Brett | January 27, 2010
For those who may be interested, here is a conversation I had with a Lutheran on the assurance of salvation. His comments are in black, mine are in blue (there is another fellow by the name of Mark also in the discussion. I have largely left him out except where we overlap. His comments are [...]
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Tags: Assurance, Calvinism, faith, Lutheran, Sacraments
Brett | January 21, 2010
Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.
HT Justin Taylor (who HT’ed Jeff Brewer)
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Brett | January 20, 2010
I like hard books. Keller’s book is hard, not because of how it challenges my mind but by how it challenges my life. The book is broken into two parts, exegesis and practice. Both are necessary and it is helpful to have it in one volume.
Like so many conservative Christians I had political positions that [...]
Category: Culture, Evangelism, Gospel, Scripture |
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Tags: Book Review, Church, Evangelism, Grace Community, McCook, Methods, Tim Keller
Brett | January 13, 2010
Albert Mohler is a voracious reader. I believe that he reads almost a book a day. This book evidences a well read review of the New Atheism.
It is broken into two major sections: 1) A Presentation of the New Atheism and its main proponents and 2) a response to that challenge.<br/>Mohler does a fantastic job [...]
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Tags: Albert Mohler, Atheism, Book Review, Philosophy
Brett | January 7, 2010
Continuing my review of the November Watchtower article “Exposed: Six Myths About Christianity,” I’d like to remind my readers that the full text of the Watchtower article is in blue with my comments in black.
MYTH 2: THE WICKED SUFFER IN HELL
What is the origin of the myth? “Of all the classical Greek philosophers, the one [...]
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Tags: Cults, Hell, Historical, Jehovah Witnesses
Brett | January 4, 2010
It seems that there is no end to the books that aim to tell us how the church should look. On the one hand it can be very disorienting to get so many different viewpoints. There are two things to practice in sorting out all the information we receive. First, read each book with your [...]
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Tags: Book Review, Church, Grace Community, McCook