by | Feb 22, 2011 | Bible
Post Series on 1 John 2:7-14: How Jesus Made the Old Commandment New (1 John 2:7-8) Love as the Litmus Test of Genuine Faith (1 John 2:9-11) Envisioning the Beloved Society (1 John 2:12-14) John’s words in 1 John 2:9-11 are hard, and they should give every...
by | Aug 22, 2010 | Bible, Church, Culture, History, Theology, Worship
Jonathan Fitzgerald chronicles an increasing trend among evangelicals: frequent conversions to Catholicism. He writes: Croslow’s interest in Catholicism began over six years ago when he was a sophomore in high school. At the time, Croslow’s Midwestern evangelical...
by | Oct 22, 2008 | Bible, Church, Culture, Theology, Worship
Last May, I wrote a post that suggested that in heaven all the redeemed might speak our individual languages, rather than learning some universal, heavenly language. I was thinking more about this thought this morning, and, being in the process of reading gobs of...
by | Oct 9, 2008 | Books, Church, Theology
Does anyone doubt that it is preferable for people to be drawn to worship God by teaching rather than forced by fear of punishment or by pain? But because the one type of people are better, it does not mean that the others, who are not of that type, ought to be...
by | Oct 1, 2008 | Bible, Books, Theology
Augustine took the view that the Church should advocate in the secular realm on behalf of the wicked, that governments might not punish the wicked for what they deserve. This inspired a letter from someone claiming that to do so would, in effect, give approval to the...