“For every one man who reads the Bible, one hundred men will read you and me.” D.L. Moody
Given the gender political incorrectness of Moody’s statement, he still makes a startling observation: Christians not only have a Bible; they are the Bible to many people. Where would old D. L. get a thought like that?
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Posted in Theology on Mar 25th, 2008
“God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken [...]
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I’m reading Bishop Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Way (rev. ed. St Vladimir’s Seminary Press: 1998).
Ponder this:
“God alone is noun; all created things are adjectives.” (page 45)
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At the National Pastors Convention, N.T. Wright made mention in passing the book Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul. I had only read two books by Ellul—The Subversion of Christianity and The Humiliation of the Word. And I benefited from both.
We live in an increasingly violent world and I have been conditioned by a [...]
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UPDATE: John Piper has clarified his writing quoted below on his blog “Desiring God.” I noticed, however, that John Piper did not address his use of the verb “excommunicated.”
I am grateful for Piper’s clarification, but do not agree with his idea of theological homogeneity at a higher educational institution (like a college or seminary).
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Did you ever try to put a too-small fitted sheet on a mattress? You usually struggle to get 3 corners on tight but when you try to get that fourth one, you find yourself wrestling an alligator! Soon all the corners are bare again and you collapse in a sweat.
I think a lot of Christians [...]
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