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Dave Black warns us today against the cult of the speaker. (With permission I’ve extracted the relevant portion as a post at JesusParadigm.com since Dave’s blog doesn’t allow linking to a specific post.) Considering what we’ve heard recently about megachurches creating satellite campuses that receive the message from the senior pastor on the main [...] … at All Things New. Thanks to Deb for hosting! As an ex-SDA who is now Methodist, I just have to share this video:
Now my experience amongst Methodists is that most will just shrug their shoulders about worship on Saturday. They get a little more tense about soul sleep. I have encountered a few Methodists who are like the one in the [...] I rarely post a quote from a book I’m editing, but this one struck me today. It’s from the forthcoming book The Church Under the Cross by William Powell Tuck. Here it is: Jesus Christ has called us to a way of life which demands sacrificial living, and this call is still an offense [...] It appears he had his atheist father-in-law baptized after death. Interesting! I think we should respect people’s decisions as they made them while they could still communicate with us. On the other hand, it suggests Mitt Romney really does believe what he claims–about his faith at least. I think she has two excellent points, the first about the danger of thinking of oneself as a celebrity (evangelical or not!), and the second about the value of structured prayer. I’d add a note on the value of structured Bible study, which also forces one to leave one’s comfort zone and one’s own [...] There’s a video that’s been making the rounds of the Christian blogs, in which pits Jesus against religion. Here it is:
There have been a number of posts that are critical of it as well, including a good one by John Byron, and a longer, but still interesting one at The American [...] Eddie Arthur provides an even-tempered response to a recent interview by Mark Driscoll. 43 “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. 44 But I say, love your enemies Pray for those who persecute you! 45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and [...] The greatest converting influence of all is a life which clearly and obviously is possessed of a power which can cope with the human situation in all its problems, in all its tragedy, and in all its pain. — William Barclay, Turning to God, p.41
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