Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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An Eschatology of Christian Habits
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] I had originally planned on talking about justification in this post, focusing on how the status God graciously gives us is a motivation rather than a goal to achieve. Here, I just want to focus on the goal. To talk about the “eschatology of Christian habits,” is to…
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Lost in Translation
Originally, this was actually two blogs, both hosted on WordPress.com. I then moved the Marturo blog (marturo.wordpress.com) to a self-hosted site (the short lived metamarturo.com) before then settling on the present domain. I then imported by other WordPress.com blog and combined them into one. All the posts that were originally accessible on nathanielclaiborne.wordpress.com are now…
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What’s Missing From The Gospel Commission
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] Initially, even after reading most of The Christian Faith, I was still excited about The Gospel Commission. I really did enjoy Horton’s chapters on ecclesiology and found his perspective interesting even if I didn’t wholly agree with it, so I was looking forward to seeing his thoughts…
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Am I Really A Christian?
Author Mike McKinley previously served on the pastoral staff for Capitol Hill Baptist church before moving to Guilford Baptist Church. This book is actually his second contribution to the 9Marks series having already written Church Planting is for Wimps. Both of these are fairly short books, but that’s just because they get straight to the point…
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Games to Quit
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] Originally I had the idea for this post apart from this series, but it does fit. Think of it like this, as part of reshaping your habits, there may some games you are unconsciously playing in your Christian community that you should probably quit. If they are…
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Jump Start Your Bible Reading Plan
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] If you subscribe to many blogs, you may have noticed that most Christian blog sites appear to follow an unwritten rule that you have to publish a post about bible reading plans some time on or around New Years. This of course is the typical time to…
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Developing A Consistent Prayer Life
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] If you’re like me, you struggle to pray. That may be somewhat surprising, but I have had a hard time establishing a consistent prayer life. Master of theology notwithstanding, a good habit of daily prayer is something I have struggled to maintain. So naturally, that’s a good…
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Reshaping Christian Habits
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] As part of my 90-day challenge, I am trying to refocus on habit building. Most of this actually ends up focusing on habit deconstruction before reconstruction. Since most of the 90-day challenge hinges on this basic activity, I thought I’d post on it a few times…
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The 90-Day Challenge
I’m not particularly overweight, but I have acquired some bad eating habits, and I haven’t seemed to be able to drop the excess around my gut. My goal then is to get down to my ideal weight and maybe even start showing some abs. Ali is doing this as well and has a more or…
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The (Christian?) Movie Formula
This was all over the web a few weeks ago (I got it here). I think I even tumbl’d it myself. I find it interesting because it correlates with a sub-point of my thesis. It may just be me, but when I see this chart, I see an analog trinity (lowercase “t”), who in the face of…
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