Tim Challies on Total Depravity; Ted Haggard; Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World; appreciation for Advent; KenCollins.com (we are now in the third week of Lent).
Podcast episodes 48 – 81 are group together on this page. That page was created years ago and we’re not going to re-share those in our weekly format. Next week we are going to jump podcast #82.
Father Romero Cantalamessa, preacher to the papal household.
Watch blogging. (Does anybody not know what a Weed Eater is?)
More interviews re: The Coming Evangelical Collapse
Evangelicals and liturgical worship
As Christian blogs go Tim Challies is one of the bigs. He’s a Canadian blogger who some think has a become a slave to his own success. He’s linked in my own sidebar and I make reference to his writing from time to time. By his own claim he is “Informing the Reformed” but I’ve never encountered him being hyper-calvinist. He has raised a few red flags with his current series on false teachers, most notably by calling out Pope Francis. While mentioning Francis specifically he really means all popes and the entire Catholic Church as a promoter of a false gospel. You can read his original post here. Continue reading
It’s a short list, but I wanted to go ahead and share. Pay particular attention to the second entry.
Christians sometimes need to be careful when using our own lexicon of “Christianese” words that outsiders should not be expected to understand. Tim Challies warns us not to over-simply our vocabulary, pointing out the value in learning new terms. We are expected to grow, and that growth includes knowledge of God.
Mikey Weinstein is the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He equates the sharing of the Gospel to spiritual rape and wants to see military chaplains court martialed for sharing it. Thanks to Loopy Loo for writing this article at Army of God. This article suggests any soldier, including chaplains, may be court martialed for sharing his faith.
The Six Commandments? A federal judge suggests that public displays of the 10 commandments can be made constitutional by removing the four that directly mention God or the Sabbath. More here.
Tim Challies comments on The State of Preaching. Notice what he says about the Gospel.
Ridley Scott (director of Alien and it’s prequel Prometheus) says he plans to direct a Moses film. Scott is skeptical of all religion, calling it “the source of all evil.”
Chaplain Mike, of Internet Monk, takes a break from reformed theology and reminds us he has a sense of humor in Signs You May Have Hit the Wall.
I enjoy celebrating a good *blogiversary, and Tall Skinny Kiwi just turned nine.
It’s apparently been around for a while, but I just saw the Blue Like Jazz trailer this weekend (before watching MIB3).
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*There is some disagreement on spelling. I prefer blogoversary, the same way we spell blogosphere. Blogiversary uses the letter i presumably to look more like anniversary; I used the same spelling in this post that Andrew used. I’m probably overthinking it, one of the marks of a good blogger.
Another busy week for me, resulting in a rather thin Read & Share File.
Have you ever thought about what we can learn from Barabbas? Michael McKinley has: The Gospel of Barabbas at 9Marks.
Never allow the extraordinary to be thought of as ordinary, Bill Crowder reminds us at Our Daily Bread.
Jesus Is Not Our Boyfriend, an observation made by James Pruch while listening to Contemporary Christian Music.
Tall Skinny Kiwi is back to blogging, recently returning from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany. Catch up and see what’s he’s doing next.
Just a reminder: what used to be My Other Blog is now SMILE :- D God Loves You. It might be just what you need to make it through the day; like 5 Hour Energy without the annoying $4 price tag.
The graphic below and many others available from Tim Challies. see http://www.challies.com/resources/visual-theology-to-the-glory-of-god for more.
The Read and Share File is a new feature here at The Master’s Table. I’ve had nothing but positive feedback so far, let me know what you think.John Piper asks Why Did God Let Paul Become a Murderer? This is some heavy theology, give yourself time to take it all in.
Did you give up anything for Lent? According to Stuff Christians Like the Internet is the most common thing to do without for 40 days. It’s called a Digital Fast and obviously no one reading this is on one.
So you would think that police in New Orleans would pretty much have their hands full during Mardi Gras. In addition to everything else going on (I decided not to print a list) Paul Wilkinson shares this story about Hope Church. They got shut down for giving out coffee and water – for free – to parade goers without a permit. Have you ever seen Mardi Gras?!? Handing out bottled water, that’s gotta’ stop.
Tim Challies is giving stuff away free stuff every Friday, or at least finding it for us. Here you can download Christian themed March calendar wallpaper.
*For a guy that normally looks like a million dollars, that may be the worst picture of Joel Osteen I’ve ever seen. Thanks Christian Post.
October Baby, based on the true story of Gianna Jessen, opens in theaters March 23. Jessen is the survivor of a failed abortion attempt. I first learned of her back in 2008, when the Wall Street Journal (of all things) ran her story. That was the year Barrack Obama ran for president; here’s what I wrote back when.
Tim Challies has written a review after seeing an early screening. He was “pleasantly surprised” at how much he enjoyed it. Tim reviews the film, and also analyzes the challenge facing any and every Christian film.
You could watch the trailer at challies.com, but why not click over to Gianna Jessen’s blog and watch it there. There’s a trailer for the film, and also a behind the scenes sort of thing with Gianna.
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