John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
@jgsphd
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@JonathanMerritt
As you know, I’m no fan of Franklin Graham. But is there a lot of competition to set up such hospitals? Any redundancy? Any hint that of discrimination against sexual minorities? To invoke good ol’ D. L. Moody, “I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it."
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I’ve written for
@CTmagazine
for more than 30 years, and was on the masthead for 20. We’ve had occasion to irritate & honour each other over those years, but I’ve never been prouder of them than I am today.
#notallevangelicals
#ChristianityToday
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I don’t always agree with
@jonkay
, nor with everything in
@Quillette
(although one tires of these all-too-necessary disclaimers), but he’s right on in this excoriation of woke journalism in Canada that fails to defend free speech, true victims, and good sense.
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@nytdavidbrooks
@mboorstein
I appreciate Mr Brooks’s reflections, but I’m surprised that Native Americans get only a parenthetical reference. Surely the sins against them are America’s first sins, and reparation/reconciliation needs to be considered in regard to both communities, no?
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Has
@ericmetaxas
been arrested yet?
Thought experiment: He is riding a bike and hurls an insult at young black man, who punches him off his bike. What happens next?
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Clarence Thomas's legacy: (1) sexual harassment and getting away with it; (2) supporting a wife who supports Jan. 6; and (3) opening the floodgates on guns.
Anita Hill is entitled to shake her head today: "I told you this man wasn't fit for the Court."
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Courage. What a concept! Let's see a few more corporations and institutions resist mob culture in this new year, shall we? "Has J.K. Rowling figured out a way to break our cancel culture?"
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Before Evangelicals Canonize Ravi Zacharias, will they learn from Jean Vanier and L’Arche? via
@defendthesheep
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Funny how a generation of theological educators—who nod respectfully toward the ideas of Bonhoeffer, Polanyi, Palmer, and Vanier—keep pushing distance education. I’m all for distance education…so long as no one pretends it’s just as formative as a residential community.
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@JonathanMerritt
Fundamentalism fashions a brittle faith outlook that either keeps its shape under pressure…or snaps. Lots of ex-fundies are, therefore, agnostics…or converts to some other extreme religion.
Some of us, however, just leave fundamentalism w/o a big to-do. And stay Christian.
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The estimable
@davidfrum
preaches a sermon on Winthrop (and Matthew’s, and Jesus’s) challenging phrase, “city on a hill.” The Gospel refers to the Church, but so long as Americans want to apply it to the USA, it comes with a heavy implication, as David properly says.
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A helpful explainer from
@davidfrum
about how impeachment trials can produce important outcomes, however they are decided...
My latest in
@TheAtlantic
Don't despair, the impeachment remedy still works - just not the way the Framers expected.
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@spulliam
@JerryFalwellJr
Astonishing that the trustees of this university haven’t fired this president by now. Indefensible exegesis to excuse Trump is bad enough, but risking lives in order to kowtow to his political friend is just dereliction of duty. What would Falwell have to do to get fired?
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Sad that RHE is gone. She mentions me as one of her “teachers” along the way and while we disagreed about A, B, and C, we agreed on the Way, the Truth, and the Life. (And I confess to enjoying too much her annoying people who annoy me…) Grieving for her family & many friends
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@jonathanchait
@davidfrum
“Working hard” is always a warning sign in a letter of reference, of course. Are speakers giving away more than they mean to?
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For a communications officer—and on behalf of a church!—to frequently and obviously plagiarize is simply professional malpractice and ought to result in disqualification. Apologizing isn’t enough. You’re done.
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Wayne Grudem is an undistinguished NT exegete. His attempt at systematic theology is clueless re the historical & philosophical disciplines essential to that enterprise. As an ethicist, he is appallingly simplistic. Surprise: He defends Trump:
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Good for Josh. Now the real question: Where were the grownups at the publishing house when his MS. first arrived? Can’t blame a kid for being a kid. Can blame experienced editors & publishers for cashing in on what obviously should have been modulated, if not rejected.
The man who sparked the modern Christian courtship movement just apologized for it:
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The Bee was funny sometimes when it stuck to religious subjects, esp. the evangelical subculture. It has rarely been funny on politics, and often just stupidly offensive…to the right or to the left. How a sense of humor can go so badly wrong when harnessed to ideology...
Washington Post Calls On Patriots To Change Offensive Name
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@davidfrum
Should have been the coloring book edition, of course…but HM was on the right track, as ever.
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The actual definition of a “sucker”: someone who believes a con man despite abundant evidence that he is a liar and a cheat.
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Friends mourning the death of Ravi Zacharias should skip this link. I don’t want to interfere.
Others, tho, who wonder why some of us don’t celebrate him as an exemplary apologist will find this of interest.
#RaviZacharias
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@marinamaral2
It’s superb work, Marina. I’ve been enjoying the book, but on a good screen (Mac Retina) it is so splendid. “Details” indeed—but also a sense of the whole, a sense of being there. Marvelous!
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Ouch. Jonathan Merritt indicts church leaders by finding them morally inferior to...Silicon Valley businesspeople via
@jonathanmerritt
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Many have remarked that Eric Metaxas is an unreliable historian (viz. his making an American evangelical out of Bonhoeffer) & now a pro-Trump hack. Now he forewords “The Faith of Donald J. Trump.” Why would any serious Xn listen to him anymore?
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When Lincoln sat down after his Gettysburg Address, he felt he had failed. Never judge your performance by how you feel afterward.
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@RaviScam
Sarah Davis, Michael Ramsden & other senior executives of RZIM clearly participated in 2 of 3 scandals: the credential fraud & the church fraud (claiming to be a “church” to avoid salary reporting). They enabled the 3rd, the sexual abuse. They should lead nothing ever again.
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@JonathanMerritt
@ajc
@swbts
Oh, you smart-aleck liberal journalists and your fake news media, taking someone’s words ‘way out of context to mean something completely opposite to what he meant. What Patterson *really* meant was…uh…. Nope. I got nothing. He’s a misogynist.
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@davidfrum
We’re not going to get into “who’s really qualified” & “cui bono” & all that stuff, are we? That’s traditional politics!
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I wonder how American Christian conservatives deal with the fact that the Bible is full of verses commanding that the burden of the poor be lifted while not a single verse mentions lightening the tax load of the wealthy (so that all may somehow benefit!)...
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@OrenKessler
@davidfrum
You’ve gotta love the reference to “The College Board” (which runs the SAT) and the postscript. “Do what we say or we will kill you—and thanks for the coffee. It’s good!"
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@JonathanMerritt
It would be well if pastors kept to the things they’re trained to talk about. It’s not like a 3-year MDiv gives expertise in…anything. But it’s astonishing how many pastors have anointed themselves experts on mental health, family systems, finances, politics, sex & more...
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Grieving for friends who teach at Northern Seminary—and for colleagues and students at The King's College (NYC) and Trinity International University (IL).
Grateful for our board here at CrandallU.
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If we come to Scripture with an open mind, it opens to us, like a window. If we come with a closed mind, it closes to us, like a mirror. Beware finding exactly, and too readily, what you expected to find in the Bible...
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@KatelynBeaty
I have a joke about The Gospel Coalition but I haven’t been able to show its consistency yet with the Westminster Standards, all of the Puritan divines, Wayne Grudem’s giant theology book, and the latest vlog in which John Piper shares his heart.
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@JonathanMerritt
“Complying with the simple commands of God-fearing men” has normally spelled trouble for POC in the Americas.
And since the victim might well have been a God-fearing man himself, why didn’t they comply with HIS commands?
The fervency of self-exculpation here is nauseating.
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@spulliam
Did he really draw a parallel between the curse of the Cross (which Jesus underwent *voluntarily* as our Divine Saviour) & the resulting salvation of the World, on the one hand, and the curse of *slavery* & the wealth of white people, on the other? (1/2) And what did he think...
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@JonathanMerritt
I’m more confused that
@johnnymhunt
somehow considers himself in the position to forgive. I don’t want to deploy oversubtle distinctions here, but shouldn’t it be WOMEN who offer to do the forgiving, and also men whom Patterson has wronged—not his fellow big-shot pastors?
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(2/2) Indeed, if Christianity can be taken aboard a celebrity’s life (or anyone’s) without disruption, without deep disturbance, but instead as a mere accessory, then what is being taken aboard is too light to be authentic Christianity, costly discipleship, the way of the cross.
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@davidfrum
You can be only 1/10th (or 1/50th) as manipulative as the Nazis and still be plenty bad...
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@JonathanMerritt
@louiegiglio
“What I meant was, that, uh, well…slavery had an upside…for some non-slaves. And that’s important to remember because…uh…cross…something something…paradox…something something...and…maybe I’m outta my depth here…and maybe no one should listen to me on complex subjects."
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Why in the world did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, lifelong Christian churchgoers, refer to the victims of the Sri Lanka bombings as “Easter worshippers” instead of, you know, “Christians”?
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I know Joe Biden’s administration is going to disappoint and annoy me. Barack Obama’s did, too. But today, I just look forward to being disappointed and annoyed, even occasionally outraged. You know: normal emotions provoked by politicians doing their best. What a change.
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@JonathanMerritt
@swbts
Patterson testifies to
@spulliam
that the Lord has said “not a word” to him on this recent matter. Biblically, though, it’s not a comforting sign when the Lord finally gives up speaking to someone...
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Mk9:35-37: “Hi, I feel called to be the senior pastor of a big, important church!”
“Excellent! Let’s start you in the nursery and see how you do with little children…"
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This is the Basic Fact of Life in Vancouver: "In the 1970s, the ratio of housing prices to median wages was 3 to 1.... In 2016,... the ratio had grown to 13 to 1 — where it remains stuck.”
@DouglasTodd
continues to chronicle this chronic nightmare:
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@KatelynBeaty
I have a joke about progressive exvangelicals but—well, no, I don’t. And NO ONE ELSE HAD BETTER HAVE ONE, EITHER.
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@JonathanMerritt
Perhaps one should recognize salient & pertinent differences between God & your neighbour. If your neighbour stuck knives in his kids claiming to help them, you’d call the cops. If a surgeon did it, not so much. My physiotherapist hurts people all the time, and she should!
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Christianity Is Hard Dept.: One of the deeply irritating teachings of Jesus is that I must love other people, even enemies, as he loves me.
On social media, therefore, I have to treat everyone as a neighbour Jesus loves. Indeed, I must treat them in Jesus’s name.
Irritating.
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John Wesley’s advice kills 30% of Twitter traffic: “Have I interested myself any further in the affairs of others than charity required?” Then another 30%: “Have I mentioned any failing or fault of anyone, when it was not necessary for the good of another?” Sheesh, dude...
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Christian comedian Jim Gaffigan nicely nails it here...
It’s not easy to be a Christian in America today but luckily there are people like Franklin Graham to make it virtually impossible.
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@spulliam
@bartbarber
Even when they’re concerned for others, they’re concerned for themselves: "immigrants are Xns, or many will be." As an evangelical myself, I continue to shake my head (& grind my teeth) at this selfish myopia. It’s 2019: Trump *could* lose your vote? What Bible are you reading?
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Impeachment isn’t just about the next dozen days, important as they are. It’s about the next dozen years. The spectre of Candidate Trump must be exorcised once and for all, and impeachment is the way to do it.
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The Book of Common Prayer’s rendering of Ps51 says, “Uphold me with your free Spirit.” Imagine: the greatest gift in the universe, immediate communion w the Supreme Being in love & power, is FREE. The Spirit is eager to live w us, w you, w me. Should get your day going right.
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God is the great Creator, making all somethings out of nothing; the great Repairer, fixing even the badly broken; the great Alchemist, transmuting rubbish into the beautiful; and the great Resurrector, bringing life out of death. God can be trusted with what I face today.
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@davidfrum
“I killed people to protect American freedom and I’ll kill these Americans if they exercise it.” Maybe a good thing he didn’t get above “corporal”…
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@emmillerwrites
@RNS
That would be “certain kinds of evangelical Christians”: leaders not likely to be there include Ron Sider, Mimi Haddad, Rich Mouw, Rick Warren, Russell Moore, Mark Noll, Mark Galli, any black evangelical not beholden to the prosperity “gospel,” ditto any Latinx...
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This is a disturbing thread.
How can Samaritan's Purse not become one of the biggest stories of the year in American religion, as it controls almost (wait for it) $1 billion? And doesn't spend nearly all that is donated, but keeps it on hand instead for...what?
Oh wow. Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse (a "non-profit organization") made $224,339,099 in 2020 in profit (Revenue less expenses"). $224 million.
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@JonathanMerritt
If I may, mightn't it be better for the women to stand silently throughout the sermon? They shouldn’t be leaving. Unrepentant, he should. Yes, others will be inconvenienced: the “messengers" who had the choice to refuse him the pulpit & preferred for him to stay. So: DEAL.
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Are Focus on the Family, BGEA, & RZIM Churches? (NO.) And Should They Be Exempt From Reporting Salaries of Executives? (ALSO NO.) (AND THIS IS DISGUSTING.)
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My favourite North American political conservative offers some good sense—right across the Canadian political spectrum—about demonstrations, governments, rights, police forces, and the responsibilities of grown-ups in controversy. Thanks,
@davidfrum
‘Incidents are easier to prevent than undo’:
@davidfrum
weighs in on the trucker protests and the federal government’s response
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Christian counselors who tell sad & desperate spouses that marriage is not primarily to make us happy, but holy, miss the point that marriage is also supposed to make us *healthy*. God rarely asks us to pursue holiness at the cost of our mental or spiritual health… and 1/x
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@spulliam
It’s called “brutality” not only b/c it’s violent, but b/c it’s stupid. What could be more mindless than heavily armed officers gassing some citizens standing still to pray and sing?
“Brutality" is unfair to brutes. It’s ROBOTIC: the unfeeling, unthinking execution of orders.
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@davidfrum
Yet another reason (as if we need one) why non-politicians make bad senior politicians: they lack a set of relevant acquaintances
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Buoyed up by the Holy Spirit, Christians must be the shock absorbers of the world. If the vibrations of violence are ever to stop rebounding, someone must just receive them, w/o resistance or reaction. This is what it means to turn the other cheek, to go the extra mile.
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@mboorstein
"Why is it our people are so vulnerable to this stuff?” A list: Poor training in Bible & theology. Cultivation of authority in populist leaders. Championing of feelings/intuitions over facts as a sign of superior faith. Estrangement from mainstream culture. Wishful thinking...
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This Anglo-Canadian male wants to make clear that merely announcing, “I’m a hugger!” doesn’t give you the right to hug a person any more than saying “I’m a kisser!” or “I’m a fondler!” gives you license to indulge in those acts, either.
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Why go to church? Well, why go to Weight Watchers or AA? “The person who believes she can homeschool her own soul has a rather high view of her own ability.” (
@debra_rienstra
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No one who knows (of) Paige Patterson will be surprised at this macho madness. What nauseates is the perpetuation of people like this at the top of a major Christian denomination. (So much for anti-Catholic polemic from Baptists…)
The church will never be a refuge for abused women so long as prominent leaders like Southern Baptist Paige Patterson are making dangerous statements like this...
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A quick reminder:
Disagreement ≠ Intolerance
Disagreement ≠ Hatred
Disagreement ≠ Harm
Actual harmful, hateful intolerance doesn't respect you enough to disagree with you. It simply works to defeat and eliminate you. If we're talking, there's hope.
Let's talk.
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I may not feel I have been given much by God. May I nonetheless break it in half, and share.
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The grading begins. Today, a student praises my own book (assigned in a class) thus: “The chapters are all able to fit together and make one book.” True dat.
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@JohnHMcWhorter
Talk about your “teachable moment.” If administrations would formulate a coherent & defensible stance—other than “We’ll panic whenever students express distress”—they could then help students press for social change in constructive ways. Instead, they condone career firebombing.
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Billy Graham mostly succeeded, with conspicuous failures, in distancing himself from partisan politics. More importantly, he distanced evangelicalism from some of the worst aspects of fundamentalism. Son Franklin seems determined to reverse all that.
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Pity the President and Board of Morehouse College who have to ask someone to speak at next year’s commencement ceremony...
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It's about time: Federal Judge Orders Chris Tomlin To Stop Adding Choruses To Perfectly Good Hymns
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@TheAtlantic
@kcalamur
Note to copy-editor: Remove “astonishing,” replace with “entirely predictable."
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Dear Mary Magdalene: Her heart couldn’t break any further…and then she comes to the tomb to pay her last respects—and they have taken the body!
It could not have gotten any worse.
And then—it could not have gotten any better.
“Mary!"
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Receiving God’s gift of salvation is not like accepting a Christmas present. It is like accepting an offer of marriage, or of adoption. It is completely free—and costs one everything, one’s whole life, because it is a relationship, not a commodity.
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As the scandals unfold around the late Ravi Zacharias, some defenders assert that, whatever his faults and failures, his excellent work as an apologist deserves respect.
Well, about that (ICYMI):
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@TrevorSheatz
@RaviScam
Yes, you want to get your life-changing theological and ethical advice from a young "social media manager."
(We apparently learned nothing from listening to that young twit who wrote “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.”)
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The most important thing God has for me today might not even be on my agenda. May I be willing to spot it, divert myself, and take it on.
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“Pastors are not cooks, but physicians, and therefore should not aim to delight the palate, but to heal the patient” (Jean Daillé, 17C Huguenot pastor; H/T Steve Dempster’s new commentary on Micah).
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Don’t try to make tomorrow’s decisions today. Make today’s decisions well, with your full attention.
(I tell myself this often, because I have to. So I thought I’d tell you, too.)
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@spulliam
(2/2)…is to be gained by referring to white privilege as “white blessings”? I have no idea what Giglio thinks he’s showing here—other than conceptual, racial, and political obtuseness. Tell me I’m missing something and Lecrae isn’t nodding along to toxic nonsense!
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As the
#NothanksRavi
scandal unfolds, there are a LOT of organizations who refused to deal with
@RaviScam
’s diligent documentation & earnest entreaties. Admirers of an intellectual poseur, they refused to do their due diligence to keep the $ & people coming in. Shameful.
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I've been scratching my head about this for a long while now, and maybe have something helpful to say about this troubling mystery... via
@RNS
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Wow: For your morning dose of wild, stupid & unself-aware secularism, the CBC gives you Neil Macdonald
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Ouch: John Wesley says, “Our prayers are the proper test of our desires…. What we may not pray for, neither should we desire.” Well, of course, of course. And also, ouch. (I find sanctification truly inconvenient.)
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GKChesterton: "Christianity has not been tried & found wanting; it has been found difficult & not tried.” Many Christians, incl. pastors & teachers, have found understanding the Old Testament difficult, and so happily abandon it for a New Testament they think they understand.
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Disgust at the extremes of the Religious Right—or Left—should not prompt evangelical preachers to retreat to mere piety + evangelism, but to a deeper & broader Biblical politics. Will pastors help their congregants make better choices? Will seminaries train pastors to do so?
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If you believe your opponents are fools on Nov. 3, how do you love them on Nov. 4?
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@davidfrum
There you go again, with your logic and consistency and historical knowledge and other distractions and obfuscations.
(You say it “bears repeating,” my friend, but I’m not sure it does: Surely those who get it got it, and those who didn’t, won’t. [sigh])
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People who insist that their relationship with you requires that you agree with all their values are not looking for friends. They're just looking for fans.
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The Bible is complex technology. Here's what happens when incompetent personnel try to use it:
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Again, please be clear that friends mourning the death of Ravi Zacharias should skip this link. I don’t want to disrupt.
Those who wonder, tho, why some of us don’t celebrate him as an exemplary apologist might want to click it.
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