I fixed the audio/video links at the bottom of the article “It’s All About Jesus.” The direct links seem unreliable in a browser (it could be the plug-ins I’m using for audio and video), so I’ve linked the series page, and you’ll have to scroll down to get to part 7. As I wrote in [...]
Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
It’s All About Jesus
Posted in Audio Recordings, Christianity, Faith, Israel, Theology, Videos on February 20, 2012 |
Robert Spencer on Islam’s View of Christianity
Posted in Christianity, Faith, History, Islam, Religion, Theology, Videos on February 13, 2012 |
This is worth watching. The audio quality is bad for the first eight-and-a-half minutes, but it gets better after that. From Jihad Watch: Robert Spencer speaks at Franciscan University, November 2011
Jews for Jesus
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Religion, Theology, tagged Bible on January 24, 2012 |
Dennis Prager wrote: What particularly annoys Jews is not the existence of converts but the existence of “Jews for Jesus.” To most Jews, this is a misleading label, because people who come to believe in Christ should call themselves Christians, not Jews. Evangelicals and Romney This is contrary to the Bible, despite what some Jews [...]
Tony Cooke on Redemption
Posted in Christianity, Theology on October 13, 2011 |
Tony Cooke wrote: There is a God-ward side of our redemption (what He did for us) and a man-ward side (how we respond to what He did). The book of Ephesians illustrates this perfectly. Chapters 1-3 can be summed up in a single word: Done. Those first three chapters of Ephesians emphasize what Christ has [...]
Gurus, Groupies, and Gullibility
Posted in Christianity, Religion, Theology on August 10, 2011 |
Tony Cooke wrote: Not only does all of this involve knowing the Bible and being led by the Holy Spirit, but it also involves a skill known as “critical thinking.” A few of the many definitions of critical thinking include: “Critical thinking is reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe and [...]
Grace, Repentance, and Confession
Posted in Christianity, Theology on May 11, 2011 |
My pastor told me about this article, and I’m glad he did, because I probably wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Tony Cooke wrote: Repentance occurs when we awaken to God’s glorious potential for our lives. In the light of God’s goodness and good intentions toward us, we recognize the deficiency of our selfish perspective and [...]
God and Tornadoes
Posted in Christianity, Theology on April 29, 2011 |
Just popping in to say hello and to comment briefly on the tragedy in Alabama. From CNS News: Seventy-three-year-old Frank Frierson sat on a porch and marveled at the damage. “It was God up there letting us now [sic] that he is the boss, what he could tear up and what he could destroy,” he [...]
The Holiest of All, Part 12
Posted in Andrew Murray, Books, Christianity, Theology on March 28, 2011 |
I’m way behind on blogging this book (the last post was almost three months ago), but I do have a way of finishing things — eventually. From The Holiest of All, chapter 22, by Andrew Murray (emphasis mine): The word of the quotation (Hebrews 3:7-11) first point us to what is the great privilege of [...]
For the Love of Bad Writing
Posted in Miscellaneous, Theology, tagged Literature on March 7, 2011 |
Laura Miller wrote: Until recently, hardly anyone considered why some readers might actually prefer cliches to finely crafted literary prose. A rare critic who pondered this mystery was C.S. Lewis, who — in a wonderful little book titled “An Experiment in Criticism” — devoted considerable attention to the appeal of bad writing for what he [...]
The Pope vs. the Bible
Posted in Christianity, Israel, Theology on March 3, 2011 |
The Pope says this: Israel’s prime minister has thanked the pope for rejecting the long-held charge that the Jewish people were responsible for killing Jesus. In a forthcoming book, Pope Benedict XVI explains that there is no biblical and theological basis to the ancient claim, which helped fuel anti-Semitism. The Second Vatican Council made the [...]
Turning Away from God
Posted in Christianity, Politics, Society, Theology on January 21, 2011 |
From CNS News (emphasis mine): Fearing a possible court challenge, Hawaii’s state Senate has voted to silence the daily prayer offered before each session began – making it the first state legislative body in the nation to halt the practice. A citizen’s complaint had prompted the American Civil Liberties Union last summer to send the [...]
The Holiest of All, Part 11
Posted in Andrew Murray, Books, Christianity, Theology on January 1, 2011 |
From The Holiest of All, chapter 21, by Andrew Murray (emphasis mine): How often does it happen—both after times of revival and special effort, and also in the ordinary work of the church—that those who ran well for a time get so entangled in the business or the pleasure of life, or the literature, politics, [...]
The 20 Days of Christmas
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Theology on December 23, 2010 |
Here’s a poster from a “Christmas is evil” campaign that an Islamic group in the UK is running: UK: Muslim group launches “Christmas is evil” poster campaign The 20 “evils” listed on the poster are: STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) Debt Rape Teenage pregnancies Abortion Raves Claiming God has a son Blasphemy Exploitation Promiscuity Night Clubs [...]
Jeremiad Update
Posted in Christianity, Theology on December 22, 2010 |
Nine days ago I wrote this: I feel an enormous jeremiad coming on, but I’m going to wait a day—or a week—and see if it can be diverted into something less severe. I finally calmed down. The solution? I stopped watching Christian TV. There are some good programs on Christian TV, but a lot of [...]
Merry Christmas
Posted in Christianity, Theology on December 13, 2010 |
From CNS News: “I think it’s the epitome of what is going wrong with Christianity. What this church has to understand is that Christmas is not a Christian holiday,” he said. “It is a stolen holiday and it is one of many holidays where a god was said to be born in the winter solstice. [...]
Woe unto thee…
Posted in Christianity, Theology on December 13, 2010 |
I feel an enormous jeremiad coming on, but I’m going to wait a day—or a week—and see if it can be diverted into something less severe.
The Holiest of All, Part 10
Posted in Andrew Murray, Books, Christianity, Theology on November 21, 2010 |
From The Holiest of All, chapters 17-20, by Andrew Murray (emphasis mine): The only way for us to come from under the power of Satan and death was to lay off that fallen nature over which they had power, to come out of that sinful life by dying to it, and, in dying, to be [...]
The Holiest of All, Part 9
Posted in Andrew Murray, Books, Christianity, Theology on November 14, 2010 |
From The Holiest of All, chapters 14-16, by Andrew Murray: There was no way to come out of the fallen nature—with the power of self and self-will ruling it—but by entirely dying to it; suffering anything rather than letting it have its way. His (Jesus’) allegiance to God was absolute. He proved to us that [...]
Monomountogamous
Posted in Photography, Theology on November 10, 2010 |
I woke up this morning thinking that it was going to be just another ordinary day, and right off the bat I find out that I’m monomountogamous. New term proposed: monomountogamous Fortunately, Romans 1 doesn’t have anything to say about being monomountogamous, so I guess it’s OK.
The Holiest of All, Part 8
Posted in Andrew Murray, Books, Christianity, Theology on October 31, 2010 |
From The Holiest of All, chapter 13, by Andrew Murray: His death was proof of His resistance to sin and its temptation, of His readiness to give up life rather than yield to sin. The one view is that of substitution, in other words, Christ doing what I cannot do. The other view is that [...]
