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Sunday, August 17th, 2008“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness, and sanctification center, where flawed people place their trust in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he has designed. The church is messy and inefficient, but it is God’s wonderful mess — [...]
Icarus Falls
Monday, August 11th, 2008Resisting the urge for schadenfreude, I won’t say much about John Edwards, except to commend John Hood’s Carolina Journal piece. Hood is generally astute and accurate about NC politics. He nails this one. An excerpt:
Did you watch Edwards’ Friday night appearance on “Nightline”? My guess is that, programmed against the Olympics, it [...]
What Preachers Do All Week
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Sometimes my children ask in good faith, “Dad, what exactly do you do all week?” Howard Hendricks answers:
It is not too difficult to be biblical if you don’t care about being relevant; it is not too difficult to be relevant if you don’t care about being biblical. But if you want to be [...]
Zipper Jihad (Not!)
Monday, July 14th, 2008Phil Johnson has some good thoughts on the West’s inability to accurately define the War on Terror. A snippet:
As a matter of fact, the conflict that dominates world news today has everything to do with religion. The aggressors have all been fanatical adherents to one religion in particular.
Here’s a clue: It’s not the Amish.
The One Who Arms with Armor
Monday, July 14th, 2008In our gathered worship on the Lord’s Day, we typically read an Old Testament lesson if I’m preaching from the New Testament and vice-versa. Yesterday, since I was preaching from Ephesians 6:13-18 on the full armor of God, I chose Psalm 56 as the morning lesson. David expresses his confidence that God hears him and [...]
The Senator and Me
Monday, July 7th, 2008At Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh tomorrow morning, mourners will gather to worship God and celebrate the life of former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. 25 years ago this week, my parents dropped me off at a boarding house in Washington, D.C. so that I could work in his office there for the rest of [...]
Noticed in a store yesterday
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Called to Be a Cool Kid?
Thursday, May 29th, 2008“To me, the church should not aim to be ‘real’ as an end. The church is there to proclaim truth. Trying to be hip and cool and real does a disservice to the church. We’re not called to be successful. We’re called to be obedient, even if they don’t come…. If somebody doesn’t find you [...]
Traditionless oligarchies
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Piper writes today of Chesterton on the occasion of his 134th birthday. This gem from Orthodoxy caught my eye:
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
Never Caught His Name
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008I never knew his name until he died yesterday.Earl Hagen wrote and performed the first song to which I knew every note — the theme to “The Andy Griffith Show.” He died at 88 on Tuesday.
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