Stephen Jones
The loss of intellectualism within the Church
The question I propose is this, should we just accept that the average American Christian doesn’t have the intellectual ability to read a passage of scripture and understand it and therefore spoon feed them the understanding, whether through a paraphrased Bible or from the pulpit, or should we push them to understand the Bible by [...]
Our God is not dead, He’s alive, He’s alive!
So I really need to finish reading a few books, especially since I keep finding others I want to read, but since I haven’t finished them and haven’t posted in a while, here are the lyrics to a song that is wrecking my heart.
Christ is Risen by Matt Maher
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside [...]
“Jesus was a virgin. His Bride wasn’t. He loved us anyway.”
These words are deadly. Simply, they rock your pride to utter defeat, ripping at its very core and forcing you onto your knees in humble submission to our Creator, both in the beginning and at the cross.
Russell D. Moore, the Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice-President for Academic Administration at The Southern [...]
What I am reading: March 2010
First, I want to apologize for my lack of posting over the past months and I am trying to make it more of a priority to post.
Second, I just received a copy of When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert and I am really excited to read this book since I plan on [...]
Condemned by their own reason
“It will be one of the curses of the damned to see that they will be condemned by their own reason with which they claimed to condemn the Christian religion.”
Pascal
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“For God is good”
I haven’t posted since Uganda and I plan to post very soon about what the Lord did there and in me but because of school I haven’t had much time to formulate blog posts.
But I figured I could throw out a quote from something I am reading for homework.
Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word
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Whose glory do you live for?
The more I live, and the more I battle with sin, the more I am convinced that it is a battle of glory. It is a battle between my glory and Christ’s glory, between pride and humility. As I reflect on my emotions, my thoughts and actions, and my desires and purposes behind them, I [...]
Striving for Christ, for holiness
Are you satisfied with your life? Or do you hunger for holiness? Do you think you have already reached your goal? Or are you pressing onward? Is your life defined by Christ, by an ever striving passion for holiness? Or are you defined by the world, by your own glorification? Fight for holiness. Learn from [...]
Help 58 Ugandan Orphans Hear the Gospel
So I realize that I have been slacking on posting over the past few weeks and I promise the reason is good. In less than three weeks I will be leaving Southern California for Africa to spend two weeks bringing the gospel to children.
Fifty-percent of the Ugandan population is composed of children 15 and under. [...]
The Centrality of Gospel Proclamation Continued
Continuing from yesterday’s quote from Tim Chester and Steve Timmis’ Total Church,
We want to make three assertions about the relationship between evangelism and social action:
1. Evangelism and scoial action are distinct activities.
Good social action is about harnessing the insights and resources of the poor, but the gospel is a message from the outside that is [...]