Monthly Archives: November 2011

Wise words on discipleship

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November 18, 2011

This is something Sonya, my wife, posted on her Facebook this week. I thought it pretty profound, and thoroughly biblical. (For those of you who do not know her, my wife is not in this picture.) Discipleship is not easy. It is time-intensive. It is labor-intensive. It will cost you. it is not done in [...]


When injustice is enough justice: Parsing theology into nothingness

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November 17, 2011

Part of this post deals with the terrible situation at Penn State University that broke in recent days. Because my website crashed and was down for several days I was unable to write a full post and was limited to expressing my outrage on Twitter and a few Facebook status updates. Suffice it to say [...]


The gospel and the social

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November 14, 2011

I recently spent a couple of hours watching the Al Mohler/Jim Wallis debate at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Henry Center for Theological Understanding. The resolved was that social justice is integral to the gospel. Wallis took the affirmative, while Mohler, reluctantly in his own admission, took the “no” position. Mohler rightly stated that the term [...]


Luke 17:21

"[N]or will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." (ESV)

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