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The Gospel Coalition: Why We Have Been Silent about the SGM Lawsuit

sifilings — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:29:33 +0000

The Gospel Coalition: Why We Have Been Silent about the SGM Lawsuit

Connected Truth: Abiding with Eternal Fact

Paul Henebury — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000

In The Great Divorce a repentant liberal tells a stuffy and impenitent bishop that if he will rethink his pretensions about religion, he will take him to meet “Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facts.” The cleric disdainfully turns down the offer, preferring to remain under the delusion that “God” and “fact” do not dwell on the same plane of objectivity. It is a strange deception indeed which constructs a grand array of “facts” and suspends them over a bottomless chasm, but that is what sinners do with facts. They encounter them; they label and categorize them; but they attempt to ground them in the ether of a wholly impracticable worldview.

That is how I was before I met “Eternal Fact.” My dealings with Truth were occasional and, from my point of view, impersonal. And it was this impersonal view of Truth which gnawed away at me; for impersonal conceptions of Truth eventually depersonalize everything—even the viewer. They may seem impressive to our eyes for a while, but just as an attempt at landscape painting may please us until we set it alongside a Constable or a Monet, so truth without “the Spirit of Truth” gradually begins to look like a paltry thing. Truth (capital “T”); the kind that “shall make you free” (Jn. 8:32), springs forth from the “I AM” (Jn. 8:58).

Les Ollila in conference at Colonial Hills Baptist Church: "Our schedule also includes what will no doubt be a very interesting Q&A. "

sifilings — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:39 +0000

Colonial Hills Baptist Church Crossroads Conference

The Fatal Flaw of the Charismatic Movement

SharperIron — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:57:45 +0000

Video by R.C. Sproul

China’s Brutal One-Child Policy

sifilings — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:04 +0000

China’s Brutal One-Child Policy

Hobby Lobby's fight against birth control mandate up for federal appeal

sifilings — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:11:55 +0000

Hobby Lobby’s fight against birth control mandate up for federal appeal

Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics

sifilings — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:13:49 +0000

Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics

Book Review - Kingdom through Covenant

Mathew Sims — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

by Stephen J. Wellum, Peter J. Gentry

Crossway 2012

Hardcover, 848 pp.

Peter Gentry & Stephen Wellum are seeking a middle way between covenant theology and dispensational theology. As a covenant theology loving Christian I found their critiques even-handed and thoughtful. Anyone interested in developing a theology that fits within the big picture narrative of Scripture would benefit from Kingdom through Covenant.

They first define biblical theology as:

…concerned with the overall message of the whole Bible. It seeks to understand the parts in relation to the whole. As an exegetical method, it is sensitive to literary, historical, and theological dimensions of various corpora, as well as to the interrelationships between earlier and later texts in Scripture. Furthermore, biblical theology is interested not merely in words and word studies but also in concepts and themes as it traces out the Bible’s own story line, on the Bible’s own terms, as the plot line reaches its culmination in Christ. (p. 33)

After establishing the ground rules for their hermeneutical method, they offer a history of both dispensational theology and covenant theology. If you are interested in the history of these interpretations as well as the finer points these chapters are gold. It provides a concise survey and accurate comparison of both systems.

"Somewhere, right now, George Orwell is smiling"

sifilings — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:59:47 +0000

DOJ on ‘Gays’: ‘Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval’

Sanctification, Homosexuality and the Church

Mark Snoeberger — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000

In this post my goal is to utilize the issue of homosexuality as a case study to demonstrate that the “Jesus + Nothing = Everything” approach to sanctification is not merely an academic wrinkle, but an error of such prodigious import that it threatens the very essence of the Christian church.

American culture has apparently reached a tipping point when it comes to homosexuality. It’s OK to be homosexual now. In fact, those of us who aren’t homosexual are apparently supposed to trip all over ourselves in our affirmation of homosexuals to make up for all those years in which American consensus stood against this vice. Blah, Blah, Blech. I’m disappointed, but not particularly devastated: this kind of thing really is an inevitable result of the non-foundational, democratic, and relativist worldview that America has been cultivating for decades.