Read: Jer. 6:16 a, b; Prov. 22:28 Introduction Jeremiah’s time was eerily similar to ours. God’s people had turned away from him. They’d turned to idolatry and fornication. They were imitating the worldly, pagan practices surrounding them. They were mistreating one another, cheating one another. The politicians cared nothing for God’s truth. Even the priests [...]
Month: June 2014
God Is Not an Absentee Father
Read: Rom. 8:14–17; Ps. 103:13–14; Mt. 7:7–11 Introduction I’m ambivalent whenever I hear the popular expression “Christ-centered.” It’s understandable why we’d use it. Jesus the Christ died for our sins and rose (1 Cor. 15:1f.). He’s the exact imprint of God to man (Heb. 1:3). He’s King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. [...]
Wright, Wrong, and Inerrancy
Andrew, I'm curious what you think of Wright's critique of inerrantism (if that's a word) as a product of "modernist rationalism"? I do believe that American evangelicalism is very strongly formed by the philosophical foundations of modernist thought in Descartes and others, so in trying to disentangle our theology from these not-so-biblical ways of thinking, [...]
When Law and Liturgy Won’t Work
It’s not surprising that we live in an age of liturgical renewal, because the stripped-down minimalism of modernity as expressed in liturgy has created a vacuum into which the superficialities and inanities and, in the case of some liberal churches, downright demons (like Lutheran goddess worship), have rushed. Liturgies are good, bad, or mediocre, but [...]
