As part of our continuing examination of issues in evangelicalism, today we present this interview with a renowned business leader. William Sola oversees franchises all across our country and around the world. * * * Reporter: Hello, today I’m with William Sola, great, great, great grandson of Jack Sola, founder of the Sola Bakery Company.Continue reading “Let Them Eat Cake!”
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For Memorial Day: A Classic Michael Spencer Essay
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer My friend Mark is a soldier. A Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where he, in his own words, was “proud to be a Marine at a time my country needed my service.” I am proud of him,Continue reading “For Memorial Day: A Classic Michael Spencer Essay”
What I Like about Lutheran Baptism
By Chaplain Mike Michael Spencer was a Southern Baptist. A reader recently wrote and asked what I, as a Lutheran, believe about baptism. I thought you might like to have a chance to hear how I responded. Before I talk about baptism, let me first say that I am a “Lutheran in progress.” Denominationally, IContinue reading “What I Like about Lutheran Baptism”
MLJ and the Holy Spirit
By Chaplain Mike On this week leading up to Pentecost, we are listening to some prominent evangelical voices about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We are doing this in order to understand the variety of views within evangelicalism, and ways the church has dealt with these differences. We also want to give our IMContinue reading “MLJ and the Holy Spirit”
Gospel Definitions
By Chaplain Mike UPDATE: I have added an additional sentence to point #2 in my definition. Over at Rachel Held Evans’ blog, she is running a post with responses to the question, “What is the Gospel?” I encourage you to visit her site, read the entries, and enter the discussion. She asked me to participate,Continue reading “Gospel Definitions”
D. L. Moody and the Holy Spirit
By Chaplain Mike Over the years, I have had intermittent contact with teachers, staff, students, and alumni from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. MBI has been known as a conservative evangelical/fundamentalist school, with dispensational theology and an emphasis on missions. The school, of course, is named after the great American evangelist D.L. Moody (1837-1899). Moody’sContinue reading “D. L. Moody and the Holy Spirit”
Tozer on the Holy Spirit
By Chaplain Mike Today, as we look forward to Pentecost Sunday, I present one of last century’s great advocates for the Holy Spirit in the evangelical church: Dr. A.W. Tozer. In this excerpt, with characteristically potent and plain talk, Tozer simultaneously rebukes the church and stimulates our hunger to know more of the Holy Spirit’sContinue reading “Tozer on the Holy Spirit”
A Disputed “Justification” Text
By Chaplain Mike Since we’ve been talking about N.T. Wright lately, and examining some Scriptures together, I thought it might be timely to look at one text that became a point of controversy in the debate about justification between the more traditional Reformed view and the so-called New Perspective on Paul (NPP), at least asContinue reading “A Disputed “Justification” Text”
The Beatitudes: Virtues or Proclamations?
By Chaplain Mike I am working through N.T. Wright’s exhilarating book on Christian growth and character, After You Believe. I hope to post a full review soon. First, I’d like to interact with one small aspect of something he presents. Wright’s chapter on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) communicates some wonderful insights aboutContinue reading “The Beatitudes: Virtues or Proclamations?”
Are We There Yet?
By Damaris Zehner Last Sunday, the Bible readings included John 13:33-35 and Revelation 21:3-4. An odd conjunction struck me. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I amContinue reading “Are We There Yet?”
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