Sanctification has always been an interesting, yet somewhat confusing topic for me. It is interesting for me because as a child my impression of sanctification was flawed. Whether I just had a flawed view myself or if it came from poor teaching I am not sure, but to me sanctification consisted of simply trying harder [...]
Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
May 27, 2011
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Must Watch: John Piper Interviews Rick Warren
By Brian in TheologyFor some of us theological geeks, this interview has been a long time coming. John Piper sits down for a deep theological discussion with Rick Warren. It is wide ranging and very, very good. No matter your opinion on these men and their ministries, you will gain from watching this.
April 22, 2011
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The Best Friday
By Brian in TheologyGrowing up Baptist I only had the faintest idea of Good Friday. I knew that it was the day Jesus died, I knew that Catholics went to Mass (although there were few of them around) and I knew that Easter was coming Sunday and that was the main event. If there was a service at my church [...]
Tags: cross, easter, good-friday, Jesus
March 16, 2011
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Rob Bell owned by Martin Bashir of MSNBC
By Brian in TheologyRob Bell is making the media tour promoting his latest heresy and he was recently on MSNBC. I don’t think he expected to have to answer serious questions from someone who knows what they are talking about.
September 23, 2010
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Piper: Exulting in Our Tribulations
By Brian in TheologySo, my best friend called me up about my last blog post. As he commented on the post, he thought it seemed a bit dark and was a bit worried I guess – which was strange to me because I really viewed the prayer I posted as a prayer of hope and of ultimate redemption in [...]
Tags: end-times, hope, Piper, sermon, tribulations
August 23, 2010
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Adjusting the Gospel: Evangelicals Have Failed Our Generation
By Brian in TheologyThis past weekend I was in Oklahoma City to visit my best friend for his birthday and to see some family. I had two different experiences that have gotten me thinking deeply about one way the Evangelical, Bible belt culture that my generation (those born in the late ’70s-early ’80s) grew up in has failed [...]
Tags: gospel, henderson-hills, Newkirk, politics, teaching
August 6, 2010
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What is Driving the Resurgence of Reformed Theology in Evangelicalism?
By Brian in TheologyThe religious portal patheos.com is running a deep series on the future of Evangelicalism. I have not previously heard of this site, which focuses on covering the basics of all religions, but the authors and thinkers enlisted in this series lends it a lot of credibility in my mind. Check out the whole series here (it’s [...]
Tags: DeYoung, evangelicalism, Hansen, movements, Taylor, theology
April 24, 2010
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The Convincing Argument: Why I Accepted Calvin’s View of Predestination
By Brian in TheologyI had struggled with the doctrines of Calvinism for years. One of my good friends and mentor had been convincingly and faithfully pursuing me and engaging me intellectually on predestination, but I simply had a stumbling block around free will. I’m sure its the most common issue at heart, but I just could not get [...]
Tags: austin-stone, Carter, predestination, Reformed Theology
March 30, 2010
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Mark Driscoll on Legalism and Religion
By Brian in TheologyGreat sermon this past Sunday from Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle on legalism. It was very convicting, both for the part of me that is a Pharisee and the part of me that is a reverse legalist. I’d suggest a download is worth your time.
Tags: Driscoll, legalism, pharisees, reverse-legalism
March 29, 2010
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More press for the New Calvinism
By Brian in TheologyThe ‘New Calvinism’ is starting to be talked about more in the media. Newsweek wrote about the movement back in . There is the great (short) book Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists by Collin Hansen, and now the Christian Science Monitor takes a good look at one church in Washington, [...]
Tags: election, Reformed Theology, sbc
