I think I first noticed something was wrong with our religion when I saw an episode of 60 Minutes about the remnants of the Branch Davidians in Waco. Yes, they’re still there. In the video, the new leader’s daughter was playing a Taylor and singing a Tim Hughes song. After that I could never sing that song again.
It has been said, “Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right, whereas morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.” As an acquaintance of the Schatz family this truth is hugely important to me. Christopher Hitchens produced the following for Vanity Fair: Do not condemn people
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If you’d like to get a taste of what N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God is about, the Biologos Foundation has posted a six-part serialized adaptation of a paper by Wright which covers the topics he also addressed in the book. (Biologos has an interest in this subject because of how the matter of
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As part of the current discussion on the origins of the Fundamentalism/Modernism controversy, I present the following paragraph from Charles Augustus Briggs’s address at Union Theological Seminary in 1891, The Authority of Holy Scripture. The third barrier is the authenticity of the Scriptures. The only authenticity we are concerned about in seeking for the divine
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This is the kind of reaction we should have whenever we think of Matthew 18: “O Lord, grant that I feel more amazed that I am forgiven for my wrongs than that I have been wronged.” – John Piper via Twitter Sent from my iPhone
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If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who
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The church where we have providentially found ourselves is accepting elder nominations through the month of May, even as the pastor teaches a series on the character of a godly leader as laid out in Scripture. The order of worship handout actually has some lines at the bottom where you can write down the names
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I came across this in my morning devotions: I perceived that whatever God does endures forever, nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what
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