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If you aren’t at least somewhat familiar with the recent controversy over T. D. Jakes, James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, and the Elephant Room, you’ve probably been hibernating in a cave somewhere. Others have given helpful responses from various perspectives including ecclesiastical separation, unity, Continue Reading

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Pre-Evangelizing Your Children

The first and greatest commandment is followed by a commandment to teach children to do the same (Deut 6:4-9). Our goal as Christian parents should be nothing less than to help shape our children so that they will, by grace, become ardent lovers of God. We have said this happens not merely by telling our [...]

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I’m currently reading Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy and plan to share some quotes over the coming weeks. From the preface, here is the first.

The message of this book does not grow out of these times but it is appropriate to them. It is called forth by a condition which has [...]

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This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Toward a Biblical Understanding of Culture

Last time I argued that the contemporary idea of “culture” came to being within discussions of modern anthropology It was in this anthropological climate that the missional idea of culture took shape. Charles H. Kraft acknowledges that the missional idea of culture draws from cultural anthropology: “When it comes to the analysis of such cultural [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Public Worship and Private Worship

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We have been offering reasons why public worship is better than private. Public worship is the gathered, corporate worship of a local church. Private worship includes times of informal worship apart from the church: small groups, private Bible study and prayer, and family worship. Sometimes Christians today offer [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Pre-Evangelizing Your Children

If we want our children to love and embrace the ‘ facts’ of the gospel, we need to step back and think about how children gain their knowledge.

Modernism likes to see itself as interested in only ‘objective facts’. For modernism, the keys to understanding the world are a good microscope, telescope or any other [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Toward a Biblical Understanding of Culture

Historically, Continue Reading