Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God, but is now primarily identified as a . . . . Continue Reading »
So Joe posted a link to the new Manhattan Declaration which came out late last week, and in the comments it came out that I agree with the morals of the document but think this documents and others like it obscure the Gospel. Collin, my co-blogger here at Evangel, didn’t see what I meant . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve uploaded a little file which mined out some data from a site called ARDA simply to stake out some signposts for the major bru-ha-ha about the reported death of Evangelicalism.It’s a ZIP file, but inside the file is an old-school .xls file with two tabs — one listing the net . . . . Continue Reading »
The subject of God’s love is not an either/or question in the face of orthodoxy. It’s not either you think God loves men or you have the right theology. In fact, I would say that the manner by which you can affirm that God loves men determines whether or not you have the right . . . . Continue Reading »
This is Holy.Jen Zila says this over there: will love until it feels uncomfortable, and when i start to get comfortable with that, i’ll give until it gets uncomfortable again. because, a $25 check isn’t much of a stretch in our household it doesn’t really ‘cost’ us. but . . . . Continue Reading »
Via AP:Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.I will not offer any comments, but you . . . . Continue Reading »
From the letter of Methetes to Diognetus, c. 170 AD:For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of mankind either in locality or in speech or in customs. For they dwell not somewhere in cities of their own, neither do they use some different language, nor practice an extraordinary kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who want to use this creed as the basis for their concession speech have to grasp first that the creed was not the means by which the universal and apostolic church all held hands and sang the Greek version of “Kumbaya”. It was the means by which the church was separating itself from egregious error. Continue Reading »
Would anyone reading this blog allow that someone who adheres to Open Theism holds to faith in Jesus Christ?Can we answer that question using the Nicene Creed?Feel free to post your ideas in the comments. The only thing I’m asking is that my normal Entourage refrain from any apologetic . . . . Continue Reading »
As readers of the TeamPyro blog know, I gave a rather ringing endorsement of Jim Belcher’s recent book Deep Church, and had the privilege of talking with Jim about his book on the Paul Edwards show God and Culture that same week.A lot of people thought my endorsement was a little shallow, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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