Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Problem with the Prosperity Gospel
Last Sunday during Pastor Josiah’s sermon, he mentioned rather emphatically that the prosperity gospel isn’t biblical. He didn’t elaborate on it since it wasn’t a main point in the text. It did however get me thinking about an ongoing class discussion we were having about this time last year. In my Preaching I class, the problem…
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Reading Group Warmup: Apologetics to the Glory of God
To get the ball rolling on the reading group idea I mentioned last Friday, we’re reading John Frame’s Apologetics to the Glory of God. Part of this is because it’s a shorter book, and a good introduction to apologetics in a presuppositional vein. The other reason is that we’ll be reading John Frame’s Doctrine of…
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What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?
[A review copy of this book was provided by New Growth Press and The B&B Media Group] A little over 8 years ago, I read a book that was a total game changer. It was for my last class of the second year program at Word of Life Bible Institute, and the book was When…
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A Lit! Inspired Reading Group
At this point, I’ve probably strung you on long enough. I would have let you in on this yesterday, but I was too busy eating turkey and my wife’s amazing mashed potato casserole. As promised from the last post, today I’ll give you the rest of the details on this idea: I decided we would…
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Lit! Reading With Priorities and In Community
[A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Monday, we examined the first part of Tony Reinke’s Lit! Yesterday, we examined the second part. Today, as promised, I’d like to go into a little more detail and explain what I’m changing after reading Lit! A perennial problem for me since leaving Dallas and graduating has been narrowing…
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Lit! Some Practical Advice on Book Reading
[A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Yesterday, we looked at part 1 of Tony Reinke’s book Lit! Today we’ll dig into the part 2 and see what kind of advice he offers us readers. For space sake, and so I don’t take too many tangents explaining my own approach on some of the advice Reinke gives,…
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Lit! A Theology of Books and Reading
Tony Reinke, Lit: A Christian Guide to Reading Books. Wheaton: Crossway, September 2011. 208 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! Tony Reinke, formerly a journalist, but now a theological researcher, writer, and blogger, has written a book that I feel like I should have written. You see, I’ve spent…
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And There Is One God (Part 2)
[This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] Yesterday I gave you the first part of a detailed description of God’s attributes. Today, here’s the second half: God in action is good, holy, just, true, wise, love, merciful, personal, and one. The divine nature in no way constitutes a fourth member, but rather is what all three person of the Godhead share…
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And There Is One God (Part 1)
[This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] Now that we’ve talked about the persons of the Trinity, let’s turn to the attributes for a couple of posts. Here’s the first half: God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, each being fully God, and there is one God. The…
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A Triperspectival Mission of the Church
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Over the past several days, several prominent reviewers have turned their eyes to Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert’s What is the Mission of the Church? Ed Stetzer offers a round up some of the criticisms before giving his own take on the book (to which DeYoung and Gilbert…
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