Sayers, Mark. Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience. Moody Publishers, 2016. In Disappearing Church: From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience, Sayers seeks to show that the “Western church’s favored strategy of cultural relevance” will not hold up in the “Third Culture” of post-Christianity and must be replaced by strategies that promote resilient gospel-centered, orthodox faith (14). In […]
Read MoreTolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, “Second Epilogue: A General Discussion on the Historian’s Study of Human Life, and on the difficulty of Defining the Forces that Move Nations. The Problem of Free Will and Necessity” (Norton Critical Edition, 1867). In the second epilogue to War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy argues that describing the “life of nations,” otherwise […]
Read More“Lord, your faithful love reaches to heaven, your faithfulness to the clouds.” Psalm 36:5 As I read this psalm, I’m tempted to imagine myself flying in the clouds like Superman. However, seeing myself in the clouds obscures and dulls the effect of this psalm on my soul. No. I must discipline my imagination and put my feet […]
Read MoreAs part of their “How to Read the Bible” series, Tim and Jon, creators of the popular BibleProject videos, explore the nature of “apocalypse” in the Bible highlighting that it is primarily about God revealing, and not about the end of the world. This is a great starting point for anyone reading apocalyptic sections in the Bible such as Daniel or Revelation, […]
Read MoreWe are inundated with news…much of it bad. It is easy to take news for granted, but a little reflection on the nature of news and its profitable place in our lives is good. Author and culture commentator Andy Crouch offers the compelling argument that what we need is less news, not more. He then provides practical guidelines to discern […]
Read More“Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him. In spite of all that, the Lord did not turn from the fury […]
Read MoreThe Briefing with Albert Mohler This June 24, 2020 podcast discusses: PART 1: How Should Christians Understand Structural Sin and Systemic Racism? PART 2: What Is Liberation Theology? The Definition of Sin Is at Stake PART 3: What Should the Christian Response Be to Systemic Racism?
Read MoreUltimately, Douthat’s solution strikes me as one more version of the resistance that he rightly demonstrates to have failed in the Graham/Shaeffer era.
Read MoreAs a parent delights in their children, so also the Lord delights in you.
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