I could barely go a day without posting something else from my new blogosphere obsession, Mike Wittmer. He offers a summary of why he wrote his new book, Don’t Stop Believing, and explores the controversy of original sin, in particular. If you’re interested, check out his post… and if you’re not interested, SHAME ON YOU! [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Wittmer… Again
Posted in Book Reviews, Emergent, Emerging Church, tagged Emerging Church, Original Sin, Theology on November 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Advent Eve
Posted in Advent, Video, tagged Advent, Video on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow morning, Advent begins. This is the something a lot of us have been looking forward to for a while now, so to kick it off, here is a video on The Advent Conspiracy.
The Lennox Files
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Cultural Issues, Darwinism, Video, tagged Atheism, John Lennox, Morality, New Atheism, Science on November 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
John Lennox, professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, has recently appeared in a series of interviews on the web. Dr. Lennox is a brilliant guy (Hello! Oxford!) and has recently made a much bigger name for himself through his involvement in debates with the “new atheists” (not their term, to be sure). The most highly [...]
A Litany of Thanksgiving
Posted in Holidays, Liturgy, tagged Litany, Prayer, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In observance of thanksgiving, here is a wonderful prayer from the PCUSA Book of Common Worship (p. 402-404). The Book of Common Worship can be a useful devotional tool (even if you’re not Presbyterian!). It also has many more prayers and litanies that are useful and other special occasions. [Just as a note for those [...]
Preparing for Advent – Why and How?
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since this blog will be consumed by Advent in the coming month, many (yeah, right) of you might be asking yourselves why you should celebrate advent and/or how to do so.
First, let me point you to my church’s music blog, where they offer 5 reasons why you should celebrate advent.
The second answer is not as [...]
Mike Wittmer: “Machen on McLaren – A New Kind of Liberal?”
Posted in Cultural Issues, Emergent, Emerging Church, tagged Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, ETS, Liberalism on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Wittmer (who I’ve been reading more of lately) recently posted his paper from an ETS breakout session called, “Machen on McLaren: A New Kind of Liberal?” The article is very informative and helps us see how the challenges that come with postmodernism are not new, and in fact, are something the church has been [...]
Read Through Your Greek Text in a Year
Posted in Greek, New Testament, tagged Greek, New Testament on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If your anything like me, you probably lack consistency… in a lot of areas. One of my own major shortcomings (at least in the area of academia) is having a set plan to further discipline myself for things I’ve already begun to learn. For instance, I try to read passages out of the Greek NT [...]
More of Things to Come
Posted in Advent, Update, tagged Advent on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I know it’s a bit ambitious to talk about things that will be happening, while I’m not actually doing anything, but I’ll try anyway. I’m in the middle of reading a couple books that I’d like to review. The first is Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer, and the second is A Friendly Letter to [...]
