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Just Asking
Here is a video that has been making the rounds lately. I have to admit, normally this kind of thing wouldn’t make so much as a blip on my own radar. True, one kind of revivalist publicly exposing another kind … Continue reading
Posted in Irony, Prosperity Gospel, Videos
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Thesis Thursday
For a special Friday edition of Thesis Thursday, we look at Lecture 36, when we consider the back half of… Thesis XXII. In the eighteenth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when a false distinction is made … Continue reading
Calvin the Cessationist
We have sought nothing else these twenty-five years [roughly the time since Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, 31 Oct./1 Nov. 1517] but that the whole conflict should be ended in such a way that the victory should not fall to men, but … Continue reading
Posted in Calvin, Prosperity Gospel, Quotes
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Christ as Crutch
In a recent podcast interview with Covenant Radio about Gospel-Driven Life, there’s a great moment where Horton addresses the popular conception (which I certainly grew up with) that when Christians are accused of relying on Christianity as a crutch, they … Continue reading
A Prosperity By Any Other Name
It has been noted before that many Reformed, along with the general population of religionists and non-religionists, seem to have the idea that legalism is about substance use and worldly amusement. But in the same way, Reformed also seem … Continue reading
All Your Reformings Are Belong To Us
Does the WHI redesign seem to anybody else to be a little, um, transformational? And with the latest episode right up there titled “The Narcissism Epidemic”, the whole page almost looks like a self-parody. [Update: 9/18] I talked to Horton … Continue reading
The Prosperity of Frugality
It is an ancient art. Its practice has been recorded as far back as the time of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates (about 399 B.C.). Its nurture, or neglect, has influenced the rise and fall of nations and civilizations. … Continue reading
Theologies of Glory versus Theology of the Cross, Part Three: Spiritualism
Having imbibed on the moralist gospel and found it not a little wanting, savvy sinners either hunker back down in their La-z-boys or they just can’t shake the sense that something is yet yanking on their souls. Though it … Continue reading
The gospel of gospel: Just-As-I-Am Syndrome
It seems a mark of this present age to be one that is perplexing, contradictory and even flat-out false. The Church seems no less vulnerable than the world to such confusion and befuddlement. The more time marches on the … Continue reading
Posted in Law/Gospel Distinction, Prosperity Gospel
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Theologies of Glory versus Theology of the Cross, Part Three: Spiritualism
Having imbibed on the moralist gospel and found it not a little wanting, savvy sinners either hunker back down in their La-z-boys or they just can’t shake the sense that something is yet yanking on their souls. Though it depends … Continue reading
Posted in Prosperity Gospel, Reformed Confessionalism
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Theologies of Glory versus Theology of the Cross, Part Two: Moralism
In Part One, I suggested that American religion can essentially be broken down into two expressions, moralism or spiritualism (or both). Granted, that is an over-simplification of sorts. But however vulnerable to a thousand qualifications, I think it is useful … Continue reading
Posted in Prosperity Gospel, Reformed Confessionalism
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Moralism and Spiritualism: Theologies of Glory versus Theology of the Cross, Part One
Writer and art critic Robert Hofler of Variety magazine recently said that while American stage is primarily about expression, art and talent, American film is more or less really only about two things, as the title of the recent film … Continue reading
Posted in Prosperity Gospel, Reformed Confessionalism
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Forum
I’m not too interested in tonight’s Presidential town hall to be moderated by Rick Warren at Saddleback Church, I just want to hear a few sound-bites and read a few headlines afterward. But the pre-forum rumblings have me wondering if … Continue reading
Who Wrote This?
UPDATED below You know how it goes, you’re searching for one thing and you find something else. Well, I found this quote without even looking for it:
Whatever Happened to Sanctification (or Mortification, or Vivification or Glorification)? Or Strange Days Indeed…Most Peculiar, Mama!
John Lennon famously sang that, “Everybody’s talking and no one say a word; always something happening and nothing going on; there’s always something cooking and nothing in the pot; everybody’s running and no one makes a move; everybody’s flying … Continue reading
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