>I haven't ever posted a sermon on my blog before, but I couldn't figure out how to get this posted any other way - the old Connexion site is down and I don't have control over the new one. Anyway, the topic of homosexuality and the church/Christians is one we don't talk about often at … Continue reading >Does God Care Who Loves Whom
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>Simeon and Wesley: Example of Christian Charity
>Charles Simeon was a great evangelical preacher in the last half of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Though a Calvinist, he displays a wonderful charity to his Arminian brother John Wesley. I first read this account of the conversation between Simeon and Wesley in John Piper's book The Roots of Endurance: Invincible … Continue reading >Simeon and Wesley: Example of Christian Charity
>Praise God for the Messiness of Evangelicalism
>Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." I confess I have a little mind and I love consistency. I love order, I love tidy systems of thought. Maybe that's why I'm so Reformed - true Reformed theology is consistent, sometimes too tidy. Maybe that's also why I sometimes wonder if wonder … Continue reading >Praise God for the Messiness of Evangelicalism
>The Bride of Christ and the Song of Solomon
>Last night I had to chance to preach on one of my favorite topics - the church. I love talking about the church. This past semester I've spent a lot of time critiquing the church: on my blog, in my ACG and interacting with the reading I'm doing for class. That critique is born out … Continue reading >The Bride of Christ and the Song of Solomon
>Finding some agreement on Christ and Culture
>The debate between how Christians should engage culture goes back at least to Tertullian and Justin Martyr. Two camps continue to debate the topic in modern Reformed circles - the 'Kuyperians' or 'Transformationalists' and the 'Two Kingdom-ers'. Kuyper famously stated, "There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over … Continue reading >Finding some agreement on Christ and Culture
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