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The Sacrament of Work
We have separated Christian work between the secular and the sacred. There are ordinary Christians with normal jobs and then there are the “really spiritual” Christians who are pastors or missionaries. We have the idea that to be truly spiritual we must have a full-time profession in a job that has spiritual undercurrents throughout it. [...]
Posted in Christian Life, Theology
Tagged protestant work ethic, sacrament, secular job, work
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Missional Church
Check out this video. It was posted on a blog that I visit, The Reformed Renegade.
Posted in Christian Life, The Church, Theology
Tagged church, evangelism, missional, missions
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Monasticism as the Pre-Reformation
Spiritual reformation has been present throughout the history of the Christian church. It would be an error to think that those within the church were not seeking to turn away from the excesses around them and return to the principles of Christ until 1517 with Martin Luther. Even when looking at Israel we see the [...]
Posted in Christian Life, History, Society, The Church
Tagged anthony, benedict, francis, luther, monasticism, pre-reformation, reformation, st.
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Wordpress Updated
Well, after many hours of tweaking, the blog is now updated with the latest version of Wordpress. There will be more changes working themselves out around the site, but for now I am just glad that everything is working and all my posts aren’t deleted.
Book Review: Faith for All Seasons
The one thing that is nice about formal theological training is that your coursework requires you to purchase books in a variety of religious topics; many of which you are glad to add to your library. There are some duds that you will never pick up again but every so often you get one that [...]
Sola Fide Part 2: Where does Faith come from?
This is the second of a two part post, to read the first part click here
Where does faith then come from? We have seen that faith does not come from oneself and thus any notion of a person simply “believing more” is ridicules. Faith finds its origin and completion fully and only from Christ. “Looking [...]
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Tagged belief, doubt, faith, fide, reason, reformers, sola
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Sola Fide Part 1: What Is Faith?
Faith is an interesting concept, one that most people seem to be quite confused about. We hear constantly about faith vs. reason, as if there is a contradiction in terms. Some see faith as simply whatever silly thing it is that you wish to believe in and has been made into a platitude with little [...]
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Tagged belief, doubt, faith, fide, reason, reformers, sola
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What is Heresy?
Those who get into as many theological discussions as I do know of quite a few conversations that have involved the term “heresy” and less so the term “apostate.” Unfortunately, most people don’t use these terms properly, often they don’t know that those words mean anything other than something to call someone who you do [...]
Posted in Christian Life, The Church, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged apostasy, apostate, creeds, heresy, heretic, heterodoxy, orthodoxy
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Wow, Internet Explorer Sucks
So I just spent about half an hour fixing my post “What Youth Ministry Isn’t” because it would not render correctly in IE. It rendered completely fine in Firefox, Opera, and even in the Google Chrome beta, but not in IE7. And the clincher of it all, is that the problem was that I copy [...]
I had a Lapsarian in Judgement
Within Calvinist theology there is an issue known as lapsarianism, which deals with the eternal decrees that God made regarding the fall of mankind. The two main views of this are called supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism. Historically the only confessions to contain a stance have been partial to the infra view, however, none have condemned a [...]
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Tagged calvinist, decrees, eternal, foundations, infralapsarianism, lapsarianism, supralapsarianism, the fall
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