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Weekly Wisdom

by Dan on August 21, 2010

I would not give a penny for your love of truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error. – C.H. Spurgeon

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Is it OK to be gay?

by Dan on April 30, 2009

I know this is a touchy issue in America these days, and a lot of great dialogue has been occurring on both sides of the fence. Rich Schmidt, a local pastor, wrote a post on the topic of homosexuality in which he asks the question, “What are some things that I can be doing, as [...]

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God is the Gospel

by Dan on March 5, 2009

The early church was persecuted heavily, particularly under the reign of Nero (who fed Christians to the lions in the Coliseum). How must have early followers preached to attract so many new followers to the faith in such a difficult time? Why would anyone come to faith in Christ when it meant almost certain death? [...]

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The Mystery of Theology

by Dan on January 25, 2009

UPDATE: Charles Lehmann made a great point in a comment on this post — the word tension would be better expressed as paradox. Read the helpful comment by clicking here. This has come up before in a past post entitled The Great “Tensions” of our Faith. It got resurrected recently by a post at internetmonk.com [...]

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?-ianity, a Christless Christianity

by Dan on January 2, 2009

It’s no big secret that the gospel of American Christianity is really no Gospel at all — see my recent post entitled American Jesus: A Manifesto for more on that. But this is much more significant than just the presentation of “Decision Theology” and other Pelagian ideals, it involves a complete removal of Christ from [...]

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American Jesus: A Manifesto

by Dan on December 3, 2008

A good friend and spiritual father to me (1 Corinthians 4:15), Dick Rockenbach, recently asked me to begin thinking about the differences between the American Jesus and the Real Jesus — which is a really interesting topic. I had intended to first write a post about connections and evangelism, but that has been sitting in [...]

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