header image

Archive for May 30th, 2008

God is Love… What Else?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy.: Sola Amor, or “Love” Alone: An Emerging Gospel:
When we decide that God is “more loving” than any other quality, we are engaging in a-Biblical, speculative theology. Despite its popularity in the postmodern church (and in sympathetic churches), speculative theology is precisely that: speculation. Due to its dependence on [...]

Baseball and Biblical Manhood

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Randy Stinson, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, has been running a great series on how he “uses the game of baseball in the lives of his two sons to build Christian character and cultivate biblical masculinity.”
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
I’m not at all a sports fan, so you know this must [...]

Oprah and a Jealous God

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Mark Coppenger writes on the jealousy of God, in the context of Oprah’s problem with it.
So, then, how could you feel comfortable with a jealous God? Well, a little more theology could help. When you learn that God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, then you realize that the Lord cannot be afflicted with insecurity, suspicion [...]

Spurgeon on Sin

Friday, May 30th, 2008

“That henceforth we should not serve sin.” - Romans 6:6
Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into his den? Hast thou [...]