christianity

Glenn Beck & the Christian Church (Part 2)

March 16, 2010

Continued from yesterday’s post. While I agree that the N.T. has no plan for governmental action, the statement that it does not call us to action is patently false! Matthew 25:34-40 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you [...]

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Glenn Beck & the Christian Church (Part 1)

March 15, 2010

I’ve been holding out on posting this until I was chill out a bit and think about it without simply ranting. I think I’m there today, helped by a link posted by a friend(/mentor/coworker/boss). Albert Mohler: Glenn Beck, Social Justice, and the Limits of Public Discourse Mohler does a good job of weighing out the [...]

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Re-Blog “The Difference Between Christianity and Buddhism”

February 25, 2010

The Desiring God Blog had a post yesterday about this topic, I’d suggest you go and read it there, I’m just going to include the quote that they quoted in it. Indeed, Buddhism teaches the aim of emptying the self of all desire. As [Stephen] Prothero observes, “Buddhists observe that suffering arises from a 12-fold [...]

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Christian Defense of Socialism

April 3, 2008

I read this article on a Christian defense (not a proposal of it necessarily) of Socialism. But let us pretend, just for a moment, that I am calling for full blown socialism. I don’t think I am, but let’s just pretend. Is that the worst thing that could happen? Would that be un-American? Unbiblical? Let’s [...]

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I Hate the Emerging Church

March 25, 2008

Last night I was catching up on my feed reader and came across a link to this humorous post called You Might Be Emerging If… The post is quite funny, and to be honest it doesn’t bring up a contention with the Emergent movement within the church as much as people’s “need” to draw lines [...]

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