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Monthly Archives: May 2007
On C. S. Lewis, His Personal Devotion to Relationships, and My Depravity
Courtesy of The Inklings, we have this this excerpt of Erik Routley’s remembrance of C. S. Lewis taken from C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and other Reminiscences: I know myself what others know far better — how unfailingly … Continue reading
Tagged C. S. Lewis, Depravity, Despair, Friendship, Life in general, Virtue, Writing
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Hitchens and Wilson: Answering a fool according to his folly
If you haven’t heard, Douglas Wilson (a Christian) and Christopher Hitchens (an atheist) are debating the question “Is Christianity Good for the World?“. I’d be grossly under-exaggerating if I didn’t say that Wilson is destroying his opponent. Over the last … Continue reading
Tagged Atheism, News, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Skepticism, Theology
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A Preacher without Arms and Legs
About five months ago, I started noticing google searches in my site’s logs showing that people were searching the web with phrase like “Preacher without arms and legs” and “Preacher + no arms + no legs”. And for whatever reason, … Continue reading
Tagged Evangelism, Life in general, News, Witnessing
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The Preacher interviews Jamie Kiley
Jamie Kiley has responded to the interview questions that I posed her a few weeks ago. Go check it out.
Sermon Prep on Assurance of Salvation, Faith, Works, and I John 3
Tomorrow night, I’m preaching at my church and my central text is I John, chapter 3. It’s an interesting passage and the core idea that I’ve taken away from it is that while salvation is of grace through faith, our … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Faith, God, Grace, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture
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Questions about Prevenient Grace
I don’t know a whole lot about Wesleyan Theology. I do know a little bit about the concept of Prevenient Grace, but I have some questions. If anyone out there is a Methodist (or a follower of any of the … Continue reading
Tagged God, Grace, Responsibility, Salvation, Theology
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My brother in law, prayer, love, and grace
We spent some time this weekend in Tennessee with my wife’s family. As you may remember, last Monday my brother-in-law fell eighteen feet from a rooftop and landed on his back, breaking three vertebra, two ribs, and his sternum. As … Continue reading
Analogous Grace: Why God chooses to bless certain things
In my last article on grace, I wrote about Prescriptive Grace and the way that grace is always applied specifically according to God’s desires. In this post, I want to talk about grace in a slightly different way, but first … Continue reading
Prescriptive Grace: The How’s and Why’s of Grace
If you’ve grown up in Christian circles or read many books on Christian topics, you probably run across a lot of different definitions for grace. Things like, “Grace is the unmerited favor of God” or “Grace is the power and … Continue reading
Tagged God, Grace, Knowledge, Life in general, Love, Responsibility
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Please pray for my brother in law
Earlier today, my wife’s brother suffered a major back injury from a fall. I don’t have a lot of information yet, but they’ve done an initial MRI and as of right now, they are questioning whether he will be able … Continue reading
Tagged News, Prayer Request
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