DYNAMICS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE:
An Evangelical Theology of Renewal
By
Richard F. Lovelace
The goal toward which many Christians in both the Catholic and Protestant communions are striving today is ecclesia reformata simper reformanda, a reformed church always reforming. The Puritans and Pietists rediscovered a truth which is clear in the Augustinian tradition: the pre-condition of perpetual reformation is … Read More
Don’t Waste Your Life
by
John Piper
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me the newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist.(p. 19)
I was stunned at the gamesmanship in the scholarly world as authors used all their … Read More
DOCTRINE: What Christians Should Believe
by
Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
…The Trinity is one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons – Father, Son, and Spirit – who are each fully and equally God in eternal relation with each other. (p. 13)
Modalism teaches that God is successively Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; he is not simultaneously Father, … Read More
DECISION MAKING GOD’S WAY
Gary T. Meadors
Epistemology is the study of the sources, nature, and validity of knowledge. (p. 20)
Philosophers recognize four ways that we know what we know. These include sense perception, reason, authority, and intuition. (p. 20)
Children need fences and space to develop. God the Father set the original model by providing Adam with … Read More
DEADLY EMOTIONS
Understanding the MIND-BODY-SPIRIT Connection that can HEAL or DESTROY you
By
Don Colbert, M.D.
As a nation, we in the United States of America consume five billion tranquilizers, five billion barbiturates, three billion amphetamines, and sixteen thousand tons of aspirin every year. (p. ix)
People wha have this addiction [stress hormone] become so consumed with … Read More
CULTURE SHIFT
BY
R. Albert Mohler Jr
…Radcons,” a short compound for “radical conservatives.”
p. 9
This is the “justificatory principle” now discussed in law schools, which states that any restriction on human conduct must be socially mandated by the political process on purely secular grounds. (p. 19)
Christian Morality and Public Law – … Read More
Cultivating a Life for God
Neil Cole
(Church Smart)
Currently the US is the fifth largest unchurched nation in the world with over 187 million Americans who remain untouched by the gospel.
Churches lose 2,765, 000 people each year and between 3500 and 4000 churches close their doors each year for the last time ; while only … Read More
COUNTERFEIT GODS
by
TIMOTHY KELLER
A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living. (p. xviii)
Many look to these things for the hope, meaning, and fulfillment that only God can provide. (p. xix)
What many people call “psychological problems” are simple issues of … Read More
CHRIST & CULTURE REVISITED
by
D. A. CARSON
… Clifford Geertz combines succinctness and clarity: “[T]he culture concept…denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.” (p. 2)
Christianity can be tolerated, provided … Read More
CAN MAN LIVE WITHOUT GOD
by
Ravi Zacharias
One of the most telling examples is our view of truth. In the 1960s, 65 percent of Americans said they believed the Bible is true; today that figure has dropped to 32 percent. Even more dramatically, today 67 percent of all Americans deny that there’s any such thing as truth. Seventy … Read More