‘[Study Bibles] usually are an inadequate replacement for actual study and discipleship’
March 25, 2009
Frank Turk posts ‘A beef about study bibles‘
The Stool
January 23, 2009
One Time Blind
“How Can a Person Grow Spiritually in the Next Year?”
November 24, 2008
That question is answered by five church leaders who are (respectively) Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist – at Michael Spencer’s blog.
This is a first in a series of posts with contributions from this group, whom Spencer has drolly termed “The Liturgical Gangstas.”
“What faith orientated material(s) do you study during the week?”
November 13, 2008
David Porter wants to know:
“1.) Write a post on your own blog and send back a track-back.
2.) Simply leave a comment on this post.
3.) Leave a comment on this blog w/ a link back to your post.”
Peter Rollins explains his latest book
November 8, 2008
… that being The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief
(HT: Emergent Village >> Tony Jones)
[NB: In the video, Rollins is talking about 'heeding' God's revelation -- not 'hating' it. His Irish accent may throw some American ears for a loop.]
On active obedience
October 3, 2008
Some thoughts by TurretinFan at the Alpha & Omega Ministries blog:
The proverbial “Good Samaritan” may feel warm and fuzzy after helping out his neighbour, but even the Good Samaritan is simply doing that which God commands. Thus, even the best mere man who most perfectly loves God and his neighbor can only hope to have a very small number of sins on his account: he can never hope to have anything more than debt to God.
Because of this principle, there is only one source of merit. To use a timely analogy, there is only one $700 Billion bailout plan. That one source of merit is Jesus Christ, the righteous.
If your right hand causes you to sin …
October 3, 2008
Some musings on castration at Out of Ur. No kidding.
Emotional maturity
October 2, 2008
A topic explored by D. J. Chuang.
MacArthur on being soldiers of Christ
October 2, 2008
At the Pulpit magazine blog:
The first mark of a good soldier is the willingness to suffer hardship with the rest of the soldiers. “Suffer hardship” literally means to suffer evil or pain along with someone else. By adding “with me,” Paul assures Timothy that he hasn’t asked anything of him that he wasn’t willing to do. In fact, Paul was writing from a prison cell.
