Seeking Self or Costly Discipleship?
by David T. KoyzisIf something like ISIS/ISIL were to overrun much of North America, would we be willing to give up our lives for the sake of a gospel so fixated on the self and its needs? Continue Reading »
If something like ISIS/ISIL were to overrun much of North America, would we be willing to give up our lives for the sake of a gospel so fixated on the self and its needs? Continue Reading »
(Please read my previous post first, if you haven’t.) Try to follow me here: Christianity, I was arguing, necessarily implies an ambivalence towards any moral-political culture. On the one hand, it reinforces much conventional moral content by declaring it to be the object of a divine . . . . Continue Reading »
The essence of Christianity is to love one another, to have compassion, not to judge, but to forgive, to accept no? Applied to politics, the implication seems obvious: unlimited tolerance, equality of lifestyles, etc: in a word, extreme liberalism. Whats wrong with this picture? . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Fellow Christian who Continues to Toy with Voting for the Democratic Party, I wish I could honestly say that this fellow, a black church leader whose video is highlighted in this Big Government post , was essentially wrong. But, alas, he isn’t. (Yes, his use of the Bible to back a . . . . Continue Reading »
Having written one , two , three , four ALMOST FAMOUS-driven posts and now this one, I obviously do think it is an excellent film. Its one weakness is a certain complacency, underlined by its ending. I dont have a problem with happy endings per se, but the one it provides really is too easy. . . . . Continue Reading »
It is no secret that the USA is the most charitable country in the world. Why? Well, we can be, but Dan Palotta of the WSJ points to tradition through our Puritan heritage and says charity was their response to the tensions within their doctrine, “they could do penance for their . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Kimberly Hyatt of Patheos asked why Christians are mean in “Look at the Christians: See How Mean They Are” . “Perhaps it is past time for us to stop focusing on what others are doing or trying to do and start taking responsibility for our own actions and their . . . . Continue Reading »
by Frank TurkSo you know: Pack a lunch.And before you read a single word of this post, I require of you that you read this post, by me, regarding this essential conflict involved in talking about this topic. If you do not read that post, and you want to reproach me about my post here, I will simply . . . . Continue Reading »
I hate to admit it, but God built me up to be a blogger. I’m really at my best when I am at 3 pages or less in final content (about 1500 words) and I try to stick to one subject — even by analogy.Kevin DeYoung may be my fellow blogger here at Evangel, but he’s not really a blogger. . . . . Continue Reading »
So we’re at the place where we can say a couple-four things from the existential side of the problem of evil:[1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say “people”) have an urge to do something about it when we see it.[2] that urge . . . . Continue Reading »