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  • A Theological Mad Lib (sort of)

    I’ll post some more thoughts on this book in the coming days, but as I was finishing John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God today, he offered a schema for an inappropriate defense of Christian doctrine. It’s in the section covering logic as a tool of theology and is dealing with the informal fallacies…

  • Need to Read 10.01.10

    While most churches may still do altar calls, the Village Church, where I attend, does not. Geoff Ashley explains why. Tim Challies has a helpful review of Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design. Learn about how the fallacy of the beard relates to Glenn Beck, and more importantly, what bearing it has on the current discussions about…

  • Need to Read 9.24.10

    Matt Perman over at What’s Best Next has a helpful summary of the core of Daniel Pink’s Drive, highlighting th e3 components of motivation: Autonomy Mastery Purpose Click through if you’re interested in motivation, or as the title suggests, if you want to find out why you might not like your job. Some other posts you…

  • Need to Read: 09.07.10

    In a kind of follow to the last actual post, Douglas Wilson has some thoughts on Glenn Beck and the problems of his appeals to God: Because Beck is a Mormon, all his appeals to “God” will of necessity be appeals to a place-holder god, a thin, generic god, the god on our money. But…

  • Need to Read 8.30.10

    Most everyday, I go through several RSS feeds in Google Reader and share items that I think are important to read for those of use pursuing the Christian life seriously. I thought it might help to highlight some of those postings here on the blog, and so here we are. Over at Parchment and Pen,…

  • Resurrection: God Saves

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] One thing that makes Christianity unique is that it rests on the truthfulness of a historical event. From a philosophical vantage point, the foundation of Christianity rests on the impossibility of its contrary (i.e. knowledge would not be possible unless based on the authority of…

  • Cross: God Dies

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Much like the last chapter, this chapter is also more or less material from a previous book, in this case, Death by Love. I would thoroughly recommend that book, and you could read more of my thoughts about it here. This chapter starts with a…

  • Incarnation: God Comes

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] In many ways, this chapter is a condensation of Driscoll and Breshear’s other book Vintage Jesus. Having read that previously myself, this chapter comes off as a CliffNotes of sorts. That being said though, it is still a very thorough treatment of the subject. The…

  • Covenant: God Pursues

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Its been awhile, but I should be back on track to finish up exploring Mark Driscoll’s Doctrine. Chapter 6 picks up with what is basically God’s response to humanity’s plunge into sin. Though nothing particularly new to people in the ANE, covenants are not something…

  • Tribulation and New Creation

    [This post is part of the Eschatology series] I’ll try to keep this post from simply being a junk drawer of ideas that couldn’t be treated in the first 3 parts, but it might be hard. I’d like to move on from talking about my difficulties with dispensationalism, and back into eschatology in general. I…