John Newton’s Words Stab Deeply

While this could easily be said of Mr. Newton’s more famous words, the song “Amazing Grace”, I presently refer to a bit I recently heard via a Justin Taylor message titled A New Kind of Christianity? A Look at the Emerging Church Movement.
Mr. Taylor masterfully used the following Newton quote in the context of how [...]

Ravi Zacharias succinctly contrasts Christianity and Islam

I’m thoroughly enjoying Ravi’s 2000 book, Jesus Among Other Gods. The man has a way with words without being verbose and thus inhibiting the presentation of the Gospel.
While a post a day quoting a great insight from this book is doable, I’ll try to contain myself.
Before I cite the words relevant to the title [...]

American Puritanism and Eliot Spitzer

From the pen of Tom Clancy,
The dollar was already falling… In Europe, traders on their way home heard their cellular phones start beeping to call them back. Something unexpected was afoot. Analysts wondered if it had anything to do with the developing sex scandal within the American government. Europeans always wondered [...]

“It’s Evolution, Baby!”

So wails Pearl Jam frontman, Ed Vedder, in a track (”Do the Evolution” from the band’s masterful 1998 release, Yield.

Pre-conversion, I reveled in the song due to the fact that I idolized Mr. Vedder, graphically portrays the evolutionary process,  and especially because it criticizes religious (read: Christian) hypocrites in the lines,
I’m a thief
I’m a [...]

Imagine there’s no People…

I’m not trying to add lines to Mr. Lennon’s pipe dream, but I thought the title apropos in light of the following story:
“Revealed: what the world will look like when we’ve gone”.
Here is the rendition of the city of lights,
It’s almost like they artist was inspired by the ruins of the Mayan pyramids.
Hey, look on [...]

In case you don’t know who Hannah Montana is…

You can read all about her in this article from the UK’s Daily Mail,
“I won’t become the new Britney, says Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus”
The focus of the story is really of little consequence insofar as my personal preferences are concerned, but I thought a line from the above story to be especially delectable and [...]

Zacharias, Mohler, and Sproul on the Emergent Church

Interesting video…

I thought Ravi’s comments are “worth the millenium.” The following starts at around 4:55,
Sproul:When Christians make confessions of faith propositionally and say “here we stand this is what we believe”, the emergent church was a built-in allergy to that don’t you think Al [Mohler]?
Zacharias: Vance Havner who had a very sharp wit with [...]

Christian Environmentalism: 2 Perspectives

The first comes from Pastor Rob Bell who outlined his stance in an interview titled, “Rob Bell Tells it Like It Is”, from the January/February issue of Relevant Magazine,
Relevant Magazine: Why do you think so many Christians are now embracing this style of living? What is it about faith that lends itself toward [...]

British Teenager killed in India? Blame it on God of course!

An Indian co-worker of mine informed the rest of us of a tragic event which transpired in her native land. A 15-year-old British girl was raped and murdered in the city of Goa.
The puzzling circumstances surrounding the tragedy are further explored in the following article,
“Why was Scarlett left by herself in the first place, [...]

Moses was High on Mount Sinai?

According to this story,
“‘Moses was high on hallucinogenic drug when he received Ten Commandments,’ claims top academic”
Moses was high when he saw the burning bush as well as when he received the Ten Commandments.
Check out the story to read the details according to Dr. Benny Shannon, a psychology professor, who came up with this theory.
I [...]