Change is not outside-in or inside-out. It’s outside-up.

To change internally through external acts can be flesh. But to change externally through internal devotions can be just as flesh-ly. Conversely, the external application of word and sacrament can have a wonderful effect internally. And an internal resolve to look away to Christ can brilliantly impact your externals. Neither outside-in nor inside-out is the [...]

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Loved, Decorated, Rotting

That is Adam’s race.  Cut off from its LifeSource.  It flourishes for a while.  It can look and smell good.  We can dress it up with all kinds of bling.  We can surround it with feasting and fun.  But there’s no life in it.  It’s decaying by the minute.  And it’s end is the rubbish [...]

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Trinity and Homosexuality – Doug Wilson

God created us male and female, in the image of God He created us (Gen. 1:27). Those theologians who say they are all about the Trinity, who at the same time say the homosexual heresy is no big deal, are missing one of the central places where God has decided to reveal His nature and [...]

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Who sounds sillier – Stephen Baldwin or Richard Dawkins?

Stephen Baldwin has been ridiculed for his comments on Celebrity Big Brother regarding evolution.  He said: If we’re descended from apes, how come there are still apes? Ok, a misunderstanding of the theory.  But is the theory more or less silly than the misunderstanding? Here’s Richard Dawkins answering the very objection Baldwin makes.  See if [...]

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We’ve got the whole world in our hands

Walking through a London train station yesterday I had to weave my way through hundreds of protestors.  Their favourite placard seemed to be this one: photo from here The message reads: Our climate is in our hands.  And at least 20 000 gathered in the capital to remind us of this: we’ve got the whole [...]

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Larry Crabb conference notes – 2

Some more thoughts from Crabb’s School of Spiritual Direction… Image of God: Crabb very strong on ‘male and female’ being integral to image.  The united plurality of humanity imaging the trinity.  But he first unpacks image according to four aspects: Personal being – longing Rational being – believing Volitional being – choosing Emotional being – [...]

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Application – the evangelical cure-all

  Like coathangers, we own a hundred bibles but have no idea how they came to be ours.  One of them is called a “Life Application Bible.”  As far as I can tell, it exists in order to footnote every biblical indicative so that a moral imperative may be added.  This is, we are assured, [...]

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The resurrection came also by a man

It’s common to hear people speak of the death of Jesus as simply according to His human nature.  This is insisted upon because it is assumed that His ‘divine nature’ could have nothing to do with death.  It’s less common to hear the same people trumpeting the resurrection as simply according to His human nature.  [...]

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