January 2010
13 posts
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“We have to get somehow from mandata Dei [the commandments of God] to Deus...”
– J.S. Whale, Christian Doctrine p. 146 (quoted in Graham Cole, God the Peacemaker)
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“Repenting of sin only gets you to the level of Pharisee. The difference between...”
– Timothy Keller, Gospel DNA at Exponential 2008.
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The Kingdom is here. Repent
As we worked our way through the Gospel According to Mark it became rather apparent to me that very few of us have done justice to the strange announcement of Jesus. The strangeness comes right after Jesus announces the presence of the kingdom- he commands everyone to repent. I don’t think we’ve thought nearly hard enough about how that command, following the announcement of the...
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The only problem
Ofcourse, the fundamental problem with the situation created by the below mentioned contextualization is that it will require an unprecedented thing from us younger evangelical types: humility.
Not some feigned epistemological humility which is the oddest sort of non-commital, individualistic pride. But a humility that is able to say, “Someone teach me about the gospel again.” It will...
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Contextualizing Legalism
The problem with contextualization is that you can contextualize anything. So when a whole bunch of right-leaning self-justifiers & self-sanctifiers are suddenly liberated and become left-leaning self-justifiers & self-sanctifiers, they are essentially still Pharisees—seeking to establish a righteousness of their own. It may look and sound hipper, involve craft beer, cigar smoking,...
“What has exceedingly hurt you in time past, nay, and I fear to this day, is want...”
– from a letter written by John Welsey to John Premboth in 1760.
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““We know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those...”
– Thomas Brooks, “The Crown and Glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the Only Way to Happiness“
“To this I added, suppose a kingdom had been long overrun by the enemies of its...”
– William Carey, 1757.
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“The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our...”
– Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods
Wright on Colossians is almost better than the...
There are these amazing moments as I read Wright on Colossians when I find my heart pounding, my breath taken away, and As he pulls all these strands together I am amazed at God’s mercy, beauty and sovereign rule through Jesus.
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“The essence of the fall of Eve and Adam—and all of us in Adam—is the supreme...”
– John Piper, from Sermon entitled “Abortion & the Tree of the Knowledge of Good 7 Evil”