Friday, June 16, 2017

Condemnation is Important

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Sometimes what is not said is louder than what is said.  Consider this example of a parent with two kids.  One kid hauls off and punches the...
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Monday, May 08, 2017

Skipping the Church

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This post over at A Cry for Justice is indicative both of what I like about the site and of what makes me deeply uncomfortable about it. ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Misunderstanding love and hate

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Ben Mallicote writes about faith and politics at the group blog BenMallicote.com.  His newest piece is written in condemnation of the phra...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Lacking Hope

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There is a great need for the comfort and hope of the gospel today.  We can see it in the culture around us. And no I don’t mean politics.  ...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Rogue One and Thoughts on the New Direction of Star Wars

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I saw Rogue One, and it is a good action movie.  It felt a bit more like a Star Wars film, but without any character development.  Droids st...
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Friday, December 02, 2016

Mockery in the Church

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I recently wrote about the decline in discussion thanks to the rise in mockery.  It was in the context of why we have Trump vs. Clinton.  I...
Monday, October 03, 2016

Blame Jon Stewart for the 2106 Election

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It is hard not to be confused by how the American 2016 presidential election has come down to Clinton and Trump. They are hated by almost ev...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

More Hyde on the 4th Commandment

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Hyde makes the claim that there is no way around the fact that the Lord’s Day is the Christian Sabbath.  And the article and a good por...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Rev. Hyde and the Sabbath

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One cannot click around for more than a few seconds before running across someone slobbering all over the Puritans and talking of their ...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

Activism vs. Action

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The Gospel Coalition has a blog up trying to figure out why the videos showing Planned Parenthood selling baby parts did not have any affec...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Taylor is not Trump

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Recently Politico began a stream of thought that the Republicans could be the Whigs because Trump is like Zachary Taylor.  Sadly, it i...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Celebrity Pastor and Seminaries

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You read a lot today about the Celebrity Pastor and the problem and even how to fix it.  Opinions vary on the causes and solutions.  Sometim...
Friday, May 06, 2016

Rethinking Seminaries Part 6

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The Apprentice Model of the Seminary has many advantages over an academic model.  First and foremost among them is that it returns train...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Rethinking Seminaries Part 5

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So what is the better way than seminaries?  I think it is the apprenticeship model.  The whole world used apprenticeships for every k...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Rethinking Seminaries Part 4

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Seminaries present problems because they are based on an academic model.  This means that like any graduate school, you have to pick up ...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

Rethinking Seminaries Part 3

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One of the fundamental planks of Dr. Pipa’s defense of seminaries is the superiority of Princeton to other methods of training men for t...