July 2009
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“‘Church isn’t boring because we’re not showing enough film...”
– -Ted Kluck, from Why We Love The Church: In Praise of Institutions And Organized Religion
HT: Pyromaniacs: I Lose, You Win
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Common Sense May Sink ObamaCare →
A great column from the WSJ about the problems in Obama’s proposed nationalized health care and the growing public sentiment against it.
An excerpt:
“I suspect voters, the past few weeks, have been giving themselves an internal Q-and-A that goes something like this:
Will whatever health care bill is produced by Congress increase the deficit? “Of course.” Will it mean tax increases?...
A Little Intro To What We'll Be Doing In Seattle
For those of you unfamiliar with the church I’ll be working at in Seattle, Mars Hill, here is a short introduction.
This is a sermon excerpt called Jesus vs. Religion:
This is a sermon called “Marriage and Men” that I dare any man to listen to. Ladies, this is one you may want to have your man sit through.
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A few months ago my friend Teppei was telling me...
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Great Article on The Church in The Washington Post →
The Washington Post gave some space to Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck and it was not wasted.
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Here’s the opening paragraph:
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“Here’s what Bono, Oprah, and the guru speakers on PBS won’t tell you: Jesus believed in organized religion and he founded an institution. Of course, Jesus had no patience for religious hacks and self-righteous wannabes, but he was still Jewish....
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Download Francis Chan's "Crazy Love" For Free →
Click on the title to go to the download.
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Why The Reformation Was Necessary
Here is some good insight from Graeme Goldsworthy and John Piper.
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In March, 2008, Graeme Goldsworthy delivered a lecture at Southern Baptist Theological seminary titled “Biblical Theology and its Pastoral Application.”
In it he gave one of the clearest statements of why the Reformation was needed and what the problem was in the way the Roman Catholic church had conceived of the gospel.
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"Unselfishness" vs. Love
I was familiar with the last two sentences but I’d never read what preceded it. I need to read more Lewis apparently because in a time of nuanced language, insight like this is needed. Thanks to Slice of Laodicea for the quote.
“If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of...