Having taken advantage of the $5 books from Desiring God a few weeks ago, I purchased “Preaching the Cross”. I was fortunate enough to attend the Together for the Gospel Conference last year and will also be attending next year. For those of you who have not yet registered, DO IT NOW! By far, the best [...]
Archive for July, 2007
A Great Reminder to Pastors and Teachers
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(Mis)Understanding Cliches Final Post
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The goal of these posts have been to tackle just a few cliches that are common in hopes of drawing attention to our language that it may reform. Because our language about the gospel has become less than accurate in portraying the truth. This was not to be a novel of cliches but more like [...]
Music: The Handmaiden of Theology
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Back during the middle ages there where a couple of sayings that have really struck a chord (musical pun intended) with me. The first is this one: “Theology is the queen of the sciences and music is her handmaiden”. The second is “Theology is the queen of the sciences and philosophy is her handmaiden”.
Music, I [...]
(Mis)Understanding Cliches Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cliche #3: “Ask Jesus into your heart”
Try to imagine what it would be like to being standing in front of the apostle Peter as he explains what just happened at the day of Pentecost. Peter gives a great explaination and then you ask him, “what must I do to be saved?” And Peter responds, “ask [...]
(Mis)Understanding Cliches Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cliché #2: “Doing business with God”
This one is not as prevalent as a “relationship with Jesus” but you have most likely heard it at some point. Again, the point of these posts are not to be critical of those who mean well but to encourage us to use better language when we communicate the truths [...]
(Mis)Understanding Cliches Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Something that has been bothering me a while is the language we use to communicate the truths of Christianity. Those common cliches. It bothers me because I hear them come out of my mouth and then ask myself, “Did that make any sense?” or “Where did we ever get that phrase?” “Did those words best [...]
New Original Song
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Our pastor has been teaching through 1 Corinthians for the past few months and I have really been pondering the implications of “the wisdom of this world”. I have been thinking about Paul’s words about the gospel and how heavy his words are about changing the content of the gospel. His words have been ringing [...]
