“You are not my life”
For months, I looked out at the congregation and said [to myself], ‘You are not my life…’
Excellent teaching series on preaching in a late modern context from Edmund Clowney and Timothy Keller.
Blog, page 20
“Every goat in the U.S.”
What God requires
I had to push myself to believe that this is all God requires of me — to seek his revealed will and to then live…
”Jesus was single. He never married or had sex. And he was completely fulfilled and had the most effective life in history”
—Nathan Winstead
“The Missing Demographic in Urban Churches”
”He threw it off a man’s head into his own net! He threw it off a man’s head into his own net!”
h/t @NateTBush
”the American [military] policy of treating child sexual abuse as a ‘cultural issue’”
“A tale of 3 cities- Violent crime in LA, NYC, and Chicago”
“Why shattering a moralistic understanding of Christianity is a good thing”
”No longer do we think we have the power merely to discover moral reality and truth — we think we have the power to actually create it. What we have now is less a reversal of modernity and than an intensification of its deepest patterns”
— Timothy Keller
”Water runs downhill and the highest hills are the great cities. If we can stir them…”
— DL Moody (h/t @OrchardGroup)
“Everything changes in light of the Victim who is the Judge”
“Boston College philosophy prof identifies only four possibilities re Abortion and culpability”
”The trend is clear- The number of homicides in major U.S. cities has declined spectacularly”
“When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?”
Excellent article. Demonstrates why sound analysis is so much more important (and difficult) than simplistic culture war rhetoric.