some thoughts

Conversations about how Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility mesh can get pretty heated sometimes. Most of us have learned that not just from experience, but also from history. Many distorted views such as Pelgianism and semi-Pelagianism [what’s that?] on the one side, and (the even more harmful) fatalism on the other, have really wrought […]

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Don Carson’s PBS interview on the emergent “conversation” is worth a read–he’s said what I wasn’t able to articulate a few months back about Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz.
(HT: Justin Taylor)

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For any potential church planters, or anyone curious about the subject of church polity (leadership structure, government, etc.), Sovereign Grace Ministries has an excellent little read on the subject available here.

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Question 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?
Answer. That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who, with his precious blood, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the […]

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I have always wondered how all the different denominations were related…

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This is worth a read, given that discussions about abortion are front and center again after O’Connor’s resignation. Scott Klusendorf of prolifetraining.org offers some suggestions on how to keep the real issue the real issue in pro-choice/pro-life conversations.
(HT: Just Taylor)

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I’ve just finished two books; John Murray’s Redemption Accomplished and Applied, and N. T. Wright’s What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?.
I found Wright’s book to be very interesting, though deeply flawed on justification. Wright is a very clear and engaging writer, and is obviously knowledgable on the […]

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