Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
A recent Angus Reid study has revealed some interesting (even if not surprising) things about what Canadians value. Here are a few highlights. 96 per cent of respondents say having enough free time to do what they want is very important or moderately important to them. Achieving career success (89%), volunteering (74%) and having children [...]
I don’t believe in homophobia. I know there are people who don’t like homosexuals. I know there are people who are incredibly uncomfortable with the thought of being “hit on” by a gay person. I know there are people with all kinds of bizarre ideas about what “causes” one person to be homosexual while the [...]
Much has been made in other places about the cheesy PoMo quasi-evangelical catchphrases such as ‘dialogue’, ‘story’, ‘journey’, ‘romance’, etc. I would like to comment here on the term ‘conversation.’ A ‘conversation’ is apparently when more than one PoMo gathers, and they begin to speak. They pile up one non-descript cliché (see above for some [...]
I don’t know why it continues to amaze me, but it does: God is concerned with purity. He hates sin and will not tolerate the arrogance and abomination of sinners in his assembly. Of course, this makes sense, given that he himself is “holy, holy, holy“; altogether separate, pure, and entirely other from us. As [...]
My good friend, Jon Warner, has a post over on his blog that got me thinking. In it, Jon questions the “labels” we live under as a result of “hero worship” in the Christian faith. He argues that even those “great saints” who have gone before us have had fatal flaws in their character which [...]
God is big… infinite, in fact. It only makes sense, then, that a finite being like me can’t understand everything about God. One thing the emergent *cough*neo-orthodoxy*cough* crew likes to point out is that we can’t put God in a box. Generally it’s phrased in a ‘witty’ sarcastic statement intended as a ‘humble’ rebuke of [...]
Words of wisdom from Spurgeon, writing against (ironically enough) proponents of ‘modern thought’ who would ‘fiddle’ with doctrine, always looking to change the theology of the church. Our ‘modern thought’ gentry are doing incalculable mischief to the souls of men, and resemble Nero fiddling upont the top of a tower with Rome burning at his [...]
My good friend and cousin, James, wonders: “What if we abandoned the religion of Jesus for the religion of the Bible or the religion of Christianity?” On the other hand, I can’t help but wonder… What if a group of people became disaffected with the Jesus-followers who came before them and decided that they knew [...]
Rielly’s comments to my last outbreak of praise of Christ’s church got me to thinking. Do I love the ‘C’hurch or the ‘c’hurch? Which is it that holds my affections? As I’ve reflected on the reasons why so many people seem so eager to ‘re-invent’ church these days, I’ve discovered that I have much in [...]
For anyone who has ever read Brian McLaren… funny stuff indeed. that is not my blog: Be afraid. Be very afraid… _uacct = “UA-1898297-1″; urchinTracker();
Gay activist Chad Allen, star of “The End of the Spear” (soon-to-be-released) was on Larry King Live the other night with Al Mohler and others. The topic of discussion was “gay love” (as brought up by the film “Brokeback Mountain“) and “gay marriage” (in the United States). Mohler was fantastic, as always, and very biblically-centred. [...]
There is considerable overlap between McLaren’s concerns and mine. I too would like to see less doctrinal wrangling in the church and more love. Like McLaren, I think it’s important to learn from traditions other than our own (43-67) and in controversy to be both more winsome to those who disagree with us and harder [...]
A couple of different events are converging at once, prompting this post. One of which is some recent reflections I’ve had on narrative theology (most recently, Justin Taylor brought out the connection between narrative theology and emergent/emerging). The other series of events that leads me to these thoughts is the series of sermons we find [...]
Justin Taylor did this better back in July. I recommend reading that post over mine. That being said, I couldn’t help but notice some serious irony the past few days as I’ve been reading. As Taylor noted, it seems that whenever emergent-types are criticized, they respond with (a) “you hurt my feelings,” and / or [...]
You all know her. She’s the beauty queen who, for some reason, won’t admit to being beautiful. Some people think she’s fishing for compliments, others think she’s got self-esteem issues. In reality, false humility is just annoying. If you’ve got no reason to think you’re ugly, why insist on it when the evidence is otherwise? [...]
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