Oral Sex Within Marriage is Okey Dokey ::: Mark Driscoll
This is why I love Mark Driscoll. You get the same prophetic voice of “repent” of sexual sin, without all the legalism.
Beware Koobface! ::: facebook virus gone wild
Ryan Setliff
Information Services has recently been made aware of a new worm, called Koobface, that is being spread through Facebook. The worm spreads by sending notes to a user’s friends from an infected computer. The note directs users to a website where they are asked to download a program that claims to be an update to Adobe’s Flash player. If the user downloads this update, their computer will become infected. Please use caution when downloading any content from websites.
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Negotiation? “Nah,” says Mark Dever ::: the abortion debates
Al Mohler:
I reject the argument put forth by those who say we should now just step back and accept legal abortion on demand as a permanent reality and move on.
My friend Mark Dever put that argument in its place in his comments included in the article:
“It’s like saying, ‘Let’s work to make sure they kill fewer Jews in the concentration camps this year,”‘ said the Rev. Mark Dever, a pastor in Washington D.C.
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My c••l friend Sarah Ignacio (see picture), who is currently working on her Masters of Biblical Counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary, the sister of Jonathan Ignacio (The Crimson Window) pointed me to iamsecond.com. At first I was just intrigued, but then I watched Brian Welch’s talk.
Unbelievable. Powerful. Real. Creative. Genius. In a word … Quality.
One of the most basic ways to proclaim the gospel and engage the culture is to simply use the methods of cultural communication common in that culture. I get so sick of hearing that the church doesn’t need to market the gospel, or doesn’t need to have clever marketing strategies for the sake of the gospel. It’s a dangerous confusion of serious proportions to speak that way. It’s tantamount to saying that the church doesn’t need to use the common cultural avenues of communication for the sake of the gospel. In the North American culture, multi-media dominates the attention of the people. It is the air we breathe. If we don’t engage it for the sake of the gospel, we either are embarrassingly out of touch or don’t care.
Spread the word.
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Did Nicholas of Cusa Teach Sola Fide? ::: justification debates
Tim Enloe entitled his post, “Nicholas of Cusa on Justification by Faith Alone,” giving me the impression that he thinks the Reformation doctrine sola fide was taught 30 years before Martin Luther by Nicholas of Cusa. Unfortunately, it appears to me to be a misunderstanding (read my comments in the thread). It really all depends on what you mean by sola fide, what you mean by justification, what you mean by faith alone, and how you understand the nature of justifying righteousness, whether you distinguish between present and future justification, etc. The doctrine of justification was not articulated exactly the same way by all the famous Reformers during the Reformation (read: they didn’t believe the same thing), although it was crystalized later in orthodox creeds. Much confusion surrounds the debates about sola fide and historical investigation is usually highjacked by people with noticeable agendas other than historical objectivity (and this is human nature).
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::: The New Anglican Church :::
In cased you missed it, the Anglican Church has been debating the ordination of openly gay Anglican priests. After so much debate, a large group has decided to go ahead and just make their own, New Anglican Church. We’ll see how it plays out.
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Many well known bloggers are moving to belief.net. Scot McKnight. Tony Jones.
A well known Muslim blogger, Aziz, posts his thoughts about the attacks in India.
Feel Blog reports that Rick Warren like’s Matthew Elliot’s new book Feel. If you haven’t read it yet … you need to.
Celucien L. Joseph calls for bloggers to post about Racial Reconciliation. Why not? It’s an important part of God’s new creation, the new humanity. Big deal.
Just for laughs, check out the Elf dances from the Emergent guys on The Crimson Window.
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