Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New City Catechism iPad App
Just downloaded this earlier in the week and so far it looks like a great resource! If you’re interested why we would need a new catechism, here’s Tim Keller’s explanation. Also, as it says at the end of the article, “Starting next week on October 22, you can join the one-year campaign to delight in…
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50 Essential Strategies For Every Writer
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The Worst Thing Ever Put In An Offering Basket
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Hearing The Old Testament: Learning To Listen
A couple of weeks ago, we started looking at Hearing The Old Testament: Listening For God’s Address. I gave you a brief overview of the book and the initial essay by one of the editors, Craig Bartholomew. I previewed somewhat the next section of the book called “Learning To Listen.” In it, we are treated to…
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Why There Is No British Joel Osteen
Somebody asked me recently whether Osteen and Hinn were big in the UK. My answer was simple: no, not at all, nothing like they are here in the USA. Why is that? came the follow-up, to which I replied: They simply wouldn’t work in the UK because the idiom is all wrong; the British do…
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Carl Trueman’s Problem With The New Left
Most of us have come across those evangelicals who, in reaction to the Religious Right, like to parade the fact they they vote Democratic in a kind of schoolboyish “Aren’t I naughty?” kind of way. It’s often an empty gesture, a kind of theological vegetarianism; vegetarians do something that costs them nothing, but my, oh…
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5 Kinds of Biblical Theology
Last week, I told you about Graeme Goldsworthy’s Christ-Centered Biblical Theology. Over this past week though, I’ve been reading more on the subject and have dove into Edward Klink and Darian Lockett’s Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice. You can look forward to a full review early next month, but in the…
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Imagery In The Psalms
Psalm 23 has been particularly cherished in Jewish and Christian spirituality, though it is most associated with funerals. Its preciousness derives in part from its lyricism and metaphor. One cannot tie down any aspect of some concrete situation that its author had in mind. Everything is imagery. The consequence is that readers can directly access…
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Expressing Anger In The Psalms
The attitude of the psalms and of the martyrs is that when people resist God and persist in oppressing other people, eventually God must punish them for their wrongdoing and free their victims. But such action lies in God’s hands, not in ours. We trust God to take action; and “it is an act of…
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How To Build A Theological Library
There comes a point when you shift from randomly collecting books that catch your eye to intentionally gathering resources to form a working library. For me, this point came during my last semester of seminary. Partly because I didn’t know where I was moving when I graduated, and partly because I knew that being a…
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