Dr. Don Carson gave a series of guest lectures at Reformed Theological Seminary about the New Perspective of Paul. While quite academic, I highly recommend it for those who know nothing on the topic and who may encounter it in school or in some church they visit. You can find it on the web by going to itunes.rts.edu or searing for D.A. Carson in the iTunes store and clicking on “New Perspective on Paul” under iTunes U.
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Isaiah 40:8 says that while, “the grass withers, flower fades, but the Word of the Lord endures forever.” For a friend of mine, that Scripture has been deeply personal.
Jonathan Ramsey, a member of my campus ministry and a good friend of mine, began having seizures about a year and a half ago due to a psychological condition called conversion syndrome. For many months, Jonathan struggled with depression, doubt and physical pain due to the recurring episodes. It has been awhile since his last seizure and since then he has been stepping up his blogging.
I’d encourage you to read some of his posts, especially one titled “The Valley of the Shadow of Death, Part 2″. My friend is honest about his responses to sin and his circumstances. But the common theme throughout his posts is grace, what got him through and what always gets us through.
From around the Internet, here are a few quick hitters to check out:
- James Thayer pointed me to this article about a man who went from inmate to evangelist in South Carolina.
- C.J. Mahaney explains the benefit of having a tone-deaf pastor lead worship.
- Two more good things from Al Mohler. The first is at the SBTS website, a panel discussion on N.T. Wright and the doctrine of justification. The second is on his blog, an post titled “Why Moralism Is Not the Gospel.”
- Appropriate for this blog: Mike Plewniak asks if technology is beneficial to Christians. An oldie, but a goodie.
- Purgatorio blog does not just joke but asks a serious question about this church with a sign outside saying “Islam is of the Devil.”
- Came up in Google search for Christianity: a girl who converted from Islam to Christianity flees home, then seeks mediation after her family threatens to kill her
- Forbes.com listed the top 10 megachurches in the U.S.
Statistically, no. But as Al Mohler writes in a post, this nation’s pluralism looks more like Hinduism than Christianity.
“Without doubt, Americans have been growing more and more accepting of plural and relative understandings of truth,” Mohler writes. ” A tragically large number of those who identify as Christians have been drinking from the same wells of thought (as Hindus).”
His post draws most of its material from Lisa Miller’s article in Newsweek.
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Nicole Whitacre posted a new resource on Monday, an online edition of Matthew Henry’s “Method of Prayer.”
“His method, quite simply, is to ‘pray the Bible’ and so the website is full of prayers composed almost entirely of Scripture,” Whitacre wrote.
You can choose from eight different translations to read the Scripture quotations in, and in 2010, the site will be adding nine languages in additional to English for Henry’s writing, including Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
2) Official site of Biblica, the non-profit translators of the TNIV
2) CBMW articles on TNIV
- http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-7-No-2/A-Brief-Summary-of-Concerns-About-the-TNIV
- http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-7-No-2/Translation-Inaccuracies-in-the-TNIV
3) JBMW articles on biblical manhood and womanhood:
- http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-13-No-2/Equal-in-Essence-Distinct-in-Roles
- http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-13-No-1/Why-Together-for-the-Gospel-Embraces-Complementarianism
4) Mars Hill pastor Rob Bell on his use of TNIV at his church
5) John Piper and Wayne Grudem’s book on complementarianism
6) Chris Ryburns: “Effortless Egalitarianism” (a post on Gordon Fee and egalitarianism)
A funny video I found on Josh Harris‘ blog the other day. Good application and funny illustration of Proverbs 3:7.
A couple of weeks ago, Desiring God’s blog pointed me to the movie “Collision”, which comes out in October on DVD to those of us not living in New York or LA. The movie is a documentary about the tour atheist Christopher Hitchens and Christian Douglas Wilson did to promote their book, “Is Christianity Good for the World?” While the movie is sure to be good, you can read their exchange in a series of articles they did for Christianity Today.
My favorite quote from Wilson: “But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true athesim. One: there is no God. Two: I hate Him.”
“God and God alone who makes certain that a portion of His Word falls upon good ground.” – R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries has a magazine called TableTalk named after the dinner discussions of one of my historical heroes, Martin Luther. Recently, R.C. Sproul wrote an excellent article on the topic of “by grace alone.” At times this topic can become a split issue among Christian brethren, which is unfortunate. Sproul explains the common Reformed stance well with a humble and Christocentric mindset. Check out the article entitled “Grace Alone” in TableTalk, it will encourage you to form your own cross-centered response to saving grace.
Here is a short clip from a sermon by Matt Chandler given during the Desiring God 2009 Pastor’s Conference.
A question popping up all over America is, “How should we preach the recession?” This is what Chandler says:
