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The term “conservative” gets thrown around a lot, but do people really know what it means?

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Recovering Intentional Worship by David de Bruyn

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Missions and Music Contextualizing the Gospel

A blog series from Religious Affections Ministries.

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Jesus Christ as the Fulfillment of OT Worship

On June 1, 2011 By
This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Worship in Hebrews

Significant discontinuities exist between OT and NT worship, and it is important to note that each of these cases of discontinuity stems from the author of Hebrews’ primary discontinuity, that of the physical vs. the metaphysical. Human prophets, a mediator, priests, animal sacrifices, and a Temple each represent physical realties that Hebrew worshipers could see, [...]

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Finding common ground in the missions debate

On January 6, 2011 By
This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

Here’s the reality: those of us blogging here fully realize that our positions are not popular. Not popular, I suppose, greatly underestimates the matter: for many Christians today, our positions are not even fathomable—it is impossible for them to believe that anyone could hold a position as outlandish, and even as offensive, as ours. And [...]

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Sola Scriptura and Form: What I’m Not Saying

On November 18, 2010 By
This entry is part of 4 in the series Sola Scriptura and Form

The purposes and positions of Religious Affections (the ministry and blog, not [necessarily] the book) are not obscure; this granted, I expect that our readers are primed to hear the strains of grinding axes in all our posts. Everything we say looks like a camel’s nose in your tent. You have the gnawing suspicion that [...]

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Sola Scriptura and Form: Biblical Form

On November 11, 2010 By
This entry is part of 4 in the series Sola Scriptura and Form

In this discussion, I am using the term form, quite broadly, to denote those features of the biblical text that express (in additional to their propositional content) a mood or manner about the propositional content. This means, therefore, that I am not using form in any sort of strict literary sense. Let me explain why [...]

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Sola Scriptura and Form: Theology as a Problem

On November 4, 2010 By
This entry is part of 4 in the series Sola Scriptura and Form

In the first post of this series, I offered this thesis: “because the Bible is itself expressed in certain forms, and because the Bible is our final authority for faith and practice, we have an obligation to mirror biblical forms in our own expression of biblical truth.” I will continue this practice of clearly stating [...]

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Sola Scriptura and Form: Introduction

On October 28, 2010 By
This entry is part of 4 in the series Sola Scriptura and Form

Dr. Matt Olson, president of Northland International University, opened a recent sermon on music thus:

“What about the music? You know, it’s interesting, as we dive into this discussion: I don’t find one verse in the entire New Testament that addresses the style of music, and that’s usually where [...]

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Review: Elegy for Trains by Benjamin Myers

On October 26, 2010 By

Benjamin Myers
Elegy for Trains
Village Books Press
ISBN Number: 978-0-9818680-6-6

Over the last quarter century, poetry has done some rather public soul searching.  Poets and critics alike have spilled gallons of ink (both actual and virtual) on whether poetry does—or can—still matter and why.  Naysayers [...]

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