February 2005

Bloggers for Terry Schiavo

February 20, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER -on Terry Schiavo As usual David has covered this one rather well.

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Sharing links around and how things have changed…….

February 19, 2005

Sometimes you just cant win…… Parableman has vigourously defended Christian bloggers against the charge that we are deceiving the Ecosystem. His reasoning is clear- there is no doubt whatsoever that nothing that we are doing is against either the spirit or the letter of the ecosystems guidelines. The fact that the TLB actually hosts the [...]

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The Complex Gospel?!

February 19, 2005

Blogotional: says taht the gospel is actually as complex as the character of God! He goes on That is a very simple answer with extraordinarily complex implications. The ‘simple gospel’ discussion is about a starting point for a life-long and utterly transforming journey. The simple gospel is a description of ‘enough’ to convince someone and [...]

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Be nice to my wife…….

February 19, 2005

Abigail Brayden: actually likes every point of my wifes simple gospel! “His wife has done a great job with this. Afterall, kids deserve to know about salvation as much, if not more, then the rest of us, but we can’t just throw a Bible at them and expect them to read it and figure it [...]

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The nine point gospel?

February 19, 2005

Agent Tim: accepts all but one of my wifes simple gospel points. This discussion is going to go ON and ON I can see……

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The life-changing gospel

February 19, 2005

Blogotional: Transforming Christianity: “I have long been of the opinion that the church at large sells itself short when it offers only salvation. Christ’s mission was one of transformation. John 10:10 – ‘The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.’ When [...]

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A Question of the Gospel

February 19, 2005

Rebecca Writes:: “Question: Is there a sense in which ‘declaring the whole counsel of God’ is the same thing as teaching the gospel? (I would base this question on Paul saying that it is because he had declared the whole counsel of God to the Ephesians that he would be innocent of their blood” My [...]

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Speak the whole gospel in love

February 18, 2005

Smart Christian is questioning those who want to hone the gospel down to its mere essentials and argues there is a danger in preaching a “reduced gospel”. I am with him on this. I understand why some would want to say that the gospel is only about personal salvation, it seems much easier when we [...]

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Feed them bible truth: modern preaching critiqued

February 18, 2005

John Piper: To begin with, the older I get, the less impressed I am with flashy successes and enthusiasms that are not truth-based. Everybody knows that with the right personality, the right music, the right location, and the right schedule you can grow a church without anybody really knowing what doctrinal commitments sustain it, if [...]

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The simple gospel saves marriages

February 17, 2005

John Piper asks, what if one or both partners in a marriage become overwhelmed by the grace of God and say I will no longer think merely interms of whether my expectations are met in practice. I will, forChrist’s sake, regard my wife (or husband) the way God regardsme complete and accepted in Christ and [...]

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A Third Testament -by Malcolm Muggeridge

February 17, 2005

Something else to add to my list of books to read online for nought…..(HT David Wayne) The Bruderhof Foundation – A Third Testament – Malcolm Muggeridge: “A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky Based on an acclaimed TV series, this illuminating collection of portraits brings to [...]

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Bloggers and the media

February 17, 2005

Mediasoul has launched her new business today- connecting the media with bloggers who will review their stuff. I wonder how media will take bloggers honesty- what if I am given a book to review on emerging church and totally diss it? Will I get another one? Will they realise that dissing something gives other bloggers [...]

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Obstacles to the gospel winning souls

February 17, 2005

Spurgeon lists the reasons that hinder our efforts in preaching the gospel to win souls Indifference “I would far rather have a man an earnest, intense opposer of the gospel than have him careless and indifferent. ” Unbelief “These people are very hard to influence; but I would warn you not to fight them with [...]

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D.A.Carson papers on the gospel and the Openess of God heresy available online for free

February 17, 2005

Parableman points us to some newly available articles. These should do nicely to address certain neo-liberal issues- I hope I get a chance to read them at some point! This is what Jeremy had to say- “As I was looking through the lists of articles and book reviews, two pieces stood out as worth highlighting [...]

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New Christian Blog Showcase #1

February 17, 2005

Patriot Paradox is at it again! This new venture of his is well worth a look

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Christ our Righteousness

February 17, 2005

John Pipers book Counted Righteous receives some rave reviews at the beginning of the freely available PDF. I am glad to see that I am not the only one agitated about the attacks on the biblical doctrine of imputation of Christs righteousness (and by the converse the imputation to Christ of our sin) AS John [...]

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Sermons Likely to Win Souls

February 17, 2005

Spurgeon lists characteristics of sermons that are likely to be associated with salvation: sermons which are distinctly aimed at the conversion of the hearers. sermons that interest the hearers “The people will not be converted while they are asleep; and if they go to sleep, they had better have been at home in bed, where [...]

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Is the TNIV Good News?

February 16, 2005

Mark Roberts is addressing the thorny issue of the TNIV in one of his excelent protracted series. Not sure what blogging software he is using but it allows him to have a page for a series that updates itself as he posts more. So far he has explained some interesting points about translations and that [...]

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Disestablishment of the church of England should be back on the agenda

February 16, 2005

Why does it seem to take The Times to speak some sense about the CofE. I have been waiting for some honest commentary on the sticky issue of the C of E and the remarrying Prince who will one day be the head of the CofE. I have been waiting in vain until I saw [...]

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Gods not dead

February 16, 2005

God lives, as atheism dwindles. We always knew it wouldnt last.

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