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I’ve experienced sin, and I’ve read the lives of sinners talking about their sins, and I’ve read Genesis 3’s beautiful account and I’ve read the prodigal son’s sins, but I don’t think there is anything in the Bible that plumbs the depth of rebellion like Psalm 10:3-11. Here’s what the faithless person looks like, with…

This last week I (RJS – not Scot) have spent my commute listening to the audio from the Wheaton Theology Conference: Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright. This is fascinating stuff – I highly recommend it. This next week or so I am going to take a break…

 In this series I’m asking Andy Stanley some questions about preaching but I’m cheating when I say that: I’m reading his book (Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication ) and generating my questions that he answers in his book. OK, you are you; Andy is Andy; John Ortberg is John Ortberg; Fleming Rutledge…

Here are words, and both Psalm 9 and 10 can be read after the jump, that many feel, that many want to say, that many are afraid to say, especially in public, that the psalmist says and with eloquence and genuine emotion: 9:19 Rise up, Lord! Don’t let men be defiant! May the nations be judged in…

This letter comes from a reader, and it’s a good framing of a vital way of approaching the homosexual debate in the church. The essence of it is this: if polygamy was wrong and polygamists both remained within the people of God and were even seen as super saints (like Abraham or David), why not…

This book proposes a “new city commons” and it does on the basis of a singular text in Jeremiah. James Davison Hunter, in his new book, (To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World ), suggests that Jeremiah 29:4-7 offers a 4th Way, a way beyond Right…

Right over our fence in our neighbor’s yard. There are five of them, and this one walked right up to me. Cool. Click on the photo and you can see those eyes.  

We are reading and blogging about James Davison Hunter’s proposals about how to change culture, and another book came our way leading me to this claim: it is as difficult to change culture as it is to manufacture a revival. The book that came our way is by Mark Shaw and is called Global Awakening:…
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