UPDATE: Tim Challies has just posted an amazing bit on the inner-workings of church marketing. If there are doubters out there about how we are perceived by the Publishing interests, this will sober you up. Required reading. Some of my long time readers may remember that in a long-forgotten fit of exuberance, I swore offContinue reading “General Joyce Conquers The World! (Impressions from my bookstore visit.)”
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Questions about the journey: If you started at a different place, would you still be here?
In all of my recent “conversations” with my reformed friends and detractors, I’ve had one question that I’ve really wanted to ask. It occured to me as we were talking about my acceptance of my Roman Catholic friends as fellow Christians, but it really goes to a certain kind of perspective on your own journey.Continue reading “Questions about the journey: If you started at a different place, would you still be here?”
The Spiral of Despair in Christian Hedonism: Steve Brown's Take on John Piper
One of my unmet goals on the internet has been to start a blog devoted to a critical discussion of the theology of John Piper. I love Piper and his work has a huge place in my journey, but I am ever more convinced that his “Christian Hedonism” would greatly benefit from rigorous assessment. ThereContinue reading “The Spiral of Despair in Christian Hedonism: Steve Brown's Take on John Piper”
A Question For The Scholars In The Room
In my study of the New Testament, I’ve collected a few questions that have stayed with me. One of them fascinates me endlessly, and I have never read an answer that seemed sufficient. Perhaps the readers of Internet Monk would like to take a swing at this pitch, or direct me to a source thatContinue reading “A Question For The Scholars In The Room”
Baseball and Rabid Dogs of Evangelism
I’m serving as interim baseball coach for OBI’s team this week, and will be tied up for at least another week. Blogging will be rare, and possibly nill. Thanks for the patience. I will post some iMonk 101 reruns if one strikes me as appropriate. Hat tip to the Reformissionary for the best example ofContinue reading “Baseball and Rabid Dogs of Evangelism”
The Questions Belong To All Of Us
It’s not often that I use IM as a place to point my readers to other blogs, but I will make a much-deserved exception for Jordan Cooper’s deft and on-target analysis called “The Threat That Is The Emerging Church.” You must read the post and consider his major points because he is starting to makeContinue reading “The Questions Belong To All Of Us”
Ink Blot Church
God is like a Rorschach test. You know, the ink blot test, where you look at an image that really presents nothing coherent, and you describe what you see. Kind of like looking at clouds and talking about what you see.
Apologized and Revised: Looking For the Elusive, Mysterious "Reformed, Calvinistic" Tent
Just before I left for work this morning, I made a several discoveries: First, I discovered that “c.t.” in the current essay’s comment thread is a person who has been feeding off my web-sites for several weeks now. Second, I discovered that this same person was the source of the original “Reformed/Calvinistic Tent” quote thatContinue reading “Apologized and Revised: Looking For the Elusive, Mysterious "Reformed, Calvinistic" Tent”
The Prodigal Project
For the last three months, I’ve been leading a study of the story of the prodigal son in a men’s Bible study here at OBI. We met twice a week, and I simply took the study whatever direction was interesting to me. It’s been a lot of fun, and I have a lot of materialContinue reading “The Prodigal Project”
Retire the Chimps! Help the Media Find the "Real" Evangelicals!
Dear Media types. Main Stream. Television. Christian. Internet. Whatever. This post is for you. It has come to my attention that, in the past decade, you have paid increasing amounts of attention to conservative Christianity in America. In particular, recently, since Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the 2004 “Values Voter” presidential election,Continue reading “Retire the Chimps! Help the Media Find the "Real" Evangelicals!”
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