Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Mission as God’s Glory
From Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus: God’s mission, then, is writing his story through what he treasures. Since his glory is precious to him, his story centers on the declaration of his glory. His glory is reflected in his story through the very unfolding of the story as he is disclosed for who he…
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Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus
Bill Clem, Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus. Wheaton: Crossway, September, 2011. 240 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! As a great tandem book to Community, Re:Lit also recently published Disciple: Getting Your Identity from Jesus. In this book, Mars Hill Pastor Bill Clem introduces readers to some of the basic truths…
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The Gospel or The Coalition?
Over at The Pyromaniacs blog, Phil Johnson raises an interesting concern about the whole Elephant Room controversy. In his conclusion, speaking of a video James MacDonald released, he says: But in the above video, he repeatedly insists (in rather dogmatic terms and with an emphatic tone) that all ER participants are indeed his “brothers.” That,…
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The Holy Spirit is God
[This post is part of How the Trinity Changes Everything series] Of the three posts so far, this one is the shortest, but don’t take that to imply it’s less important. On the Holy Spirit, I said: The Holy Spirit is both God and a distinct person in the Godhead, not merely the acting of God in…
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The Son is God
[This post is part of How the Trinity Changes Everything series] In the last post, we looked at God the Father. In this post, we shift to God the Son. Here’s what I had to say: From the beginning, the central tenet of belief in Christianity is that Jesus Christ is divine. Jesus Christ, the Son…
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October’s Top 10 Posts
Looking back over last month, here’s the posts that generated the most interest: 10. Halloween Reading 9. Pumped Up Kicks Dubstep Video 8. The Goodness of Inequality 7. Muse: Absolution 6. Book Review: Community 5. Inception Within Inception 4. Celebrating Hell in the Name of Contextualization 3. Being Reasonable About Science 2. The Elephant in…
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Jesus + Nothing = Everything
An alternate title for this book could have been “Gospel Mathematics” but then I bet few people would have wanted to read it (I probably would have still anyway). The premise is fairly simple: Jesus… plus nothing… equals everything. Tchividjian explains: It’s a statement that’s set up as an equation, of course, but what this…
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Halloween Reading
The best word to describe how I feel about Halloween is “ambivalent.” I wasn’t allowed to trick or treat when I was little (and neither was Ali) and now as an adult, I find that I just don’t care about Halloween. But, being that today is Halloween, and many other people, Christians and otherwise celebrate…
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The Father is God
[This post is part of How The Trinity Changes Everything series] The first several posts in this series are from a paper I had to write in seminary. With only one semester under my belt, I was tasked with offering a single page definition of God. I could use end notes to support my formal…
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SeaWorld, Slavery, and Lawsuits for Animals
Because sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, I thought this was worth highlighting for some thought. PETA is at it again, and has decided to sue SeaWorld for violating the 13th Ammendment’s ban on slavery. The plaintiffs in this particular case? Tilikum and Katina, Corky, Kasatka and Ulises, all of whom happen to be killer…
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