“…Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity … is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men’s lives.” –Soren Kierkegaard
I was reading Veith’s blog, and he posed a profound question: … Even worse than living as a Christian in an anti-Christian culture is living in a culture where Christianity is tolerated…. [Here is] a quotation from Luther: “No persecution is the ultimate persecution.” Why is that so? That’s a great question. Why is no [...]
This post is the product of a series of conversations with Mike Baker and a recent post by Daniel and Heather Cosby entitled “Demolition of the Heart…”. In Daniel and Heather’s post, they wrote: “Over the last year or two, we have spent considerable energy trying to expose and dismantle the beliefs surrounding this worldly-derived [...]
by Dan on February 1, 2009
I saw this video over at Miscellanies’ blog, who saw it at DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: While it may be a McDonald’s commercial, I think it also contains a lot of truth about how we do church as of late. Kevin DeYoung writes: I admit it’s funny because I like McDonald’s more than I like [...]
by Dan on October 18, 2008
Or at least that’s the message I seem to be hearing from a lot of America’s largest churches and most popular preachers. What ever happened to denying ourselves? What ever happened to the (gulp) offensive teaching that we don’t have the ability in our flesh to discern right from wrong? Whatever happened to keeping the [...]