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Because I said so (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Justin Taylor shared the following on his blog : ______________________________ This is a sobering statistic : In fact, fewer than 5 percent of churchgoers actually tithe 10 percent of their income; the average, according to numbers from Empty Tomb, a Christian research group that puts out annual reports on church giving, is now 3.4 percent, or 21 percent less than what dust-bowler counterparts gave...
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Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Some might be interested in signing this petition to fight FOCA . See Justin Taylor's post for more info.
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Good Brownie (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Justin Taylor has the scoop on the abortion rates during the presidential administrations of William J. Clinton and George W. Bush. There's a steady stream of folks who continue to perpetuate an urban legend about the abortion rates in the US. (Kept alive, no doubt, by the fact that Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Barack Obama have all cited it.)The idea is that because of Bill Clinton's...
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Blogotional (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Justin Taylor posted some back-and-forth over a post by Tony Payne. Payne's thesis:...Even if we acknowledge that there will be ‘gospel’ things happening all over the place in church, it is also important to say that evangelism is not the purpose of Christian assemblies. It is certainly not their focus. In the New Testament, churches are characteristically the fruit of evangelism, not its agent.
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Ruminations By The Lake (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
There are some blogs that I check every once in a while to see what's going on and there are others (like Justin Taylor 's) that I check more than once a day. A new blog that just popped into the blogosphere is The Daily Scroll , that is fast becoming a "more than once a day" check. The proprietor of the blog is Chris Ross, a PhD student (?) at Edinburgh whose focus is in church history. You may be...
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Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Justin Taylor recently linked to an interview with Brit Hume , regarding his upcoming semi-retirement from the FOX News Channel. Here are some of Hume's comments: I thought about the three G’s: God, granddaughters, golf....And since my son died, I have been, really, I felt rescued by God and by Christ. I have an intense desire to pursue that more ardently and have it be a bigger part of my life than...
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Intellectuelle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
I was glad to see both iMonk and Justin Taylor express constructive criticism of John Piper's statement on the election, although they didn't express concern over some of the parts that concerned me. More about that in a minute. I...
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Founders Ministries Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Dr. Steve Lemke , Provost at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and featured speaker at this week's " John 3:16 Conference ," recently published an article in The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry ( vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 2008), entitled, " What Is a Baptist? Nine Marks that Separate Baptists from Presbyterians ." I read the article shortly after it came out and was greatly disappointed....
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Ben Witherington (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
(pictures, except the first one, courtesy of Justin Taylor and the folks who produced the ESV Annotated Bible, which certainly has the best illustrations to date in a study Bible) One of the major debates in NT Studies in the past 50 or so years is when and where synagogues, which is to say purpose built religious buildings, began to crop up in Israel or the Diaspora. At one point there were numerous...
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Pyromaniacs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
A short diatribe in thirteen points by Phil Johnson said everything I wanted to say about the election months ago, and I wasn't planning to say more. Then Justin Taylor posted an interview with Scott Klusendorf, in which Klusendorf said this: Voices within Christendom will assert that evangelicals have spent too much time on politics, with little to show for it. What's really needed, so the claim will...
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Because I said so (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The stuff below was posted today by Justin Taylor on Between Two Worlds blog . It is my plan to attend this conference as my one "big" conference next year to challenge me to grow as a pastor. There are other great conferences, but this one is calling my name. I know Ovidiu is going, is anyone else who reads this blog going? __________________________________________ The Gospel Coalition recently relaunched...
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Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Justin Taylor weighs in. Also worth reading is Robert P. George's article on when human life begins. (The Westchester Institute's "white paper" mentioned in the article is accessible here .)
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internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Over the last two years, I’ve raised the issue of the need for positive, level-headed, analytical and appreciative critical engagement with the theology of John Piper. I believe such a need is pressing, particularly as more and more future pastors and ministers take in Piper without any awareness that other solid evangelicals may appreciate him [...]
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THE CAPRANICA (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Justin Taylor (a former assistant to John Piper) gives some of his kind and thoughtful thoughts in response to John Piper’s recent comments on this year’s election. Between Two Worlds: Piper, Politics, and Abortion: A Few Thoughts
