JOLLYBLOGGER: “When God wanted to redeem a people He didn’t save us through a philosophy or a bunch of ideas. He saved us through a person, a flesh and blood person. Incarnational ministry that is modeled on Christ is an ‘en-fleshed’ ministry. The Christian faith is very much a ‘fleshly’ religion. Jesus took our sins in His body and suffered in His body. He commands us to love one another and demonstrates how to love by washing the feet of... Read more
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SmartChristian urges his presumably American readers to stand with European Christians. Well I am a European believe it or not (despite what some of my countrymen would say!) and you can stand with me…….. Read more
Guidelines for Christian Bloggers are available in a pdf form actually its an article about journalism that is honouring to Christ but it does apply to bloggers. Read more
JOLLYBLOGGER begins a debate on Infant Baptism following on from the gauntlet I laid down which itself forms part of the debate on the simple gospel with a surprising admission: “At the outset I will admit that our practice of infant baptism is a theologically derived doctrine that is justified as a deduction that is a ‘good and necessary consequence’ from Scripture. The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 1, paragraph 6 says: The whole counsel of God concerning all things... Read more
In a classic mistake worthy of a blog newbie (yes I know I cant claim that I am a blog newbie any more!) I didnt check if the name The Decablog was already in use. Since it is, 10 Christian Blogs will drop the add-on description “a decablog”. I apologise for any inconvenience caused. Read more
Marketing Playbook: has a quote from the Toby on the West Wing that I was just watching on my sickbed, “Was watching a re-run of West Wing and was struck by some stuff that my favorite character, Toby Ziegler said about oratory. He called it the Science of Listener Attention. ‘You want the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper. Food is cheaper, clothes are cheaper, steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper, phone service is cheaper. You feel me building... Read more
John Piper again: “Few things give lively comfort and lionhearted courage like the truth that Christ has fulfilled for me the demands made on me by the law of God. I am still trying to plumb the personal depths of Romans 7:4 for what it means about my dead-to-the-law relationship with Jesus Christ: Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been... Read more
John Piper exmplains the gospel in wonderful transactional language. I will try to show that Christ has become our substitute in two senses: in his suffering and death he becomes our curse and condemnation (Galatians 3:13; Romans 8:3). And in his suffering and life he becomes our perfection (2 Corinthians 5:21). On the one hand, his death is the climax of his atoning sufferings, which propitiate the wrath of God against us (Romans 3:24-25); on the other hand, his death... Read more
Piper said it right “Thousands are living on borrowed faith. We are living off the dividends, as it were, of intellectual and doctrinal investments made by pastors and church leaders from centuries ago. But the central bank of the Bible was not meant to fund future generations merely on the investments of the past. They are precious, and I draw on them daily. Everyone does, even those who don’t know it. But without our own investments of energy in the... Read more
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