules
P.S.does any intelligent person really believe a physical wall will solve the mass migration now in progress from the east and the south to the northern hemisphere of this globe? it would be naive not to suspect that there’s a whole lot of nefarious sneaking back and forth up here on our northern border and it’s not just grizzlies – no crowds of immigrants to hide in, but lots of caves and trees…
when history moves like this… God is moving… this is a year to sit back and watch the show, if it continues….
No, “christian conservatives” are not religious extremists….but they do get close sometimes in some areas like beating their kids for Jesus and some other backwards things with some of their male patriarchy bullspit.
But, I’d take a state full of christian conservatives over a state full of muslim conservatives any day….they wouldn’t toss gays off buildings and wouldn’t make women wear burqas and wouldn’t stone women to death or throw acid in their faces or blow themselves up for Jesus etc.
Trump is the by-product of Obama and the Democrat Majority overreaching and being jerks to the Minority and their constituents.
Trump is what you get when one side over does it….the Political Pendulum always ends up swinging back the other way in an equal and opposite direction.
If you want to blame anyone for Trump…blame the Divider-in-chief in the White House.
Christians are not extreme enough.
Okay, giving up the no comment rule for a minute to recognize this amazing comment:
“Christians are not extreme enough.”
I love Xenia – almost always the one I agree with the most here.
“What say ye?”
Waste of time. It doesn’t even remotely matter for anything other than Theological master-you-know-what
mastur?
Thank you Michael. I always love your links.
I don’t agree with Carl Trueman on all issues, but I absolutely love reading his articles. He’s pretty much always spot on.
@ Josh the Baptist,
From your comment, I’m guessing this is the first time you’ve heard of Furtick. I’m not a huge fan of MacArthur, but truth be told, “unqualified” was probably too nice of a word. Do a bit of poking around on the web regarding Furtick.
Sorry for the three posts in a row. Oops….sorry Josh the Baptist, my bad, totally my bad.
To answer your question about F, I’m a bit dumbfounded as to how to answer, much as I would be if you asked me to describe whether or not water is wet. There’s so much material on F that I wouldn’t even know where to start. Lest you accuse me of not answering, I’d say anything on The Wartburg Watch or on Professor James Duncan’s blog (pajamapages dot com) should suffice.
Alan,
Thank you for the kind words…