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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Pastors on Pedestals
The first danger I want to highlight is that of the celebrity pastor who is ultimately so big as to be practically beyond criticism. Some pastors are just so successful as communicators that, frankly, they are placed on a pedestal … Continue reading
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How Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Reveals Our Idolatry and Contempt for the Gospel
Few Christians would openly defend viewing a show like Rock of Love, but who doesn’t get teary-eyed watching the final moments of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? Never mind that it’s a spinoff of a show about radical plastic surgery, EMHE … Continue reading
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How Reality TV Reveals Our Self-Righteousness
To me, the problem with our television viewing, like our movie viewing, has less to do with content than it does with our hearts. In our tribe of evangelicals, the conversations tend to focus on lust and sexuality. But there’s … Continue reading
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Why Lausanne III, and All Ecumenical Assemblies for That Matter, Are a Waste of Time
As always, Carl Trueman is spot-on in this critique of ecumenical declarations. Here are excerpts of his essay: Thomas Jefferson was no orthodox Christian but I have a deep suspicion that he should take significant responsibility for one of the … Continue reading
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Why Postmodernism Is a Dead-End Road
The French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the poster child for postmodernism, probably thought he was clever when he refused to call himself a postmodernist. He preferred to call himself a man of the Enlightenment, albeit a new Enlightenment, one that was … Continue reading
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A Most Eloquent Exposition of the Glory of the Cross
The Glory of the Cross is understood when we see that the impaled and immolated Christ is not simply a helpless victim, rather that the Cross was the instrument by which our Lord wielded his Almightiness, through the Eternal Spirit, as the weapon of … Continue reading
The Difficult Challenge of Teaching the Bible in an Academic Setting
Teaching in a theological climate is a very lonely and sometimes daunting enterprise. Even with the most absorbed and friendly class, you are all alone there in front. What you say will inevitably be passed on—sometimes garbled and distorted. When … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Pastoral Ministry, Theology
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The Ugliness of Man Apart from Christ
What sort of freak then is man? How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious, judge of all things, feeble earth worm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe. Blaise Pascal, … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
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How Good Science is Often Misused, Misreported and Misinterpreted
Every few months a major news story breaks about a new scientific discovery that will either change life as we know it, or that disproves once again something Christianity teaches. So, Christians live with the ever frustrating task of explaining … Continue reading
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Why Pastors, and Not Professors, Are the Answer to Biblically Illiterate Congregations
Those of us who teach Bible and theology in Christian colleges and seminaries learn quickly to live with chastened hopes of making a significant impact on the church in America today. I am well aware that any influence I might … Continue reading
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