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  • Reflections on Controversy

    Rather than push ahead with other topics, once again it seemed like it might be better to ruminate a bit over the dialogue that I had with Pelagian7 over the weekend. You can read the comment string here if you would like, as it will make sense of the following commentary on it. For starters,…

  • Further Thoughts on the Gospel

    It was inevitable that while reading Michael Horton’s follow up to Christless Christianity, titled The Gospel Driven Life, I would run into more thoughts to enhance the post from yesterday. In it, Horton captures the idea of 1 Corinthians 15 in an more overarching manner and describes it as this: The Good News is that…

  • Thoughts on the Gospel

    Recently, as in yesterday, Rob Bell made another attempt at “tweeting” the gospel. Now I say this not to pick on Bell (for reasons why, see the last idolatry post) but to use it as a starting point for discussing the gospel. Given Bell’s last attempt, this is actually an improvement and does come quite…

  • Idolatry: Pharisees (B)

    [This post is part of the Idolatry series] In following the last entry, we can now try to connect the dots to a potential manifestation of modern day Pharisees. To answer the question that ended the last post, regarding what symbol of our tradition gets functionally worshiped,  my contention here is that for us today, this is…

  • This is me procrastinating…

    This update comes in the form of lists. So let’s get right into it. Let’s start with books that either I’m currently reading or recently finished. Go! Books you should read: Vintage Jesus/Church by Mark Driscoll Total Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament by John Walton…

  • Change is in the Air

    Well to quote New Found Glory, “it’s been a summer.” I stretched the limits of my brain with Hebrew Exegesis and then after a few weeks to recover headed off to Florida to get married. After a few overly stressful days, the wedding day arrived and everything came together beautifully with everyone pitching in and…

  • Idolatry: Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo

    Some of you might possibly remember an album by the band MXPX that bears the same name as this blog (minus the idolatry part). It was released back in 1998 and for me was one of the albums I learned to play guitar to. The title comes from a slang term referring to “selling out.”…

  • Idolatry: An Introduction

    [This post is part of the Idolatry series] Before going too much farther, I should take a moment to give credit where credit is due. Props Most of the things I pointed out about Waking the Dead in the previous 4 part “Myth of the Good Heart,” were not necessarily my own private assessment of the book.…

  • The Myth of the Good Heart: Theology A

    [This post is part of the Idolatry series] In researching and writing the last post, it was at times very perplexing, like trying to untangle a gordian knot of philosophical ideas embedded deeply into a text. I go back and forth trying to decipher how explicitly John Eldredge has absorbed the conglomeration of ideas that are present…

  • A Rather Vague Introduction

    [This post is part of the Idolatry series] Let’s be honest. Reading through pages and pages of my philosophical ruminations can sometimes be enlightening, but on the balance, its hard to find a practical take-a-way from a lot of it. Right? Some of that is endemic to the nature of what I sometimes write about,…