Tickets for Mark Driscoll’s Burn Your Plastic Jesus on sale.
I’m worried I’ll miss out. No idea how many to buy…
Archive for May, 2008
Currently, I need to remember something, feel like it, and not be distracted, simultaneously, before it happens. Unlikely.
What’s your strategy?
Accepting Cultural Relativism means you must stop:
- criticising other cultures.
- criticising your own, or wanting change.
- believing we’ve made progress.
Why?
How high will petrol prices go before someone takes Dave seriously?
Does peak oil denial illustrate unsaved sinners suppressing the truth?
Some think morality comes from what is accepted by a culture. Why?
How big is a culture?
Can we criticise Hitler?
I really want to read “There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind” by Antony Flew.
Abraham gets to the point in exactly 22 words. I think I can do 21. Might need to drop the last
Many admirable parents let their little children watch TV and movies every day.
Would anyone be interested in explaining this to me?
– Abraham Piper, from one of the best blogs on the net, 22 Words.
Serious question though.
going around at the moment has got to be petrol….
I’m reading Holy Spirit: Revelation & Revolution by Reinhard Bonnke. Its the kind of book that I would normally judge other people for reading.
I was skeptical… but… It’s fantastic!
Occasionally he says things which I think are unbiblical (eg Arminianism, or saying the Holy Spirit is creator and sustainer [true] in a sentence very similar to Colossians 1:17, which is about Jesus). A discerning reader should be able to spot them, however.
Sometimes I read things that raise my skeptic’s eyebrow – but turn out to be solid teaching. I’m reading through Acts at the moment and listening through John Piper’s series on it, and all 3 are converging on the same truths. (John is the reason I’m even remotely charismatic. I can pin it down to this (awesome) sermon.) For example, I just finished the chapter on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and I thought “what rot!”… until that afternoon I heard Piper show it from the Bible.
By and large it is a great book, showing clearly the shortcomings of a church body who has largely ignored 1/3 of the trinity for too long. It’s a very needed book. Look out for upcoming quotes.
I amaze myself: I recommend it.
No-one I know, least of all me, is in the least bit charitable.
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.” — C.S. Lewis
Ouch.
Should Christians rejoice (Philippians 4:4) or mourn (James 4:8-10)?
Yes.
It made sense when John Piper read this out in a sermon I listened to yesterday:
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable, and full of glory, is a humble broken hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit; and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior. – Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
Duh! Encountering the holy, glorious, infinite, indescribable God will fill you with unspeakable joy, yet make you feel so small, so dirty as to weep – in both joy and mourning. How could any true joy not leave you humbled!