Are you in love with Jesus? Many of today’s Christian music artists claim to be—as do millions of Christians who sing lyrics like “Let My Words Be Few“:
You are God in heaven.
And here am I on earth.
So I’ll let my words be few.
Jesus, I am so in love with You.
But should Christians be in love with Jesus? In a blog post entitled “Jesus, I’m NOT in Love with You,” Professor John Stackhouse answers absolutely not and considers expressions like these inappropriate and unbiblical.
Sam Storms discusses Satan’s schemes (2 Cor 2:11) and activities with a view to equipping the church to “be aware of them and fully prepared to respond.”
Make no mistake: Satan has a plan. Although sinful, he is not stupid. He does not act haphazardly or without a goal in view. He had “designs” for the church at Corinth and he most surely does for your congregation today as well. In Ephesians 6:11 Paul referred to the “schemes” (lit., methodia, from which we derive our word “method”) of the Devil. He has cunning and wily stratagems not only for the individual believer but also for the corporate body of Christ.
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the day the whole world knows as 9/11. Consequently, there are reflections and discussions circulating on blogs and news sites.
Here are some of the things I’ve come across:
John Piper writes about “Three 9/11’s We Need to Know,” 9/11/2001, 9/11/1857, and 9/11/20??. Abraham Piper points to several other resources by John Piper relating to 9/11:
I posted this on my personal blog last night and thought it was too good not to repost here.
Reclaiming the Mind Ministries has just announced the launching of their online Theological Library, which contains hundreds of ETS papers from the last five years. The papers are (1) free, (2) fully searchable with selectable text for copying and pasting (most of them),1 and (3) available for viewing online2 or downloading and viewing as PDFs. There’s a wealth of helpful material there that I’m sure you’ll want to take advantage of!
Nearly 800 people clothed in white were baptized in the street in front of the United House of Prayer for All People (Wikipedia) in Washington, DC—with a fire hose. The tradition is over 80 years old.
“We used to use the Potomac River,” he said, but the church’s founder, Charles “Sweet Daddy” Grace, decided to use a fire hose instead, “because a baptism involves sprinkling,” Whitner noted.
What started out as an interchange between Wayne Grudem and John Piper developed into a discussion involving 9Marks’s Mark Dever and Aaron Menikoff. The dialog—no longer really a back-and-forth debate—continues.
Abraham Piper raises the question of whether Baptists should consider paedobaptists as unrepentant sinners, which seems to be the necessary conclusion if, from the Baptist’s perspective, non-first-generation paedobaptists are failing to obey the Scriptural teaching to be baptized after conversion. It would seem logically that, if they are sinning unrepentantly, they are destined for hell.
Wiley S. Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA has created quite the stir by encouraging members of his congregation to pray imprecatory prayers against two men who threatened the church’s nonprofit status.
The problem originated with Pastor Drake’s writing a letter—on church letterhead—to his congregants making known his support for former Arkansas governor and current presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (Wikipedia).
Last week we highlighted the back and forth between Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the subject of baptism—particularly if Baptists should allow paedobaptists into membership.
The discussion was spurred by Grudem’s rewriting his section “Do Churches Need to Be Divided Over Baptism?” in his Systematic Theology. Piper didn’t like the changes that Grudem made. Grudem responded to Piper, holding his ground (even though his very own wife was on Piper’s side!).
My purpose here is to examine the Bible’s teaching on the sovereignty of God and the prayers of man with the goal of answering the question, “If God is sovereign, why pray?” This will be done by briefly defining what it means that God is sovereign and then by offering five answers to the question of why people should pray.
By now I’m sure everyone is aware that 19 South Korean evangelical Christians are being held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The original number was 23, but 2 have been killed and 2 released.
Ted Olson at the Christianity Today Liveblog noted yesterday the Times Online report that the South Korean government has stopped at least two military operations to rescue the hostages. One of those operations involved plans to kidnap family members of the kidnappers to put pressure on them to release the hostages.
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