It’s been over two years now since I posted The Granola Gospel.
Nothing has changed. The people who refused to “eat real food,” still refuse. And they are dying. In one case, physically, as well as spiritually.
Wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Issues Etc., the best program on Lutheran radio, was apparently cancelled yesterday. I found out about this, not through the usual channels I have about such things, but from James White this morning. Here’s all available information at this point, from YouTube:
Update: there’s a lot of rage about this.
Next in Hebrews 3 we come to a section which implores us to enter into our rest. Strangely, I have seen a few commentators take the result of this argument in Heb. 4:9 and claim that this passage supports the ongoing requirement of Christians to keep the Sabbath (in some sense that includes resting [...]
I just saw this over at Jeremy Pierce’s weblog. I hope he doesn’t mind if I crash the party.
1. What translation of the Bible do you like best?
I like the ESV best, the NASB(95) as a close second, and the TNIV third.
2. Old or New Testament?
God forbid I’m a closet heretical Marcionite (although that [...]
A touching essay by Matt Jenson: On Viewing a Body. A beautiful intersection of theology and “real life.”
Tim Keller does the best-ever-attended “Author Talk” at Google. (HT: Challies.)
Good review of the whole “princess” fad in evangelicalism today. (HT: Challies.)
James White put a short (3-3/4 minute) but powerful presentation up on YouTube. He shares three commonly misused verses, one each by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals and how those Scriptures should be properly understood. Yet another awesome resource from Dr. White.
From C.H. Spurgeon:
“Salvation is of the Lord.” — Jonah 2:9.
Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of the Lord.” If I am [...]
Pastor Dave Harvey has a series of YouTube videos on his book, When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage. Start here for the introduction to the book. Then go here (1), here (2), here (3), here (4), here (5), here (6), here (7), and finally here (8).
Update: [...]
Eric Meyers, from UHL’s awesome Jesus-tomb-debunking blog:
I was shocked that the near universal scholarly consensus that the Talpiot tomb could not be the Tomb of Jesus was ignored by the press. In a surprise move Simcha Jacobovici addressed the group at the closing session and made special mention of the speech of Joseph Gat’s widow [...]
Josh Moody via Justin Taylor: “To be influenced by Edwards means, above all, to live a life of worship in which, instead of worshipping our work, working at our play, and playing at our worship, we radically and truly understand that the greatest experience and joy of life is found in God and him alone.”
Wow. Justin Taylor announces Challies’ new book. People question his credentials. Steve Camp suggests that Tim is just looking for his fifteen minutes of fame. Justin blasts Steve. Frank Turk and Phil Johnson step in. Challies begins to respond. Challies’ pastor endorses the book (in apparent response to [...]
Shabir Ally is debating Dave Hunt. Are Muslims going to start going after low-hanging fruit again?
This was a bit surprising. I was directed to this interview about the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which I had been given to understand was just another one of the recent, really good translations (alongside ESV and NASB95). But this interview is making me reconsider.
Problems:
Dr. Blum’s very first response, starting with “Well, the [...]
T4G ads. Very funny stuff. Loved the picture of Al Mohler.
From Transformed by Truth, an out-of-print booklet by somebody who helped shepherd the Worldwide Church of God out of their cult beliefs:
When you start carefully reading Anglo-Israelite literature, you begin to notice how it generally depends on folklore, legends, quasi-historical genealogies, and dubious etymologies. None of these sources proves an Israelite origin for the peoples [...]
Mohler has a lot to say about Pullman and His Dark Materials (the trilogy of books that starts with The Golden Compass, just coming out to theaters). (Also, see our new poll about this on the sidebar.)
From a 2004 sermon by John Piper (sorry for the lengthy quote, but it sets the stage):
Second, individuality is valued in Christ. Look at verse 5 again and focus on the second half of the verse: “So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”
One could ague that Paul’s [...]
Daniel at Doulogos has a long (not unreasonably long, it’s a tough subject to discuss in many quarters) post on particular redemption (aka “limited atonement”) that is pretty good reading, particularly for those who don’t believe in that particular point of Calvinism. Read the whole thing.
The following is from a newsletter I recently received from an organization (which will remain nameless) which purportedly focuses on preaching the gospel to the Lubavitchers or Chabadniks (the emphases were not added by me but part of the newsletter):
However within the darkness of the 600,000 Lubavitcher community (that I have written to you about [...]
From the Council of Trent:
“If anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification the guilt is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant sinner, that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged either in this world or in purgatory before the gates of [...]
Turk: “I think many people are simply looking for something which has never existed in the history of time and space, and our expectations of others are too high and of ourselves are too low. That is: we want to find a church that makes us holy and perfect rather than seeing that Christ [...]
On a conservative LCMS website:
By 2005, Premillennialists will be as scarce as hens teeth. Their emotional, revival-driven, cultish worship will fade into oblivion with them. They will disappear like the Pilgrims after Christ didn’t return in 1666.
(I think he mostly means dispensational premillennialists, but I don’t wish to put words in his mouth.)
Unfortunately, this prophecy [...]
A snippet from an email conversation I was having earlier this morning:
You know, it’s easier to love the sinners than the Pharisees, but it’s easier to manage the Pharisees than the sinners.
